,g J General Notes. 3^7 



chipping into another birch and also fell a victin,. but this was only a 

 male Prairie Warbler, and not the n,ale of my Baclnnan s. Ih.s bach- 

 ,nan's was also a male, the testes n.easuring Gh X 4-4 '-"• '1''- -^"S' ^« >" 

 ,he previous instance, seemed to come from the low bushes near the 

 ..round, while the bird was ten feet from the ground when shot 

 ° These two captures, I believe, extend the range of Bachman s Warbler 

 considerablv further north than was previously known, and make .1 p.o- 

 bable that it breeds not far from here, though perhaps not in tins unmed,- 

 ate vicinity I may add that I have searched for this species with great 

 'care since'capturing my first specimen but without any success except on 

 the second occasion of its capture and then I wasn't looking tor it.-C. b. 

 Brimley. Raleigh, N. C. 



Note on Mimocichla verriUorum.-In the last nun.ber of 'The Auk" 

 fVIII n ->i7) I described what was supposed to be a new spec.es of Ahm- 

 ociekiui^n. the Island of Don.inica, and assumed it to be the ^-^ record 

 of the genus for the Lesser Antilles. For the time being I had fo.got en 

 a recen' paper by Dr. P. L. Sclater (P. Z. S., 1S89, P- 3^6) giving a list 

 of the birds of Dominica, and recording therefrom a form of M.nocuMa. 

 called bv him M. arde^iaca albiventri.. I was unfortunately not reminded 

 of this paper till after the publication of my own, otherwise I should 

 doubtless have adopted Mr. Sclater's name for the species in question, al- 

 though he failed to point out some of the principal difterences distingmsh- 

 •Ig this form from i^s allies. Mr. Sclater says: "As might have been 

 expected, the Dominican ^//;«../c/./« belongs to the Porto R.can form It 

 is in tact, so nearly similar that I do not see suificient grounds formaking 

 it'specifically distinct. The only difference apparent is the ^^^ gi-.ater 

 whiteness of the belly in the Dominican species, whence those who adop 

 trinomials would, no doubt, call it Mtmocichla ardesiaea albtventrt.. As 

 In a later reference to it in the same paper he says : "Besides these heie 

 are two peculiar subspecies, namely Mimocichla ardcsiaca albtventrn, 

 etc., he evidently intended to recognize it as a subspecies. As the naine 

 «/L-;.«/./s- has priority by several months over verrilloru,n the species 

 wm stind as JimocillJalM.entris (Scl.), on the basis of ^ - charac^rs 

 „„ T A Attfm Am Mies. Nat. titst., ivea' 

 given in my former paper. —J. A. Allen, j^m. 



York City. 



The Robin Wintering at Godbout, Quebec. - 1 desire to place on record 

 what is to us here a most unusual occurrence, viz , the wintering of the 

 Robin iMerula mi^raioHa) on the north shore of the St. Lawrence On 

 looking over my notes on the species, extending over twelve years, I hnd 

 that th; latest bird previously seen was noted on Decembers; other years 

 fVom 3sth to 30th November. Arrivals in. the spring have been noted 

 n-oin April 18 to May 6. This year I kept recording their occurrence day 

 after day, always expecting that it was'going to be the last seen^ but they 



are here still (Feb. 4- 'SoO, and intend to ^^^y \'^f^^^^-J:;^yJZ 

 when the tid. falU, leaving tne rocks or some shoals bare, th.M Hock to 



