46 General Notes. 



this conclusion as satisfactory, I should soon have forgotten the circum- 

 stance, had not the bird itself acted in such a manner as to dispel the illu- 

 sion. It flew before me, and alighted upon a tree far over on the other 

 side of the highway, where it croaked most dismally. When I had 

 reached the highway before climbing over the stone-wall, I noticed that 

 the Crow had again taken flight, and as it was flying somewhat in my 

 direction, I knelt behind the wall, hoping thus to obtain a shot. When 

 I ^ventured to look out, I saw the bird soaring in 'circles not far away. 

 Soon it approached me, but soaring very high in the air. When it got 

 directly overhead, I fired ; it fell to the ground, close beside me, reeling 

 and struggling violently all the distance. When I reached it I was both 

 surprised and delighted to find a fine female example of the Fish Crow. 

 This is, I believe, the most northerly record of the capture of this species 

 in the State, though they have been taken on Long Island, where my 

 friend, Mr. Theodore Rooseveldt, informed me he took a single specimen. 



2. Helminthophaga celata, (Say) Baird. On May 13, 1875, I shot a 

 beautiful male of this rare species, as it was skipping among the apple- 

 blossoms, close to my house, in company with a little band of Warblers 

 which may have belonged to the same species. 



3. Dendrceca caerulea, (Wilson) Baird. I secured a fine male of this 

 beautiful species, near my residence. May 17, 1875. 



4. Vireo philadelphicus, Cassin. I have a single male specimen of 

 this scarce species in my collection, taken near here. It was shot by my 

 friend, Mr. William K. Lente, at Cold Spring, as it ;hopped about in a 

 tree-top, September 24, 1875. This example exhibits the intensity of 

 yellow color on the under parts which characterizes the autumnal flu- 

 mage. 



5. Stelgidopteryx serripennis, (Audubon) Baird. I have found this 

 Swallow on but one occasion, in May, 1872, when a single pair nested in 

 this neighborhood, in a bank close to a stable, beside a pond. I watched 

 this pair while they constructed their nest, during which time they were 

 often seen to alight close together, on a board-fence from which they de- 

 scended after the rough materials of which the nest was composed, — hay 

 and feathers. Late in May I captured the female sitting upon four fresh 

 eggs. I had no difficulty in doing this, for the hole was quite large, and 

 not very deep, so that, by baring my arm, I could easily introduce it to 

 the back of the hole. These eggs are pure white, and one of them meas- 

 ures .80X.53 of an inch. 



6. Ampelis garrulus, Gmel. Dr. Frederic Lente, of Cold Spring, 

 showed me a beautiful Wax wing of this species which was shot near his 

 residence, several winters before. 



His son, Wm. K. Lente, informed me that he shot at several Bohemian 

 Waxwings that sat in an evergreen tree close to their house. This oc- 

 curred several years after the first specimen was taken. — Edgar A. 

 Meabns, Highland Falls, New York. 



