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originally must have been mucli larger. It has worn away ravines some 

 thirty or forty feet deep ; in other places it has expanded into shallow 

 flats. The length of the stream is about three miles, and it runs in a ra- 

 vine through the very heart of our village, and empties into the Hudson. 

 The stream now is quite small, and the level places along the banks of the 

 upper portion are covered by weeds, ferns, and scanty undergrowth. The 

 woods which overhang the stream along its course, only broken now and 

 then by a field or pasture, are composed of large hemlock, oak, and chest- 

 nut trees, iinder which there is little undergrowth, and the rays of the sun 

 hardly penetrate their thick foliage, making a cool and shady retreat. 

 Here, this sj)ring and summer, seemed the very paradise for the Kentucky 

 Warbler. While collecting. May 21, I saw four flitting here and there 

 among the small plants, and secured two ; May 22 I collected four more ; 

 the 24th, four were seen, and I shot three ; the 27th, I saw two ; on the 29th, 

 a mile up the stream, I saw another, and my friend, Mr. Geoi-ge Hyles, 

 shot one still higher up. June 1 and 4 I saw a pair near where the first 

 ones were seen, and on the 20th of June found their nest containing five 

 young, which left it June 29. June 9, in a woods some miles distant, I 

 saw a male. June 26 I saw still another, and from its actions it must have 

 had a nest or young near, but from want of time I did not look for it. 

 July 5 a male came under my window, and, perching on a shrub, warbled 

 out his short but lovely song. The same day Mr. Hyles saw a male four 

 miles south of this place. Allowing the same ones were sometimes seen 

 twice, there have been at least sixteen individuals here, and undoubtedly 

 four nests. — A. K. Fisher, Sing Sing, N. Y. 



The Snow-Bird in Summer on Mount Wachusett. — Mr. Brad- 

 ford Torrey writes : "On the 8th of July (1878) I saw a pair of Snow- 

 Birds {Junco hyemalis) on the summit of Mount Wachusett, and, as I do 

 not find any mention of their breeding there either in the * History of 

 North American Birds ' or in Mr. Allen's ' Catalogue of the Birds of 

 Massachusetts,' I venture to send you this item, trusting that you will 

 overlook the seeming presumption if the fact is one well known." Al- 

 though there is, I think, no record of the presence in the breeding season 

 of the Snow-Bii-d on Mount Wachusett, it is well known to occur there 

 at that season, where it has been met with by Mr. Brewster and other 

 observers repeatedly during the last few years. The occurrence of an 

 isolated colony of these birds on Mount Wachusett seems well worthy of 

 record. — J. A. Allen, Cambridge, Mass. 



An Albino Anna Humming-Bird. — I had sent to me, July 10, 1878^ 

 a fine specimen of an albino Hummer of the species Calypte anna. It 

 was taken in San Rafael, Marin Co., Cal., by parties unknown to me. 

 The bird has the head, neck, and under parts bluish-white ; back and tail 

 with a pale creamy tint ; three longest feathers in upper tail-coverts pale 

 cinnamon ; bill and feet flesh-color ; eyes pinkish ; primaries and secon- 

 daries pure white ; eyelids with a creamy tinge. The bird was a young 



