liS4 General Notes. 



Mr. Robert Lawrence has informed me of the interesting fact of this 

 species having bred about tlie same early date at Flushing, L I. [see below]. 

 So far as I am aware, this is the first record of its breeding on Long 

 Island, though I learn from Mr. Akhurst of Brooklyn, that in 1843 a pair 

 reared a brood of five young at Valley Grove. At Riverdale, the present 

 season, I observed this species in full song on A])ril 20 and May 6 ; and 

 Mr. Kellogg informs me that the male bird of the breeding pair remained 

 about his place in full song for at least two days after its nest had been 

 taken. — Eugkne P. Bickxell, Kiferdale, New York Citt/. 



The Great Carolina Wren breeding on Long Island, N. Y. — 

 In a letter recently received from Mr. Robert Lawrence, he informs me 

 that on Mav 8, 1879, he was fortunate (enough to take a female Great 

 Carolina .Wren at Flushing, Long Island, and on the following day saw 

 the male and a brood of four young birds just able to fly. Although 

 record of two captures of this Wren has been given for New York Island 

 by Mr. George N. Lawrence, I think this is the first record of its breed- 

 ing in that locality. — Ruthven Deane, Cambridge, Mass. 



Record of Additional Specimens of the White-throated 

 AVarrler {Helmitithophaga leucobrnnchialis). — In this Bulletin, Vol. Ill, 

 p. 199, Mr. William Brewster describes the fifth then known specimen 

 of the above-named Warbler. I can now announce three more, and allude 

 to what I presmne is a fourth : — 



1. A very typical example sliot by Mr. Samuel Jillson, in Hudson, 

 Mass., in May or June, 1858. By considerable correspondence I traced 

 this s[)ecimen to the collection of Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. 

 Prof. P. A. Chadbourne, without hesitation, very kindly sent it to me 

 for examination. The under surface is clean, silky white, with no trace 

 of yellow anywhere; back pure ashy. It was labelled " //. piiuis, male." 

 This capture antedates all but the Philadelphia Academy specimen, and 

 is the second Massachusetts occurrence. 



2. A male is in possession of William W. Coe of Portland, Conn., 

 taken there May 22, 1875, which I have b^-en able to handle by his 

 obligingly loaning me the bird. This one departs from what we consider 

 type specimens in the amount of yellow on both the upper and under parts. 

 There is a broad band or blotch of this color on the breast, with a slight 

 suffusion on the chin and the rest of the ventral aspect. The whole 

 dorsal plumage, from the crown, is faintly washed with the same tint. 

 Compare this and next with Mr. Brewster's account of E. I. Shores's Suf- 

 field, Conn., specimen, above alluded to. 



3. At date of penning these data the following comes from my friend 

 J. N. Clark, at Saybrook, Conn. : " Took a fine nuile //. Icucobronc/iinlis, 

 May 30 [1879] ; — an exceptional sj)ecimen, with a patch of bright yellow 

 across the breast from the bend of wings. Thought it was ]>inus when I 

 fired ; notes and habits the same." Mr. Clark's is the fourth for Con- 

 necticut. 



