236 General Notes. 



this bird was shot in September, 1878, on the banks of the Schuylkill, 

 below Philadelphia. I believe it is rather unusual for this species to be 

 taken so far inland. 



11. Mergulus alle. Little Auk; Dovekie. — A specimen of this 

 bird, now in my collection, was found in an exhausted condition in the early 

 part of December, 1878, in New Jersey, near Philadelphia, more than 

 sixty miles from the ocean. — Spencer Trotter, Philadelphia., Pa. 



[This specimen is refei-red to also in a note i-eceived from Mr. William 

 L. Collins, Frankford P. O., Philadelphia. He adds : " I am also in- 

 formed of another specimen in the possession of Professor E. D. Cope, 

 which was taken near Atlantic City, N. J., about the end of November, 

 1878. See also p. 228 of this number of the Bulletin. — Eds.] 



Nksting of the Kentucky Warbler {Oporornis formosa) in 

 Ohio. — Although the Kentucky AVarbler has long been a well-known 

 summer resident of Southwestern Ohio, its nest and eggs have hitherto 

 eluded the vigilant search of our local ornithologists, and have, in con- 

 sequence, been classed among their especial desiderata. As the nesting 

 habits of this species have been recorded in but a few instances, and only 

 once in Ohio,* a notice of a nest and eggs recently taken near Madisonville 

 may be of interest to readers of the Bulletin. 



The locality chosen for this nest was a gentle slope, well wooded and 

 covered with undergrowth, situated within a short distance of a small 

 woodland stream on the border of an open glade. The nest, which was 

 placed on the ground at the root of a small elm sapling, was concealed by 

 a sparse growth of weeds, and consisted of two distinct portions. The 

 foundation was a saucer-shaped mass of beech and maple leaves loosely 

 interwoven with a few weed stems, and retained its shape sufficiently well 

 to permit careful handling without injury ; surmounting this basal portion 

 was the nest proper, a rather bulky and inelegant structure, elliptical in 

 shape, composed of dark-brown rootlets and weed stems, with which were 

 interwoven a few dried leaves. There was also a trace of an effort at 

 horse-hair lining, a half-dozen hairs perhaps being disposed around its 

 intH-rior. Its measurements are as follows : — Internal long diameter, 2^ 

 inches ; internal short diameter, 2 inches ; depth of cavity, Ij inches ; 

 average thickness of nest proper, about f inch ; ditto of foundation, about 

 1 inch. The eggs, which are four in number (exclusive of the Cowbird's 

 egg which accompanies them), are oblong-oval in shape, spotted and 

 speckled everywhere with reddish-brown and lilac on a glossy white 

 ground, the markings on two specimens being massed at the larger end, 

 while those on the other two form a distinct " wreath " around the rather 



* By Dr. J. P. Kirtland. I am unable to refer to the original record at 

 present ; it is mentioned incidentally, however, by Dr. Brewer, in Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, Vol. I, p. 29.3. 



