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blunt apex. They were far advanced in incubation (May 28tli), and 

 measure, respectively, .72 X .54, .73 X .56, .75 X .56, .73 X .55. Their 

 identification was perfectly satisfactory, the female being secured instantly 

 after being driven from the nest. — Frank W. Langdon, Madkonville, 

 Hamilton Co., Ohio. 



ViREO GILVUS AND ViREO FLAVIFRONS IN NORTHERN NeW ENG- 

 LAND. — The opinion having been expressed in the Bulletin (Vol. I, p. 

 73, Vol. II, p. 15), that the Yellow-throated and Warbling Vireos rarely 

 occur in Northern New England, it may be worthy of mention that my 

 correspondents in Vermont (East Bethel, in the very heart of the Green 

 Mountains, just north of the centre of the State) send me, with parent, 

 one set of the eggs of the former (Vireo Jlavifrons) , and no less than four 

 sets of the latter (^Vireo gilvus), and write me that they are quite common 

 there. — T. M. Brewer, Boston, Mass. 



The Loggerhead Shrike in Central New York. — July 19, 1879, 

 Dr. William L. Ralph of this city brought me a Shrike, shot by him in 

 Marcy, Oneida Co., N. Y., within a mile of this city. The bird was a 

 young female, evidently bred near here. Believing the bird to be 

 Lanius luclovicianus, I sent it to Mr. Robert Ridgway, who has kindly com- 

 pared it with skins of that bird from the Gulf States, with which he says it 

 exactly agrees. — Egbert Bagg, Jr., Ulica, N. Y. 



The Evening Grosbeak in New Mexico. — Respecting the occur- 

 rence of the Evening Grosbeak (Hesperiphona vespertina) in New Mexico, 

 Mr. F. Stevens writes me, in a recent letter, that he killed a pair in pine 

 woods, January 26, 1876, and that on the 9th of May following he killed 

 another pair in a box-elder grove. At this date the sexual organs were 

 not enlarged. About ten days later (May 18), however, he killed at the 

 ' same place two females and a male. The females, he thinks, would have 

 laid in three or four weeks. The locality was in Southern New Mexico, 

 near the Arizona line. These facts seem to favor Mr. Henshaw's belief 

 that the species is a rare resident in portions of Arizona. — J. A. Allen, 

 Cambridge, Mas.'<. 



Note on Hesperiphona vespertina. — There is one fact connected 

 with the occurrence of the Evening Grosbeak in Minnesota which is not, 

 I think, generally known. This is the lateness of its departure in the 

 spring. The habits of the species are so regular that it is possible by 

 persistent observation to determine with considerable accuracy the time of 

 the spring migration. In the spring of 1876 we kept a large flock of thirty 

 or forty individuals under almost daily scrutiny until May 1 7. After this 

 date nothing more was seen of them, and they evidently left for the 

 north at that time. May 6 is the latest record in 1877. During the 

 winter of 1877-78 the species was scarcely to be found here. The past 

 winter they were here in only moderate numbers, but quite constantly. 



