General Notes. 115 



47. Fugitive Notes. By J. M. W[hipple]. Ihid., VI, p. 158. — Records 

 spotted eggs of the Bridge Pewee, and a set of "six white Bluebird's eggs" ; 

 also later sets of white eggs of the same birds, which produced young. 

 Notes also the capture of birds by frogs, and the destruction of Bluebird's 

 eggs by gray squirrels. 



48. The Indigo Finch. By C. W. Gedney. Ibid., VI, p. 159. — Mainly 

 relating to its life in aviaries and cages. 



N. B. — The announcement is made in the closing number of Vol. VI 

 of the " Familiar Science and Fancier's Journal," that a change in the 

 name, size, and character of this journal will be made with the beginning 

 of Vol. VII (1880) by the omission of the "pre6x and addenda" of the 

 name (see anted, p. 113, foot-note), and the exclusion of all matter not 

 relating to Poultry, Pigeons, and kindred topics. The announcement is 

 also made that the " Familiar Science " will be started " in the spring " 

 of 1880 as a separate publication, devoted to original field notes and 

 observations. — J. A. A. 



(general ^oU^, 



Capture of the Stonechat near Eastport, Maine. — I have had 

 sent me a Stonechat (Saxicola cenanthe) shot by Mr. George Moses on 

 Indian Island, near Eastport, August 25, 1879. — George A. Board- 

 man, Milltoivn, N. B. 



A Crossbilled Horned Lark. — Professor H. W. Parker, of the 

 Agricultural College of Iowa, recently sent me drawings and a description 

 of a Horned Lark with crossed mandibles, shot at Grinnell, Iowa, Decem- 

 ber 9, 1879. Both mandibles are of the same length, rather longer and 

 slenderer than usual, the upper curving downward and the lower upward, 

 passing by each other and crossing in the same manner as in the Cross- 

 bills. The specimen is thus truly a crossbilled Horned Lark. Deformities 

 of the bill in birds is not a very rare occurrence, but examples are rare in 

 which the mandibles are so fully and symmetrically crossed as in the pres- 

 ent case. A similar deformity in a Magpie is recorded by Dr. Brewer 

 (Familiar Science and Fancier's Journal, June, 1879, p. 106), and a few 

 other like cases are on record. — J. A. Allen, Cambridge, Mass. 



Capture of the Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea) 

 NEAR Philadelphia. — A female of the Prothonotary Warbler {P. 

 citrea) was shot last May (1879) on the Schuylkill, near Gray's Ferry 

 Bridge, below Philadelphia, and is now in the writer's collection. Thi.s is 

 another addition to the very few recorded captures of this species at so 

 northern a point in its Atlantic sea-board range. — Spencer Trotter, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



