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black markings of the side of the head are intermediate in extent between 

 the narrow loral and postocular streak of the Helminthophaga, and the 

 broader loral patuh with suborbital continuation, as seen in the Opnrornis. 

 In form, the bird is as nearly intermediate between the two as could well 

 be imagined, the bill inclining more to that of Oporornis in size and shape, 

 the feet more like those of Helminthophaga. The bird may eventually 

 prove to be a distinct species ; but it certainly suggests a hybrid between 

 those named above, with quite as good (in fact exactly the same) reason as 

 that between Hirundo erythrogastrn and Petrochelidon lunifrons, recorded in 

 a former number of this Bulletin (Vol. Ill, pp. 135, 136). This view of the 

 matter is strengthened by the circumstance that in many, if not most, parts 

 of the Mississippi Valley, especially in the latitude of Cincinnati, the two 

 species breed very abundantly in the same localities, both nesting on the 

 ground, and often having their nests situated only a few feet apart. — 

 Robert Ridgway, Washington, D. C. 



Nest of Dendro^ca c^rulescens, (L.) Bd. — In June, 1880, I was 

 in camp in the Northern wilderness of New York, in Hamilton County, 

 about twenty miles northeast of Wilmurt P. O., Herkimer Co. On the 

 13th of that month it rained heavily, and as we had a trip of a few 

 miles from camp to make, I allowed the weather to prevent my taking my 

 gun with me. About half-way between two small lakes, about a quarter 

 of a mile apart, on a high bluff covered with heavy spruce timber, I dis- 

 covered the nest of a Warbler. It was built about eighteen inches from 

 the ground, in the top of a dead, overturned spruce. It was a beautiful 

 structure, composed outwardly of strips of white rotten wood and inner 

 bark mingled with a few birch " curls," and neatly lined with fine black 

 roots, resembling horse-hair (I have found the same material used as 

 lining by the Olive-backed Thrush), and the finer white quills of our 

 common porcupine, some of which were even large enough for the barbs 

 to be quite perceptible to the naked eye. The nest measured as follows : 

 outside diameter, 4 inches; inside diameter, 1| inches; outside depth, 

 3 inches ; inside depth, 1 f inches. The three eggs it contained almost 

 exactly resembled in size and markings the eggs of the Redstart, except 

 that the spots were mostly in a crown around the larger end. I was 

 unable to identify the bird, and, having nothing with which to kill her, 

 left the nest as I found it. The next day, June 14, I returned with my 

 gun and shot the female, a Black-throated Blue Warbler, as she left 

 the nest. Having secured the mother, I turned to the nest, only to find 

 three small birds, the eggs since the previous day having hatched, greatly 

 to my disappointment, as the reader may imagine. — Egbert Bagg, Jr., 

 Utica, N. Y. 



Note on Giraud's Muscicapa " brasieri." — While looking over a 

 copy of Giraud's " Description of Sixteen new Species of North American 

 Birds," I noticed that the twelfth species is named Muscicapa brasieri. 



