114 General Notes. 



solitary, and so tame that they frequently permitted an approach to within 

 five or six yards before leaving their perch. 



My brother obtained another specimen in the same locality on the 4th 

 and reported them more numerous than on the 1st. I observed three more 

 individuals in the woods bordering on Rock Creek on the 9th, a few hours 

 after a snow storm. — George Shoemaker, Georgetown. D. C. 



The Hi dsonian Titmouse in Massachusetts. — December 31, 1880, 

 I shot a Hudsonia.n Titmouse (JPafus hudsonieiis) in my garden at Cam- 

 bridge. It was very tame and, in company with one Black-capped Tit- 

 mouse, was hopping about on a low pear-tree when secured. The ther- 

 mometer had been in the neighborhood of zero for several days and the 

 Black-capped Titmice unusually numerous. This is, I believe, the third 

 appearance of the Hudsonian Titmouse in Massachusetts. — Henry M. 

 Sim.i.m \\. Cambridge. Mass. 



On the Range of Lophophanes atroeristatus in Texas. — In looking 

 over Mr. Sennett's " Notes on the Ornithology of the Lower Rio Grande" 

 I was surprised to tint! that this species ranged westward up the Rio 

 Grande only to Fort Clark, about three degrees west of Fort Brown. It 

 also recalled to my mind that, so far as my own observations have ex- 

 tended, the longitudinal range of the Black-crested Tit becomes still more 

 contracted as I traced it north, the bird being seen only in a narrow strip 

 of cross timber in Young Co., Texas in about lat. 33 N. From Fort 

 Griffin, which is forty miles west of Graham, in Young County, I trav- 

 eled westward one hundred miles and did not see a single specimen. To 

 the east of Graham there was a decided strip of neutral land on which I 

 did not observe either L. atroeristatus or A. bicolor. I estimate approx- 

 imately the width of this space at thirty miles. This trip was made in 

 October, 1S78. The eastern boundary of the range of this species runs 

 from Graham southwest to Austin. Texas. This bird was not seen on the 

 head of the Red River by Lieut. McCauley, but it ranges nearly if not 

 quite to Red River in long, ioo 9 W. — -G. II. Ragsdale, Gainesville. 

 Texas. 



The Connecticut Warbler (Oporornis agilis) — a Correction. — 

 In a small collection of birds kindly sent to me for examination, by Mr. 

 George Woolsev, is the specimen recorded as Oporornis agilis in Vol. V. 

 p. 117. of this Bulletin. The specimen proves to be a female Geothlypis 

 Philadelphia. The bird was taken May 12, 1880, and the correction of 

 the error becomes the more important from this fact, since it leaves Opo- 

 rornis agilis without a spring record for southern New England. — J. A. 

 Allen. Cambridge, Mass. 



Strange nesting habits of a pair of Chats. — I think the follow- 

 ing extracts from a letter lately received from Mr. C. W. Beckham of 

 Washington, D. C, may be of interest to the readers of the Bulletin. The 

 locality is near Ilchester, Howard Co., Maryland. 



