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off through the thick growth, in order to shoot, but it became alarmed 

 at mv movements and suddenly dropped to the ground when a hasty 

 shot failed to procure it, nor did either of the pair subsequently appear. 

 The nest was placed about six feet from the ground, in the end of a 

 decaying stub, the irregularities being neatly filled with green wood moss, 

 both below and around the nest proper, which measures outside 5^ 

 inches in depth by 4 in width. The entrance is perfectly round, nearly 

 an inch in diameter, placed two inches from the top. and is strengthened 

 by a framework of a fe\v slender dead spruce twigs, woven into the out- 

 side covering of green moss. Above it is well protected by a thick mass 

 of the same green moss which serves so admirably to conceal it from 

 prving eves. Long, slender, dried grasses form the inner walls, just 

 sufficient to give it strength, and within this a thick lining of soft white 

 feathers of the Herring Gull (Larus argentatus smithsonianus). A neater, 

 warmer bird home it would be hard to conceive, and had the little archi- 

 tect not incautiously left a c; white feather " partly protruding from the 

 entrance I doubt if I should be its possessor. Five eggs were the full 

 complement in this case. They are ovate, slightly pointed at the smaller 

 end. of a brilliant white ground color, very evenly but sparingly sprinkled 

 with reddish-brown dots, and measure respectively .65 X .49, .65 X .48, 

 .63X.49, .63X.47 and .62X.4S. They are larger and less rounded than are 

 the eggs of Par 11$ atricapillus, though resembling them somewhat in style 

 of marking.— R. F. Pearsai.l. New York City. 



Two more SPKC1MENS of Helminthophaga IcHcobroiich iai is from 

 Sim, Sing, X. Y. — While collecting with Mr. Eugene P. Bicknell, on 

 Croton Point, among some small pines, July 24, 1SS1. I shot a specimen 

 of the above-named Warbler. We were attracted by a flock of small birds 

 flitting through the pines, composed of Chickadees, Yellow Warblers. 

 Black-and- White creepers, and Blue-winged Yellow Warblers. While 

 following these up we got a glimpse at this bird and killed it as it flew 

 to the ground in pursuit of an insect. This specimen differs from others 

 in having a black auricular patch. Sex not absolutely determined, as the 

 bird was badly shot, but it was apparently a female. 



On August 3, 1881, I shot another specimen, in some low bushes border- 

 ing a stream, near where I procured a specimen August 24. 1S79.* It 

 resembled that specimen in having a yellow r pectoral band, but, unlike it, 

 the wing-bands were normal: yellow, not white. — A. K. Fisher. M. D.. 

 Sing Sing, A. )'■ 



Another specimen of Siurus motacilla at Lake George, N. Y. — 

 Mr. Oliver B. Lockhart showed me a specimen of this bird which he 

 shot, May 16, 1SS1, at Lake George. He is positive that he has seen other 

 specimens, but failed in procuring them except the pairf which he and 

 Mr. Bishop killed a few years ago. — A. K. Fisher, M. D., Sing Sing, X. }'. 



* See this Bulletin, Vol. IV, No. 3, Oct. 1879, p. 234. 

 t See this Bulletin, Vol. V , April, 18S0, p. II. 



