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General Notes. 



Myiodioctes canadensis in Kansas. — In watching for the early 

 arrivals of the returning migrants, I shot August 29, at this place, on the 

 hanks of the Neosho River, a female Canadian Flvcatching Warbler. 



As the birds inhabit the low swampy timbered lands, this is without 

 doubt their extreme western limit, and is therefore worthy of note. — 

 X. S. Goss, Neosho Falls, Kansas. 



Capture of the Worm-eating Warbler in Massachusetts. — On 

 September 19, 1SS1, I shot in some low moist woods in Cambridge, a 

 line female Worm-eating Warbler (Helmitherus vermi'vorus). This is 

 the first capture of this bird in Massachusetts. The only previous note 

 of its occurrence in this State on record is that of Mr. W. A. Stearns, who 

 says he saw one at Easthampton, Mass. (see New England Bird Life, p. 

 in). — Henry M. Spelman, Cambridge, Mass. 



Melospiza lincoi.ni breeding in New York again. — On page 197 

 of Volume III of this Bulletin, is an account of my taking the nest of 

 this bird in 1S78. To this record I now desire to add another. On June 

 16, 1SS1, on the shore of Otter Lake (or Pond) Hamilton Co., N. Y. 

 (about half a mile from the locality in which I took the nest in 1S7S). I 

 Hushed a Lincoln's Finch from her nest. She was so quick in her flight 

 that I missed her with both barrels and was obliged to retire into the 

 bushes and wait her return, and as 1 stood up to my ankles in wet moss 

 and mud among the alders, being devoured by mosquitoes, blackflies, and 

 punkies, I kept saying to myself "If it is only a Lincoln's Finch it will 

 pav for all this." But I could scarcely believe my good fortune when, 

 after returning to the nest and killing the female bird, I took her out of 

 the water, where she fell, and saw it really was the desired bird. The 

 nest was situated almost exactly like the other, in wet spongy ground 

 at the edge of the lake, not under any bush or weed, but epiite well 

 concealed. by last year's grasses. Diameter outside, 3.75 inches; in- 

 side, 2 inches; depth outside, 2.25 inches: inside, 1.75 inches. It was 

 composed of fine grasses loosely put together, and set down nearly level 

 with the moss. The eggs, which were tour, slightly advanced in incuba" 

 tion, were exactly like those taken in 187S, except that the spots of 

 reddish-brown were rather larger ami more marked. — Egbert Bagg. Jr.. 

 Utica, N. 1'. 



Xanthocephalus icterocephalus in Lower Canada. — While on 

 the Lower St. Lawrence, in July last. Mr. N. A. Comeau handed me for 

 identification the skin of a Yellow-headed Blackbird (Xanthocefhalus 



icterocephalus) that he shot, early in September ("about Sept. 4")^ 187S, 

 in his dooryard, at Gedbout River, Province of Quebec, Canada — six miles 

 west of the entrance to the Gulf. — C. Hart Merriam. M. D., Locust 



(have, Neva York. 



