54 General Notes. 



4. Helmiiithophiht rujicapilla (Wils.)- 



5. HelmintJiofhila virghiice (Baird). 



6. Helminthophila celata (Say). 



7. Helminthophila feregri7ia (Wils.). 



8. Heltninthophila lucice {Coo-per). — Robert Ridgway, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Dendrceca pahnaruin again in Massachusetts. — The first capture 

 of Dendrceca palmarmn in Massachusetts was that of a single bird 

 taken by Mr. Arthur Smith at Brookline, about the middle of October, 

 1878. (See note by Mr. Ruthven Deane, Bull. Nutt. Club, Vol. IV, page 

 60.) I have the pleasure of announcing the capture of two additional 

 specimens. The first was taken at Cambridge, September 13, 1880, and 

 was shot on an apple tree while in company with several other War- 

 blers. The second was shot at Belmont, September 7, 18S1, from the top 

 of a yellow pine. The marked difference in the intensity of the yellow 

 of the breast and under tail-coverts first attracted my attention to this 

 bird. Never having met with D. palmarum hypochrysea in the autumn, 

 I thought both birds to be of this variety until quite recently, when my 

 friend Mr. William Brewster identified them for me and found them to be 

 genuine D. palmarum. — Henry M. Spelman. Cambridge, Mass. 



Ampelis cedrorinn as a Sap-sucker.— The Cedar, or Cherry-Bird 

 seems never to be very abundant in this section of the State; but early in 

 the spring, when the birds first arrived from the south, I saw quite a large 

 number of them, and observed what was to me a new habit. They resort- 

 ed to the maple trees for the purpose of gathering the sap flowing from 

 wounds made by the ice in the bark of the smaller branches. The birds 

 would grasp a branch or twig with their claws, and partially swing them- 

 selves under it and drink the sap where it hung in drops. For a week or more 

 these birds were so plentiful and so intent upon their sap-gathering that 

 one was almost certain to find a flock wherever there was a group of 

 maples. I took considerable pains to ascertain if this habit was shared by 

 any other bird, but did not observe a single instance. In the Eastern 

 States I have often seen squirrels drinking sap ft-om the branches in this 

 way. but never before saw it done by a bird. — F. E. L. Beal, Atnes. 

 Jozva . 



Captvrk OF Plcctrophanes lapponicusiN Chester, South Carolina. — 

 Mr. Leverett M. Loomis writes me that on January i, 1881, he shot a single 

 individual of this species from a small flock of Shore Larks, which were 

 feeding upon oftal in a barn-yard. There appears to be no previous 

 record of the occurrence of this species in South Carolina. — ^J. A. Allen, 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



Occurrence of Coturniculus lecontei in Chester County, South 

 Carolina. — Near the town of Chester, S. C, on the dividing ridge 

 between the Broad and Catawba Rivers, there is an "old-field" of some 



