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two hundred acres that has been Ijing out, until recently, for a number of 

 years. Here and there are patches of newly-sown grain, but the greater 

 portion is now in broom-sedge and weedy stubble and corn land. Near 

 the middle there is a small "wet-weather branch," which empties into a 

 large creek a mile distant. November ri, 1881, in this locality, in the 

 weedy stubble, my first specimen of Le Conte's Bunting was secured. 

 Nov. 16, a second was taken in the broom-sedge near the same spot. Nov. 

 17, a third was shot, and several others were seen. Dec. 3, three more 

 were captured ; two in the broom-sedge, and the remaining one in the 

 swamp grass bordering the "branch." Dec. 10, my last visit to the field, 

 six additional specimens were taken, and as many more were seen. I am 

 not aware that the species has hitherto been reported as occurring so far 

 east as South Carolina. — Leverett M. Loomis, Chester, S. C. 



The Sharp-tailed Finch in Kansas. — Col. N. S. Goss, of Neosho 

 Falls, Kansas, wrote me under date of Oct. 17, 1881, that he had killed 

 what he thought was a male Nelson's Sharp-tailed Finch. Two days 

 later he shot another, which he kindly sent me. The bird proved to be, 

 as Mr. Goss supposed, Ammodrajnits caudacntns uelsotii. The birds were 

 killed "at the edge of a slough, on the low bottom lands of the Neosho 

 River, about two miles from Neosho Falls." This discovery is of special 

 interest as indicating that the Sharp-tailed Finch, formerly supposed to 

 be strictly maritime in its distribution, may be found locally over a wide 

 range in the interior. — ^J. A. Allen, Cambridge, Mass. 



Note on Mitrephanes, a new Generic Name. — The name Mitre- 

 phoriis of Sclater, P. Z. S., 1859, P- 44i i'^ preoccupied in Coleoptera by 

 Mitrefhorus, Schdnh., 1S37, emended AlitrofJiorus, Burm., 1844. It may 

 therefore be changed to Mitrephanes; type Mitrephanes phcEocercus (Scl.) ; 

 including Mitrepliaties aiirantiive?ttris (Lawr.), if not also Mitrephanes 

 fulvifrons (Grd.), and its var. fallcscens (Coues). — Elliott Coues, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Nesting of Empidonax minimus and Helmintherus vcrmivorus in 

 Pennsylvania and New Jersey. — Although instances of the breeding 

 of the Least Flycatcher within the limits of Pennsylvania and New Jersey 

 have been affirmed byTurnbuU and one or two other authorities, a precise 

 record cannot perhaps be found that will prove it to breed as far south as 

 Philadelphia. Having found a nest and clutch of eggs belonging to this 

 species, June i, iSSi, and satisfactorily identified the parent birds by 

 shooting them, it is thought that this notice may prove of interest as 

 perhaps removing doubts as to the accuracy of Turnbull's statement. 

 E. minimus escaped the notice of the writer till the spring of i88o, when 

 two pairs were noticed in June in the suburbs of Philadelphia, but any 

 nests which may have existed escaped my observation. The present year 

 (1881) I first noticed them in Delaware County, Pa., two pairs taking up 

 their abode in an orchard surrounding the house. Here the above men- 



