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Helminthophila chrysoptera.--A female was taken by Mr. Eames at 
Seymour on May 21. It seems tobe a rare bird in most parts of the State. 
At Portland one was seen by Mr. Sage May 13, and five others May 30. 
None were reported along the coast. 
. Helminthophila leucobronchialis.—Mr. Eames at Seymour took a male 
on May 26, and observed five others at various dates, as reported by him in 
the October ‘Auk’ (Vol. V, p. 427). Mr. Flint saw one at New Haven 
May 15, and Mr. Clark one at Saybrook May 13. Mr. Sage took a male 
at Portland May 10, and saw another the same day. 
Helminthophila lawrencei.—Three beautiful specimens of this bird were 
taken. Mr. Flint took a female at New Haven May 21, and Mr. Hoyt 
obtained a female at Stamford, May 23, anda male May 25. The yellow 
of the under parts of the female taken by Mr. Hoyt approaches the gam- 
boge-yellow of HZ. Azzus, and is much brighter than that on the corre- 
sponding parts of Mr. Flint’s specimens.—Louts B. Bisuop, M. D., New 
EHiaven, Conn. 
The Connecticut Warbler in Vermont.—On September 20, 1888, I took 
a male Connecticut Warbler (Geothlypis agilzs) in the Green Mountains, 
two miles north of Pittsford, Vermont. This is, I believe, the first record 
of the species in Vermont.— FRANK H. Hircucock, Somerville, Massa- 
chusetts. 
Myiadestes townsendii Apparently Wintering in Wyoming. — On 
December 7, 1887, I was invited by a conductor on the Cheyenne and 
Northern Railway, to go out to the end of the road, which is about 125 
miles north.of Cheyenne, and take a shot at mountain sheep. For the 
last three miles the road winds along in the magnificent North Platte 
Cajion and looks, from the brow of the perpendicular precipices on either 
side, like two silver threads glistening in the sun, and the construction 
train appears like the toy train of the nursery. I had with me only my 
long range Sharp’s rifle and was wholly unprepared to collect bird skins 
which were to be had here for the taking. On the walls of the cafion, es- 
pecially in the less precipitous places, there flourishes a scattering growth 
of scrub cedar whose branches were well laden with the dark blue cedar 
berry. 
' Living, I believe, almost entirely upon these berries, for a winter diet, 
were countless thousands of Townsend’s Solitaire (Myfadestes townsendit) 
and Robins (Merula migratoria propingua). I gaw also Sitta cana- 
densts and several Long-crested Jays (Cyanoczttta s. macrolopha). Both 
the Solitaires and Robins were acting like school children out for a holi- 
day. They would chase one another hither and thither, now up to the 
brow of the cafion 500 or 600 feet above, now back and forth across the 
mirrored ice of the river below, and all the while singing and chattering 
like mad. It warms one’s heart to enter such a vale of melody in cold 
December. 
The temperature, prior to my visit, had been making strenuous efforts 
