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to round up the zero point, and the ice on the river was quite thick and 
safe for crossing, though the water flows swiftly through the cafon. The 
only snow to be found lav in heavy banks onthe north slopes. Person- 
ally I was unable to visit the canon again during the winter, but my friend, 
the conductor, Mr. J. J. Duffey, kindly kept me posted up to February 7, 
888. On this date, he informed mea few days afterward, the birds were 
as abundant as when I saw them, two months before. Mr Duffey is 
thoroughly reliable, and I greatly regret his transfer to another division, 
as his departure on February 7 left the cafion without an observer. The 
severe weather being nearly over at this time, I am satisfied the birds 
remained in the cafion until spring. Does any member of the A. O. U. 
know of the bird’s wintering in favored localities like the North Platte 
Cafion, or in this latitude (42°20! N.) anywhere? Mycadestes townsendit 
is hardly folerably common during the migrating seasons, at Cheyenne.— 
FRANK Bonn, Cheyenne, Wyoming. 
Another Western Bird in South Carolina.—October 5, 1888, I procured, 
near the town of Chester, a Thrush which I believed to be Turdus fusces- 
ceus salicicolus. To place the identification beyond question, I submitted 
the specimen to Mr. Robert Ridgway, the original describer of the sub- 
species, soliciting his determination. I was promptly favored with a reply 
which corroborated the opinion formed by myself as stated above.— 
LEVERETT M. Loomis, Chester, S. C. 
Bicknell’s Thrush Breeding in Vermont.— Now that Turdus alicie@ 
bicknelli has been reported as a summer resident on Mount Graylock, 
Massachusetts, as well as in the Catskills and the White Mountains, it 
may not be amiss for me to enter a somewhat tardy record of its presence 
in the Green Mountains. In July, 1885, I passed four days (14th to 17th) 
on Mount Mansfield, and found Bicknell’s Thrushes abundant in the ever- 
greens about the hotel. From the piazza, one evening, I heard six sing- 
ing at once, and during the day their calls were so persistent as to become 
almost a nuisance. After my return to Boston the clerk of the hotel sent 
me a young bird in the flesh, and the specimen is now in Mr. Brewster’s 
collection.— BRADFORD TorrREY, Melrose Highlands, Massachusetts. 
Some Rare Rhode Island Birds.—The following species, considered 
rare for that portion of the country, have been observed by me in the vicin- 
ity of Newport, Rhode Island: Henslow’s Sparrow (Ammodramus hen- 
slowt), abundant in September and October, 1888; Florida Gallinule 
(Gallinula galeata), a number seen in October, 1888; Black-throated 
Bunting (Sp/za americana), one specimen, September, 1888; Red Phala- 
rope (Crymophilus fulicarius), one specimen, Oct. 11, 1888. — Wirt 
Rosinson, 2d. Lieut., ath Artillery, Fort Adams, R. I. 
Some Rare Virginia Birds.—On November 12, 1881, whilst hunting in 
Chesterfield Co., Virginia (the south side of James River), I observed 
