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dence to indicate what subspecies is the prevailing one. Whether the 
Ravens of the Carolinian highlands belong to the northern or to the 
southwestern form, or whether both varieties occur, or whether they 
will be found to be so nearly intermediate as not to be susceptible of prac- 
ticable separation, alone can be determined by the examination of a con- 
siderable series obtained at different seasons of the year. 
That this species had not entirely deserted the Piedmont region at the. 
time of Audubon’s writing, I have lately obtained proof. A friend, still 
in active life, who has long been an intelligent observer of birds, informs 
me that between fifty and sixty years ago, the Raven was “‘plentiful” in the 
_ portions of Chester and York Counties contiguous to Broad River 
which has its source in the mountains of North Carolina about fifty miles 
distant. None, however, have been seen by him since the War. In 
Mill’s ‘Statistics of South Carolina’ (1826), in the brief account of the 
birds of Newberry (also on Broad River, but further south in the Piedmont 
Belt), it is stated that ‘‘The Raven has also left this part of the country.’ 
Dr. Coues included this species in his ‘Synopsis of the Birds of South 
Carolina’ (1868) on the authority of Professor Gibbes, whose list of birds 
(Tuomey’s ‘Report on the Geology of South Carolina,’ 1848) was based 
on Audubon’s ‘Synopsis of the Birds of North America.’ Dr. Coues 
further adds, ‘I am under the impression that I once saw an individual at 
Columbia, but cannot speak positively.” Weight is added to this state- 
ment by the situation of Columbia at the confluence of the Broad and 
Saluda Rivers. as the south fork of this latter stream, nearits head, flows 
at the base of Table Rock, somewhat over a hundred miles away.— 
LEVERETT M. Loomis, Chester, S. C. 
The Lapland Longspur near Chicago in June.—On June 14 of the 
present.year (1889), I took an adult female Calcarzus lapponicus in full 
summer plumage at Sheffield, Lake Co., Indiana, which is about sixteen 
miles southeast of Chicago, on Lake Michigan. 
The bird was alone and seemed to be thoroughly at home with her sur- 
roundings, being shot near the sand hills close to the lake shore. She 
was quite fat and appeared to be in excellent condition, but the ovaries 
showed no approach of the breeding season.—B. T. GAuLt, Chicago, Jl. 
Helminthophila bachmani on the East Coast of Florida.—March 21, 
1889, at ‘Oak Lodge,’ the residence of Mr. C. F. Latham, on the east 
peninsula opposite Micco, Brevard Co., Florida, it was the writer’s rare 
good fortune to secure two specimens, male and female, of this recently 
resurrected species. 
The ovaries of the female showed only slight traces of development, and 
this, in addition to the fact that the birds were evidently part of the flock 
of early migrating Warblers in which they were found, indicates, as might 
be expected, a more northern breeding ground than the scene of their 
capture, and considerably increases the area of their probable summer 
home. Taken in connection with the original discoyery of the species by 
