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Dr. Bachman at Charleston, it renders it not unlikely that they still may 
be found nesting on the Atlantic Coast, in which case, perhaps, it might 
be well for us to give more heed to Mr. Bailey’s record.*— FRANK M. 
CHAPMAN, Am. Mus. of Nat. Hist., New York City. 
The Interbreeding of Helminthophila pinus and H. chrysoptera.—On 
June 13, 1889, Mr. Samuel Robinson, who has collected with me here for 
the past fifteen years, noticed a male Helminthophila pinus, with food in 
its bill, fly and disappear at the foot of a small alder. A female Helm/n- 
thophila chrysoptera soon appeared, also with food, and was lost to sight 
at the same spot as the other bird. On going to the locality five young 
birds flew from the nest and alighted on the bushes in the immediate 
vicinity. Both parent birds were soon feeding the young again. He 
shot the old birds and secured all the young, which, together with the 
nest, are in my cabinet. : 
The locality was ground sloping toward a swampy thicket and covered 
with a young growth of alders. A few maple trees were in the vicinity. 
The nest was on the ground at the foot of a small alder and partly con- 
cealed by overhanging ferns and weeds. It is composed externally of oak 
leaves and lined with grape-vine bark, no other materials being used. 
The male (fzvus) is a very brightspecimen with white wing-bars, edged 
with yellow. The female (chrysoffera) is strongly marked with yellow 
below, the wing-bars being exceptionally rich with the same color. 
The young, two males and three females, are all similar, and have the 
head, neck, chest, sides and back olive-green. Abdomen olive-yellow. 
Remiges like adult Azzus. Two conspicuous wing-bars of light olive, 
edged with yellow.—JNo. H. SaGe, Portland, Conn. 
Dendroica coronata Feeding upon Oranges. — While at Enterprise, 
Florida, last February, I twice saw Yellow-rumped Warblers eating the 
pulp of sweet oranges. In the first instance the orange was one that had 
fallen from a cart into the street and had afterwards been crushed so that 
the pulp was exposed. The little bird tugged at it with all its strength 
and seemed to have much difficulty in separating pieces small enough to 
swallow. Some of these were fully an inch long and as large around as a 
lead pencil. In the second instance the orange had merely cracked open 
by falling from the tree to the ground beneath. During the entire month 
of February the orange groves in the vicinity of Enterprise were frequented 
by larger numbers of these Warblers than I found in other places, and I 
have little doubt that the fallen oranges formed the chief attraction. — 
WILLIAM BREWSTER, Cambridge, Mass. 
Recent Capture of Kirtland’s Warbler in Michigan, and other Notes.— 
A specimen of Kirtland’s Warbler (Dendroica kirtland’), female, was 
secured by Mr. Knapp of Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the latter part of April 
or first of May, 1888, at Ann Arbor. 
*Bull. N. O. C., Vol. VIII, p. 38. 
