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unmixed frst plumage but with fully developed wings. The tail is shorter 
and less deeply forked than in old birds and the rectrices are worn and 
faded. Mr. Scott assures me that the data just quoted are in every way 
correct. He remembers the bird prefectly but had supposed it to be a 
young White-bellied Swallow which, indeed, it resembles rather closely 
but from which it may be at once distinguished by its much narrower 
tail feathers and by the lighter, grayer coloring of its head and back. It 
is, I believe, the second specimen which has occurred within the limits 
covered by our Check-List and the first that has been taken on the main- 
land of Florida. — WILLIAM BREWSTER, Cambridge, Mass. 
Geothlypis agilis a Possible Breeder in Northern Minnesota. — There 
are points in common between the Carberry bog of Mr. Ernest E. 
Thompson (see Seton in ‘The Auk,’ April, 1884, p. 192) and one visited. 
by the writer in the spring of 1893, near Hickory, Aitkin County, Minne- 
sota, where several pairs were nesting, or at least had taken up their 
residence for the season. 
With reference to the actual taking or discovery of nest and eggs of 
this bird, it is believed that the Manitoba record still remains unique. 
Mr. Oscar B. Warren is of the opinion, however, that the Connecticut 
Warbler nests near Palmer, Michigan, a fledgling young being taken there 
by him on Aug. 10, 1894." 
Near Hickory there are many tamarack swamps, but of the several 
inspected one only appeared suitably attractive for the needs of this shy 
bird, perhaps one of the least known of our Warblers, and so no doubt by 
his retiring and terrestrial habits and usually quiet ways, which render easy 
observation difficult. But to one quite familiar with its characteristic song 
or notes no such difficulty should exist, for agzlzs, as its name implies, is 
but seldom seen. The clean cut notes, the Wheat! our-winter-wheat! of 
this lusty songster, with the author thereof in evidence, once heard and 
seen will surely ever afterwards be remembered. 
A mile or more south of’ Hickory is a typical spruce bog; it begins 
at the Mille Lacs post-road on the east and extends in a westerly direc- 
tion possibly three-quarters of a mile, its greatest width being about one- 
eighth of a mile. 
At the eastern end of the bog the trees are mainly of a young growth of 
the black spruce (Prcea madiana) arranged in an open and park-like 
way and presenting a landscape unusually attractive and pleasant to look 
upon in the beauty of natural detail. The western extremity was largely 
given up to tamaracks. Many of the spruces were ‘‘ grizzled with moss” 
(Usnea), and the ground beneath them covered by a dense growth of 
sphagnum, with here and there occasional patches of pitcher-plants. 
It was here on the morning of June 21 that I first discovered my 
songsters, their loud and cheerful notes penetrating the then clear air, 
1 See ‘The Auk’, April, 1895, p. 192. 
