ne oa General Notes. 32 3 
Breeding of the Rose-breasted Grosbeak at Beverly, New Jersey. —On 
May 2, 1896, I recorded the first arrival of this bird at Beverly, and after- 
wards from day to day noted a male bird whistling from the tree tops in 
the lawns of adjoining properties to where I live. Knowing they were 
not early breeders I did not pay any particular attention to him until 
June 1, at which time he became so noisy with his continual outbursts of 
song, that I concluded to investigate, and soon discovered the female 
building the nest. The male would accompany her about the neighbor- 
hood while gathering material, and perch on the topmost branch of a 
nearby tree and whistle one strain after another. After incubation 
commenced he became more quiet, only whistling occasionally, and 
going off by himself on feeding trips, as often heard him several squares 
away. 
The nest was situated in the topmost branches or twigs of a small maple 
tree, about eighteen feet above the ground, and fifteen feet from the rear 
of a house along the river bank within the city limits of Beverly. 
As this seems very unusual, as well as the most southern record for 
New Jersey, so far as I can ascertain, I concluded to record the note. — 
J. Harris REED, Beverly, N. //. 
On the Status of Lanius robustus Baird as a North American Bird. — 
Having recently had occasion to again examine the type of Lanzus robustus 
Baird, which I was fortunately able to do through the kindness of the 
authorities of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, I feel 
more sure than ever that the bird is not North American atall. It agrees 
in all characters but two, namely, the larger, more strongly hooked bill 
and peculiar pattern of the secondaries, with ZL. algertensis; and two 
examples of the latter in the National Museum collection approach it so 
closely in the last respect that I have little doubt it is merely an 
‘aberrant’ specimen or possibly a local form of that species. — ROBERT 
Ripeway, U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 
Vireo flavoviridis in Nebraska—a Correction.—In order to avoid 
confusion, it becomes necessary to state that the bird on which the note 
in ‘The Auk’ (XIII, 263), recording the capture of Vireo flavoviridis was 
founded, has been found to be V. olzwaceus. 
In explanation of how this error occurred I will state that the specimen 
was somewhat abnormally colored, and according to the measurements 
given by Ridgway (Manual, 470), had a tail at least one inch shorter than 
the minimum length in V. olzvaceus. Hence it was identified as V. 
flavoviridis. Since that time I have found, however, that the measure- 
ment of the tail, 3.15-3.30, given by Ridgway is in all probability an error. 
All of the authorities, Coues, Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway himself in his 
‘Ornithology of Illinois’, do not give a maximum measurement of more 
than 2.50.— L. BRUNER, Lincoln, Nebraska. 
