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handsome nest, built directly against the wall of rock, five feet above the 
floor of the cave. The bird was sitting when I found the nest, and 
returned as soon as I left the cave. There were three eggs, two evidently 
much incubated and one infertile, which latter I took. These eggs were 
creamy white, with pale reddish specks and dots about the larger end. 
The specimen which I secured is now in the collection of Brown Univer- 
sity, Providence, R. I. 
The Island Flycatchers had nearly all left Santa Cruz (or retreated to 
distant parts of the island) by the first of August, and I saw none after 
August 10.—EL1 WHITNEY Back, Syracuse, N. Y. 
The White-throated Sparrow Breeding at Hubbardston, Mass. — A few 
pairs of Zonotrichia albécollis breed each year, or have for the last two 
years, among the lower hills (about 1000 feet elevation) about Wachu- 
sett Mountain in Hubbardston, Mass.— REGINALD HEBER HowE, Jr., 
Longwood, Mass. 
Henslow’s Sparrow in Michigan—A Correction.— Dr. Charles W. 
Richmond, Assistant Curator, Department of Birds, U. S. National 
Museum, calls my attention to a misprint in my article on this species in 
the April ‘Auk’ (XIV, p. 220) where, in an extract from his letter, he is 
made to say “this species ought not to be seen in Michigan.” ‘‘ Seen” 
should read “rare.” I think, however, that Henslow’s Sparrow may very 
properly be termed rare in this State. Should one offer a reward for 
specimens of this bird taken here he would be surprised at the very few 
he would obtain. A young ornithologist, in reporting his observations, 
might easily mistake the Grasshopper Sparrow for this species. —JAMES 
B. Purpy, Plymouth, Mich. 
Nesting of Cardinalis cardinalis at Nyack, N. Y. — During the spring 
of 1897 there have been not less than six instances of the breeding of 
Cardinalts cardinalis at Nyack, N. Y. Mr. Rowley, of the American 
Museum of Natural History, tells me that a pair of this species nested at 
Hastings, N. Y. So far as is known, I believe this constitutes the north- 
ernmost breeding record of this bird.— C. L. BROWNELL, Wyack, WV. Y. 
Notes on the Moult and certain Plumage Phases of Prranga rubra.— 
In ‘The Auk’ for July, 1891 (pp. 315, 316) I described an instance wherein 
the Summer Tanager (P. rubra), a female, had assumed the plumage of 
the male. That specimen was collected by my son, Percy Shufeldt, and 
has since been added to the collections of the U. S. National Museum. 
Since that date the same collector has added to his private series, thirteen 
more specimens of this species, and as some ot these exhibit certain nota- 
ble conditions of the moult and plumage, it is my intention here to pass 
a few remarks upon the more interesting of these. Twelve of the skins 
are from male birds, while the thirteenth is from an adult female, taken in 
