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on Nov. II, 1897. It proved to be a female in good condition and its 

 stomach contained a number of seeds and part of the skin of a tomato.. 

 The plumage showed no signs of wear and tear which would brand it as 

 an escaped cage bird. 



It was killed just outside of this city near Mr. Sharp's farm, and was^ 

 mistaken for a Shrike at the time. 



This is very late in the season for a Mockingbird to be found so far 

 north, yet I cannot think that it had recently been in captivity. — A. C. 

 Bent, Tautttoti, Mass. 



Late Nesting of the Carolina Wren in Monongalia Co., W. Va. — On 



August 21, 1897, while driving along the road near Morgantown, W. Va. 

 I discovered, among the dangling roots on the upper side of the road, a 

 nest of the Carolina Wren (^Thryothorus ludovicianus) containing five 

 fresh eggs. The position of the nest very much resembled that of the 

 Louisiana Water Thursh (^Seitirus motactlla) and had I not got out to 

 positively identify tlie nest, would not have known it was occupied. 

 The old bird allowed me to approach very closely, placing my hand on 

 the side of the nest before she left. She then fluttered out and down 

 along the side of the road into some bushes. — J. Warren Jacobs,. 

 WayHeshurg-, Pa. 



Hemiura leucogastra (^Gould) — A Correction. — In 'The Auk ' for 

 October, 1897 (Vol. XIV, pp. 409, 410) I maintained that Baird's determi- 

 nation of Troglodytes leticogaster Gould should be accepted, since Baird 

 had Gould's type before him, while Messrs. Sclater, Salvin, and Godman 

 who determined Gould's bird differently, did not have the advantage of 

 an acquaintance with the type. Mr. H. C. Oberholser has called my atten- 

 tion to the fact that Gould's type afterwards came into the possession of 

 the British Museum (as shown in Vol. VI of the Brit. Mus. Cat. of Birds, 

 p. 285, 1881) and proved to be the CypJiorliinus pusilhis of Sclater, con- 

 firming the determination made by Messrs. Sclater and Salvin in 1873. 

 That Baird had what purported to be Gould's type of Troglodytes letico- 

 gaster cannot be doubted ; that he could have confounded a Hemiura 

 and a Thryotkorus is incredible; the natural inference is that some con- 

 fusion of labels among the skins received from Gould may have been the 

 cause of Baird's wrong identification. — Walter Faxon, Miisemn of 

 Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 



Bicknell's Thrush on Mt. Ktaadn, Maine. — On June 22 and 23, 1897, I 

 made a short visit to Mt. Ktaadn, Maine, partly for the purpose of orni- 

 thological observation. On the 22d I heard three Bicknell's Thrushes 

 (Tardus alicicE bicknelli) singing, along the Southwest Slide, and on the 

 23d I heard the same three and two more besides, one pretty well up the 



