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in regard to the first, second, and third specimens known, Professor 

 Baird says (Rev. Am. Birds, 1865, 207) : 



"Until recently the only authenticated and known specimen of this species was the 

 type, No. 4,363, killed by Dr. Kirtland, near Cleveland, Ohio, May, 1851, and prepared 

 by myself. I have, however, lately found a second skin in the collection of Dr. Samuel 

 Cabot, Jr., of Boston, taken at sea between the island of Abaco and Cuba. The plumage 

 is not quite so matured as in the type, and lacks the dark spots on the jngulum ; it is, 

 however, otherwise very similar. A third specimen (female) is reported in the Ohio 

 Farmer for Juoe 9, 1860, as killed that season near Cleveland, and preserved by Mr. R. 

 K. Winslow, who states that the late Wra. Case, of Cleveland, also killed a specimen, 

 bat did not preserve it. Dr. Hoy also thinks that he has seen it at Eacine. A careful 

 search in the vicinity of Cleveland, about the middle of May, will probably be rewarded 

 by the discovery of additional specimens." 



The above reference to the Ohio Farmer, June 9th (ix, 1860, 179), pre- 

 sumably from the pen of Jno. Kirkpatrick, is as follows : 



" A specimen of t.his rare bird (Dendroica kirtlandii) was shot a Short time ago near the 

 'old river bed,' Cleveland, by Mr. Darby, of University Heights. It was identified by 

 R. K. Winslow, preserved and mounted by him, and proved to be a female. Until now 

 there was but one specimen of this bird known, that obtained by Dr. Kirtland, now in 

 the collection of the Smithsonian, at Washington. It was first described by Mr. Baiid 

 in the Annals of the New York Lyceum (185'i), and afterwards in Cassin's Illustrations. 



"The present specimen is more lead-colored on the upper parts than Cassin's figure, 

 but clearly resembles the coloring in another plate which we have not seen. Mr. Wins- 

 low informs us that Wm. Case, Esq , once shot a specimen, but it was so badly injured 

 as to be unfit for preserving." 



This specimen unaccountably disappeared from the possession of Mr. 

 Winslow in a few days after its reception, and it has never been heard 

 of since. 



The fourth specimen, Mr. Dury's, is finely mounted, and ornaments 

 his choice collection of Ohio birds. 



The sixth and seventh specimens were recorded by myself (Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 58), as follows : 



"I have been informed by Mr. R. K. Winslow and other ornithologists of Cleveland, 

 Ohio, that two specimens of Dendrceca Mrtlandi were taken at Eockport, Cuyahoga 

 county, Ohio, by William and John Hall, during the past season. One of these is a fe- 

 male, the first of the sex taken. Both were captured within two miles of the spot where 

 the original specimen was taken by Dr. Kirtland. A third specimen is said to have been 

 taken in that vicinity about the same time, but I was unable to obtain any definite in- 

 formatioii concerning it." 



If not mistaken, I was informed that these birds were observed near 

 the ground, on brush-heaps and undergrowth. 



Mr. Corey, in recording the specimen taken by him on Andros Island 

 Bahamas (Bull. Nutt. Orn, Club, iv, 1879, 118), givds the only descr 



