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LANIVIREO soLiTaRIus, Baird.—Blue-headed or Solitary Vireo.— 
Noted by Mr. Quick as ‘‘common” at Brookville, Indiana, on May 2, 
1881. 
PAssER pDomesticus, Leach.—Huropean House Sparrow.—On August 
29, 1880, we picked up a specimen of this species at Madisonville, 
which, although exhibiting no mark of injury, was evidently in a 
dying condition. It lived about half an hour after coming under ob- 
servation, and during that time was subject to convulsive paroxysms at _ 
intervals of a few minutes. An autopsy immediately after death re- 
vealed the following conditions: Liver very soft, friable, and of a 
dusky, olivaceous brown color, resembling the “bronzed” hue which 
vecurs in the human liver and other organs, as a consequence of 
chronic malarial poisoning. Kidneys also discolored in the same 
manner, but to a less extent. Other organs normal; no marks of vio- 
lence anywhere. 
CorurnicuLus PASSERINUS, Bonaparte.— Y ellow-winged Sparrow.— 
Under date of July 25, 1880, Mr. Charles Dury writes as follows: 
“ June 26 (1880), I saw and heard many Yellow-winged Sparrows, and 
took one nest and four eggs (incubation begun).” This was in some 
meadow land west of Lockland, Ohio, and adds a species to the list of 
those known to breed in this vicinity, which now numbers (including 
those added in the present paper), eighty-five. 
SPIZELLA PUSILLA, Bonaparte.— Field Sparrow.—A specimen in the 
writer’s cabinet (No. 1,037), taken at Madisonville, Ohio, August 26, 
1878, exhibits a globular tumor, the size of a large pea, involving the 
forehead and the upper mandible to its tip. The growth had probably 
to some extent affected the cerebral functions as was evidenced by the 
irregular flight of the bird which first attracted our attention; and also 
by the fact of its capture by hand with little difficulty, although the 
wings and other parts were entire. 
Another specimen (No. 1,058 F. W. L.) taken at Madisonville, Sept. 
28, 1878, exhibits partial albinism—one of the secondaries being pure 
white. 
A third specimen of the same species (No. 800, F. W. L., Madison- 
ville, Oct. 28, 1877), presents a tumor the size of a small pea, at the 
distal extremity of the middle toe.—(Ep. ) 
PEUCHA ZSTIVALIS ILLINOISENSIS, Ridgway.—Oak-woods Sparrow. 
—We are in receipt of the following interesting note respecting the 
occurrence of this species, about one hundred miles southwest of Cin- 
