Recokd of Additional Spkcimexs ok thk White-throated i 

 Wakulek {HelmintJwphacia leucobronchialu) . — lu this Bulletin, Vol. Ill, ' ' 

 p. 199, Mr. William Brewster describes the fifth then known specimen 

 of the above-named Warbler. I can now announce three more, and allude 

 to what T presume is a fourth : — 



1. A very typical example shot by Mr. Samuel Jillson, in Hudson, 

 Mass., in May or June, 1858. By considerable correspondence I traced 

 this specimen to the collection of Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. 

 Prof. P. A. Chadbourne, without hesitation, very kindly sent it to me 

 for examination. The under surface is clean, silky white, with no trace 

 of yellow anywhere ; back pure ashy. It was labelled"//, piniix, male." 

 This capture antedates all but the Philadelphia Academy specimen, and 

 is the second Massachusetts occurrence. 



2. A male is in possession of William W. Coe of Portland, Conn., 

 taken there May 22, 1875, which I have b.'cn able to handle by his 

 obligingly loaning me the bird. This one departs from what we consider 

 type specimens in the amount of yellow on both the upper and under parts. 

 There is a broad band or blotch of this color on the breast, with a slight 

 suffusion on the chin and the rest of the ventral aspect. The whole 

 dorsal plumage, from the crown, is faintly washed with the same tint. 

 Compare this and next with Mr. Brewster's account of E. I. Shorus's Suf- 

 field, Conn., specimen, above alluded to. 



3. At date of penning these data the following comes from my friend 

 J. N. Clark, at Saybrook, Coun. : " Took a fine male //. leiicohrorichialtx, 

 May 30 [1879] ; — an exceptional specimen, with a patch of bright yellow 

 a<;ross the breast from the bend of wings. Thought it was pitms when I 

 fired ; notes and habits the same." Mr. Clark's is the fourth for Con- 

 necticut. 



4. The "Daily Democrat" (newspaper) of Grand Rapids, Mich., of 

 June 1, 1879, under the caption "A New Bird," thus alludes to a 

 Warbler shot by Mr. Gunn in Ottawa Co. : "... . tlie new bird be- 

 longs in what is called the genus ndminlJiophaga ; it presents five dis- 

 tinctive points of specific dilTerence to that ol' its nearest congener, the 

 golden winged warbler {Ilebmidliophaga chnjsoplera), the chief point of 

 diffi;rence being the absence of the black throat which is a characteristic 

 peculiarity of the golden wing, the throat in the new species being white, 

 the chin is pale yellow, a faint line passing down on either side as far as 

 the check. The cheek patch which forms a prominent marking in the 

 golden winged warbler, is entirely absent. The sub-maxillary stripe is 



. not to be seen, and the lores are merely dusky ; but the most peculiar 

 feature in the coloration of the specimen is the bright yellow breast, this 

 color extending as far down as the abdomen and over the flanks. The 

 specimen is a female, and yet it exhibits a golden crown patch equal in 

 intensity to that of the male golden wing.. Mr. W. A. Gunn secured 

 this new bird. May 25th while collecting in a patch of underbrush near 

 the edge of a heavy pine foi'Cst. He deserves great credit for so valu- 

 able an addition to the avifauna of the State and in honor to his capturing 

 it and being the first to present it to public notice, it is named Helmin- 

 thophcu/a Gunnii by Dr. Gibbs, to whom it was submitted for classification." 

 Allowing for slight individual variation, have we not here a ninth White- 

 throated Golden-wing, or does '■//. (/unnii" hold its own? — H. A. Pur- 

 die, Newton, Mass. BuU. N. O. O. 4, July. 1878. /^f'^^^ " 



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ZlhenZT V^' Arboretum near Boston, Mass 



At the time he was smgmg the regular three-syllabled song He is in the 



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He was seen the foUowing day by Mr. Charles F. Faxon - James L ' i 

 Peters, Jan^aica Plain. Mass. AUk 2u. July- lgS p.^^^. [ 



