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The Whitb-Thkoated Warbler {Helminthophaga leucobronchialis) 

 IN Connecticut. — Through the kindness of Mr. Charles M. Carpenter 

 of Providence, R. I., I have lately had the pleasure of examining a speci- 

 men of this recently described Warbler, which was shot by that gentle- 

 man at Wauregan, Conn., May 25, 1875. The locality was a wild hill- 

 side covered with scrub-oaks and a s])rinkling of young pines. Mr. 

 Carpenter's attention was first drawn to its presence by its song, which at 

 the time he mistook for that of the Golden-winged Warbler {H. chrysop- 

 tera), though he thinks that it differed in being somewhat higher and 

 shriller. The sex of this bird was not determined by dissection, but it is 

 unquestionably a male. It agrees closely in every particular with my 

 type of the species, as does also Mr. Wood's specimen, which I have like- 

 wise seen at Philadelphia. Indeed, it would be difficult to select three 

 individuals of any species which vary so little inter se. The olive-green 

 wash which is spread over the upper parts, with the exception of the 

 nape, where an area of unmixed bluish-ash forms a narrow collar, is a 

 marked feature in all three specimens, though the silky white of throat, 

 cheeks, and lower eyelids, with the narrow restricted black line through 

 the eye, may be regarded as the most salient points. The validity of this 

 distinctly characterized species must now be regarded as established, but 

 further facts relating to its habits and distribution remain to be elicited 

 by future investigation. — William Brewster, Cambridge, Mass. 



BuaN.0.0. 3, April. 1878, p. . 



