0«n«ral Notes 



Mr. Brewster's long-named 'S^arbler, Helminthofhila leucobro?ichialis, 

 would seem to be a regular summer visitant, as we have taken it now for 

 I seven successive years. It appears by May lo, and is in full song until 

 i the middle of June. 



Continued experience leads me to think that the song of this puzzling 

 bird is not, as has been stated, any criterion by which to distinguish it. 

 Sometimes they sing exactly like chrysoptera, again like pinus, and often 

 have notes peculiar to themselves. A trained ear may 6nd the bird, but it 

 needs the eye to properly identify it. 



At the present writing I am not inclined to believe leucobronchialis a 

 hybrid, but hope to have more to say on this subject at another time. 



Ank X, Aprtt, 1893. 0.208-. 9 



General NoteB. /o, 



1 All of the Wai-blers referred to inhabit similar ground, and, with the 

 'exception of lawrencei, are occasionally taken the same day. It is safe to 

 say that chrysoftera is common here, then in order of abundance come 

 leucobronchialis and pinus, latvrencei being extremely rare. — Jno. H. 

 Sage, Portland, Conn. 



AxLk X, Apr. 1893 p. 209 

 General Notes. 



Helminthophila leucobronchialis. — On July i, 1893,1 found an adult 

 //. leucobronchialis with two young in a small tract of alder swamp and 

 woodland of North Haven, Conn. They were little disturbed at my 

 presence, and I watched them carefully for some time. The adult fed 

 both young at short intervals, leaving little doubt of its relationship to 

 them. On July 4, they were still in the same locality, and I collected all 

 three. Possibly the remainder of the family had been killed, as a careful 

 search on both days through the adjacent country failed to disclose any 

 other member of the genus Helminthophila. 



Decomposition was so far advanced before I could prepare the adult 

 that I was unable to determine its sex. The fact tliat it never sang while 

 I was watching it, together with the generally dull color of its plumage, 

 lead me to think it a female. 



Unfortunately both of the young were still principally in the olive, 

 downy plumage of nestlings, but enough of the final feathering had 

 appeared on the throat, breast, and upper parts to make it certain that 

 one, and probable that the other, would have become a typical specimen 

 of H. pinus. The wing-bars of the young differ, being in the most mature 

 specimen narrow and almost white, and in the other broader and light 

 yellow. The plumage of the young would seem to indicate that the 

 missing parent was an H. pinus. 



These specimens, I think, tend to confirm the theory of Mr. Ridgway 

 that //. leucobronchialis is not a valid species, but merely a leucochroic 

 phase oi H. pinus. — 'Lovis B. Bishop, M. D., New Haven, Conn. 



▲xik XI. Jan. 1894 p. 79-80 



1032. irhe White-cheeked Warbler, Helminthophila leucobronchialis.'] ^ 

 ByJ. N.Clark. , No. 6, p. 43.— Record of a specimen seen f but not '-'•^j 



taken) at Saybrook, Conn, "in the spring of iSSo." 3ail!j, NotSsNat. HW, ll 



Vermivora leucobronchialis. "Brewster's Warbler. — Although I 

 have collected near New Haven some twenty males of this phase of plum- 

 age of V. pinus, not until May 23, 1910, did I discover one without trace 

 of yellow on back or lower parts. A rather interesting fact is that while ■ 

 practically all the others had the song of V. pinus this bird had that of 

 V. chrysoptera, and had the wing bars of the latter. \ 



What I believe is the first young bird to be recorded showing this phase ■ 

 of plumage is a young male which I collected in New Haven on September ; 

 12, 1907, in first winter plumage. On this the yellow below is much paler ; 

 than in typical H. pinus and fades into white on the throat and sides of j 

 the neck. I 

 AVk 27. Oat«l&10 p. 4^ ^ J. I 



