A Specimen of Helminthopila leucobronchialis in New Jersey. — A 



fine male was shot on May ii, 1883, at Maple wood, Essex Co., N. J., 

 feeding in tree-tops on the blossoms of the oak tree. This, I believe is 

 the first specimen for this State. 



Not being able to satisfactorily identify the bird I sent it to Mr. E. P. 

 Bicknell, whose remarks on the subject I give, as follows : "The specimen 



Helmiiitkophila leucobronchialis from Maple wood, New Jersey, is similar 

 to an adult male taken by Dr. A. K. Fisher, at Sing Sing, N. Y., August 

 39, 1879, and recorded in B. N. O. C, IV, 4, 234. As I recall Dr. Fisher's 

 specimen, the present one differs chietly in having the yellow breast-band 

 less pronounced, both in color and outline. The wing-bars are narrow, 

 conspicuously separated, and, as in Dr. Fislier's example, whiter than in 

 many individuals of H. piiius. Tlie specimen shows one peculiarity 

 which I do not remember to have observed in others, or to have seen 

 recorded, namely, a distinct bleaching of the ashy-blue of the dorsal 

 surface on the rump and proximal tail-coverts. Carried a few steps farther 

 this tendency would have given us a Hclminthoftltila with a white rump! 

 This bird is the first for New Jersey. Mr. Brewster alludes to a specimen 

 from Nyack, "New Jersey" (B. N. O. C, VI, 4, 2191). The specimen 

 referred to, however, was from Nyack, Rockland Co., New York, the error 

 in the record being obviously from some mishap in publishing. But 

 Nyack, N. Y., is within a few miles of the New Jersey State line."— C. B. 

 RiCKER, A^cw Tork City. Auk, 2, Oct., 1885. p. 3 7 • 



Helminthophila leucobronchialis in New Jersey. — A specimen of this 

 hybrid was killed about ten miles from this place by Mr. Auguste Blanche! 

 in the latter part of May, 1859. The entire dorsal plumage is tinged with 

 greenisli-yellow; the throat and cheeks are pure white, very lightly tinged 

 with yellowish ; upper lireast grayish ; breast yellow, extending toward the 

 crissum; a small black line tlirough the rigliteye, a large grayish patch 

 behind the left; wing-bars yellow. The whole plumage resembles some- 

 what that of the female //. i:///'r.'io/i/c;'«, but the grayish on the breast is 

 not so deep. — E. Cart-etox TmiRBER, Morristown, N. J. 



Auk, 3. July. 1880. p. */f/ . 



Helminthophila leucobronchialis in New JerseyT-May 1887 a fine 

 male specimen of this bird was shot near this place. It difters fr^m the ' 

 type m havmg a spot of lemon yellow on the breast and being washed 

 lightly with the same color on abdomen and back.-E. Carleton Thur- 

 BBR, MorriUo^n. N. J. 4^ g^^^ 1887» i»i ^ ^C^ . 



Additional Captures of Helminthophila leucobronchialis. — The spec- 

 imens below recorded were taken at Englewood, N. J., in a densely thick 

 eted, low, wet woods. 



1. (Now in Coll. Dr. A. K. Fisher, No. 2646, ? , May 15, 1886.) Rump 

 and interscapulars as in H. pinus ; wing-bars intermediate between H. 

 chyysoptera and films. A yellow pectoral band and a slight suffusion of 

 same color on the underparts. 



2. (Coll. F. M. C, No. 903, 9 ad., June 26, 1887.) Immediately after 

 the capture of this specimen I was attracted by the voices of young birds, 

 and a search revealed, almost directly overhead, four young being fed by 

 a typical male pinus. For between four and five hours this family was 

 closely watched, and the non-appearance of a female during that period 

 renders it possible that the missing parent was the captured bird. Three 

 of the young were taken, all typical of finus, the fourth escaped me. 



Taking into consideration the fact that the female is in worn breeding 

 plumage, the abdomen being denuded of feathers, it may be said to agree 

 with the type oi leucobronchialis., Why not consider these typical birds as 

 the ultimate result of a union between pinus and chrysoptcra, achieved by 

 series of unions between the original hybrids with themselves or either of 

 the parent species, in which both black and yellow are finally eliminated.? 



If this be true the intermediate specimens should outnumber the typical 

 ones, and we have recorded, therefore, twenty-one birds approaching //«h5 

 and chrysoptera more or less closely and but eight agreeing with leuco- 

 bronchialis as originally described. 



3. (Coll. F. M. C, No. 933, $ im., July 31, 1887.) Dorsal surface and 

 wing-bars as in pinus, with an extremely faint grayish cervical collar. 

 Breast yellow, a flush of the same appearing on the white of the throat and 

 abdomen. Taken within less than one hundred feet of the place where 

 No. 903 was secured. The migration of finus had not yet commenced, and 

 this bird, which was undoubtedly born in the vicinity, would answer ad. 

 mirably as the missing fourth bird of the brood before mentioned, — Frank 

 M. Chapman, American Museum Natural History. New JfyvJi City.. 



