Not^B om Bir<[« in Tic --if {<lnt;l«w'io<.;, 

 N.J, by F.14.Ch»pm»n. 



12. Helminthophila leucobronchialis. 



:apture of three specimens of this pu 

 •ecorded-t 



jyrt;,TI.O»t.. 1689. p. 30 V. 



Brewster's 



Warbler.— The 

 ding hybrid has been before 



+ Auk, IV, 1887, p. 348. 



The Song of Helminthophila leucobronchialis.-At Englewood, New 

 Terser on May n, 1890, I saw and positively ident.Bed an apparently 

 { .picai individual Hel,nu,^opA^la Icucob.onCaaUs. Be.ng ortunale y 

 without a <.un I was spared the temptation of shoot.ng, and dunn? the 

 ten 0° fi e:n minutes which the bird was under nry observation I bad the 

 ten o. nttcc ^ ,^^„ ji^^ 



' fof" on° T !on: xacti; resembled the rising and falling ... notes 

 of // but was° slightly weaker than the average song of that 



°Lcts-FRAN. M. CHM^MAN, A>neHcan Museu,. of Natural History, 



Nc^ York City. &Bk. ViX. July. 18&0. P. 



On Two Birds New to Louisiana. — In a small collection 

 cently purchased from C. S. Galbaith by the American Mu 

 ural History, are two species which have not been before r 

 Louisiana; they are 



Helminthophila leucobronchialis — (Am . Mus 

 La., Spring of 1891. Collector C. S. Galbraitl 

 but the example is evidently a male.) So fr 

 concerned this specir 

 it is midwav between 



im of Nat- 



nile, 



No. 54S15, Mande 



Sex not determined 

 pattern of marking is 

 ith Ilclminlhophila finiis. In coloration 

 ind typical leucobronchialis, that is, the under- 



pays a, 

 this col 



ith a patch of yellow on the breast and 1 



on the chin and abdomen, while the upper parts are bluish with 

 it ^,cc,.,=-n wash. The tips of the wing-coverts are more heavily marked 

 wkh yellow than in normal specimens of finns, a fact not in strict accord 

 with Mr. Ridgway's theory of dichromalism in this puzzling group. (C/. 

 Man. N. A. Bird's, p, 486, footnote.) If with Mr. Ridgway we assume 

 this specimen to be a "leuchroic' example of we should not expect 



that a diminution of yellow on the abdomen ^ind^ba.g.k jS'Oidd.be attended 

 bv an increase of vellcw on tht 



,nd back would be attended 



Auk, B, July .189L p. 3/Y 



Capture of a Second Specimen op Helminthophaga LEtJOOBRON- 

 CHiALis. — In the first number of the Bulletin for the year 1876, Mr. Wm. 

 Brewster described a new species of Helminthophaga {H. leucobronchialis), 

 ■which he obtained in Newtoiiville, Mass., on May 18, 1870. He says in 

 his article, " Whether it must be placed in the same category with the 

 unique Euspiza townsendi, Begulus cuvieri, eta., or, like Dendmca kirtlandi, 

 will turn up occasionally in the fitture at different points, or still again, 

 as in the case of Oeyitronyx bairdii, will be found in large numbers, time 

 alone can decide." It is with pleasure, therefore, that I can announce the 

 capture of a second specimen of this species, so new to Ornithology, and 

 particularly also because it was takeft in a locality so far distant from 

 where the first one was obtained. The specimen under consideration was 

 shot by Mr. Christopher D. Wood, on the afternoon of May 12, 1877, in 

 an apple orchard near Clifton, Delaware County, Pa. It proved to be a 

 male, and answered to the description given by Mr. Brewster. It is, with- 

 out doubt, a veritable specimen of H. leucobronchialis, and goes to prove 

 the species a good one. It was first called to my attention by Mr. Wood 

 himself, who told me that he had shot a specimen of H. leucobronchialis 

 near Clifton. He afterwards showed me the bird, which he had been com- 

 paring with the plate of the former specimen, and found it to be identical. 

 Whence these rarities come, whether they are abundant in certain sections, 

 and the characters of the females, are matters not yet known ; yet it is more 

 than likely that at no very distant day both the present species, as well as 

 Helminthophaga lawrencei, may prove to be nearly if not quite as abun- 

 dant as the other species of the same gentts. — Spencer Trotter, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. BuU. N.0.0. 2, July. XS77. p. 7f - ^0 . 



