Helminthophila lawrencei. On May 31, 1905, while collecting with Mr. 

 H. W. Beers and Mr. J. C. A. Meeker, I secured in East Haven, Conn., a 

 male H. lawrencei having the full black chin. As it was undoubtedly a 

 breeding bird we searched the vicinity carefully for the female and nest 

 but without result, and absence from town prevented my looking for the 

 young later that summer. 



Believing some of the young might return to that neighborhood this year 

 I revisited it on May 24, and collected another male within 300 yards of 

 where the other was taken. This bird has the feathers of the chin yellow; 

 the extreme upper throat black at base tipped with yellow; and the lower 

 throat black, each barb of each feather being narrowly edged with yellow, 

 these giving a brownish effect. In other respects it resembles the bird 

 taken last year, except that the wing-bars are more yellow, and shows the 

 plumage that might be expected if, as I believe, it was the young of that 

 bird with a female H. pinus. Fourteen others of this genus examined 

 within half a mile of this spot the same morning were all Blue-winged 

 Warblers. 



Vermivora lawrencei. Lawrence's Warblee.— On May 20, 1909, 

 I collected an adult male less than two hundred yards from where those 

 recorded in 'The Auk' for 1906, Vol. XXIII, p. 345, were taken. This 

 bird closely resembles that taken May 24, 1906, but the black of the 

 throat is purer. The capture of three males at the same place in different 

 years would tend to show that this phase of plumage is hereditary . 



On June 4 of the same year, while collecting with Mr. Herbert K. Job 

 in Woodmont, I obtained another typical male Lawrence's Warbler, 

 After about two hours' search a female Blue-winged Warbler {V. pinus) 

 was flushed from a nest containing 4 of her eggs and 2 of the Cowbird 

 (Molothrus ater) about thirty feet from the tree where the male Lawrence's 

 was shot. As no others of this genus were noted within a quarter of a 

 mile I have no doubt these birds were mated. The nest, eggs and location 

 were typical of V. pinus, as was to be expected. All are now in my col- 

 lection. — Louis B. Bishop, New Haven, Conn. 



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