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General Notes. 
Nesting of the Blue Yellow-backed Warbler in Southern 
Georgia. — In reading Mr. Loomis’s interesting paper in the last Bulle- 
tin upon the Birds of Chester County, South Carolina, I noticed that he 
emphasizes the occurrence in summer of the Blue Yellow-backed Warbler 
{Parula americana). I find in some notes made at St. Mary’s, Camden Co., 
Ga., a record of a nest of this species, which was found in April, 187 7. 
The female was shot just as she was entering her nest, which until then had 
been unnoticed in the hanging tillandsia moss. The nest was finished, 
but no eggs were laid. — W. Brewster, Cambridge , Mass. 
The Tennessee Warbler destructive to Grapes. — Mr. N. S. 
Goss, of Neosho Falls, Kansas, writes me substantially as follows respect- 
ing an interesting and hitherto unrecorded trait of the Tennessee Warbler 
(Helrninthophaga peregrina) : “While visiting my brother, Capt. B. F. Goss, 
at his home in Pewaukee, Wis., the 13th of September last, he handed me 
for identification the embalmed bird herewith enclosed, remarking that 
the birds were very destructive to his grapes, puncturing them with their 
bills, and eating the pulp, or succulent part of the grapes. I at once pro- 
nounced the bird to be a young Tennessee Warbler On visiting his 
grounds we found, I should think, about twenty birds scattered singly 
here and there among the vines. They were very wild and kept continu- 
ally in motion, uttering now and then a sharp, but not loud chip, as they 
darted from the grapes into the raspberry-bushes, and when followed they 
flew to a young grove of timber near by. I succeeded, however, in killing 
four. I enclose also one of these for your examination.” 
“ These birds,” he further adds, “ are likely to prove destructive to the 
grapes in that latitude (43° and further north), but I think that in their 
southward migration they do not reach us (latitude 38°) until the grape 
season is over. I at first thought the grapes thus punctured contained the 
eggs or larvae of some insect ; but examination proved, on the contrary, 
that only the largest and healthiest-looking grapes were attacked.” — 
J. A. Allen, Cambridge, Mass. 
Blue-winged Yellow Warbler in New England. — Our knowl- 
edge of the nests and eggs of Helminthophaga pinus is limited to a very few 
examples, and although its presence in New England has been several 
times noted, and it has been affirmed to breed (see Am. Nat., VII, 629 ; 
this Bull., I, 73; Ibid., II, 16; Merriam’s Rev. Bds. Conn., p. 14), no 
mention has been made, that I am aware, of its nest and eggs having 
been actually taken.* The presence of here and there an individual in 
the breeding season has rendered it a probable occurrence, and the present 
season has made this a certainty. My friend, Mr. Harry Merrill, of Ban- 
* Since this paragraph was in type, I learn that several nests have been 
taken by Mr. Clark, of Saybrook, Conn., and that one of its nests is in the 
possession of Mr. Purdie, though no description of any has been published. 
