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General Notes. 
where I have also deposited the female. The latter is the specimen men- 
tioned by Purdie (this Bull., Yol. IV, p. 184) as being probably the ninth 
known. Compare Cory’s description of a female (this Bull., Vol. IV, 
p. 118). — Elliott Coues, Washington , D. C. 
Note on Oporornis agilis. — I first met with this species in the fall 
of 1879, while collecting in company with Samuel N. Rhoads, about six 
miles north of Philadelphia. We procured three specimens, one female and 
two young males. The following fall about six specimens were taken in 
the same locality as those of the previous season. They appeared to in- 
habit moist thickets, running about on the ground like the Siuri. The pres- 
ent fall (1879) we have noticed a great departure from the foregoing. No 
less than seventeen specimens were seen (a number of which were taken), 
and these, instead of being found in thickets, were observed to frequent 
stubble-fields, principally wheat-stubble, though generally in close prox- 
imity to a thicket to which they would repair on being disturbed. Yet 
several were seen at a considerable distance from any shrubbery. They 
were exceedingly fat, so fat indeed that they were scarcely able to fly. 
Mr. Rhoads informs me that they have been quite numerous in Delaware 
County this fall, where they also seem to prefer the stubble to the thicket. 
We have yet to meet with them in the spring migrations. — William L. 
Collins, Frankfort , Penn . 
The Redstart in Washington Territory. — In a recent letter 
Captain Bendire mentions having procured an example of the common 
Redstart ( Setophaga ruticilla ) near Fort Walla Walla. It was an adult 
male, and was shot August 24, 1879. Although previously recorded as 
common in Utah by Messrs. Allen and. Ridgway, it appears not to have 
been before noted from a point so far to the northwest. — T. M. Brewer, 
Boston , Mass. 
Additional Record of the Loggerhead Shrike in Maine. — My 
correspondent Mr. H. R. True has loaned me a fine specimen of Lanius 
ludovicianus (strongly approaching the excubitorides type), which was taken 
at Abbott, 25th May, 1878. The nest of this specimen was also found 
built in an apple-tree, and contained four eggs. — Ruthven Deane, 
Cambridge , Mass. 
The Nesting of the Common Crossbill. — A few days since, look- 
ing over my files of old ornithological correspondence, I found a letter 
written April 21, 1851, containing some notes on the nesting of the 
Loxia americana that seem to me too valuable to be lost. The writer is 
Mr. Charles S. Paine, the veteran ornithologist of Randolph, Vt. The nest 
spoken of is the one referred to in “ History of North American Birds,” 
Vol. I, p. 487, where it will be seen the mistake occurs of making the 
