General Notes. 
115 
47. Fugitive Notes. By J. M. W[hipple]. Ibid., VI, p. 158, — Records 
spotted eggs of the Bridge Pewee, and a set of “ six white Bluebird’s eggs” ; 
also later sets of white eggs of the same birds, which produced young. 
Notes also the capture of birds by frogs, and the destruction of Bluebird’s 
eggs by gray squirrels. 
48. The Indigo Finch. By C. W. Gedney. Ibid., VI, p. 159. — Mainly 
relating to its life in aviaries and cages. 
N. B. — The announcement is made in the closing number of Vol. VI 
of the “Familiar Science and Fancier’s Journal,” that a change in the 
name, size, and character of this journal will be made with the beginning 
of Vol. VII (1880) by the omission of the “prefix and addenda” of the 
name (see anted, p. 113, foot-note), and the exclusion of all matter not 
relating to Poultry, Pigeons, and kindred topics. The announcement is 
also made that the “ Familiar Science ” will be started “ in the spring ” 
of 1880 as a separate publication, devoted to original field notes and 
observations. — J. A. A. 
(St-neval Uatctf. 
Capture of the Stonechat near Eastport, Maine. — I have had 
sent me a Stonechat ( Saxicola cenanthe ) shot by Mr. George Moses on 
Indian Island, near Eastport, August 25, 1879. — George A. Board- 
man, Mill town, N. B. 
A Crossbilled Horned Lark. — Professor H. W. Parker, of the 
Agricultural College of Iowa, recently sent me drawings and a description 
of a Horned Lark with crossed mandibles, shot at Grinnell, Iowa, Decem- 
ber 9, 1879. Both mandibles are of the same length, rather longer and 
slenderer than usual, the upper curving downward and the lower upward, 
passing by each other and crossing in the same manner as in the Cross- 
bills. The specimen is thus truly a crossbilled Horned Lark. Deformities 
of the bill in birds is not a very rare occurrence, but examples are rare in 
which the mandibles are so fully and symmetrically crossed as in the pres- 
ent case. A similar deformity in a Magpie is recorded by Dr. Brewer 
(Familiar Science and Fancier’s Journal, June, 1879, p. 106), and a few 
other like cases are on record.- — J. A. Allen, Cambridge , Mass. 
Capture of the Prothonotary Warbler ( Protonotaria citrea) 
near Philadelphia. — A females of the Prothonotary Warbler (P. 
citrea ) was shot last May (1879) on the Schuylkill, near Gray’s Ferry 
Bridge, below Philadelphia, and is now in the writer’s collection. This is 
another addition to the very few recorded captures of this species at so 
northern a point in its Atlantic sea-board range. — Spencer Trotter, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
