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General Notes. 
black markings of the side of tbe head are intermediate in extent between 
the narrow loral and postocular streak of the Helminthophaga , and the 
broader loral patch with suborbital continuation, as seen in the Oporornis. 
In form, the bird is as nearly intermediate between the two as could well 
be imagined, the bill inclining more to that of Oporornis in size and shape, 
the feet more like those of Helminthophaga. The bird may eventually 
prove to be a distinct species ; but it certainly suggests a hybrid between 
those named above, with quite as good (in fact exactly the same) reason as 
that between Hiriindo erythrogastra and Petrochelidon lunifrons, recorded in 
a former number of this Bulletin (Yol. Ill, pp. 135, 136). This view of the 
matter is strengthened by the circumstance that in many, if not most, parts 
of the Mississippi Valley, especially in the latitude of Cincinnati, the two 
species breed very abundantly in the same localities, both nesting on the 
ground, and often having their nests situated only a few feet apart. — 
Robert Ridgway, Washington, D. C. 
Nest of Dendrceca casrulescens, ( L .) Bd. — In June, 1880, I was 
in camp in the Northern wilderness of New York, in Hamilton County, 
about twenty miles northeast of Wilmurt P. O., Herkimer Co. On the 
13th of that month it rained heavily, and as we had a trip of a few 
miles from camp to make, I allowed the weather to prevent my taking my 
gun with me. About half-way between two small lakes, about a quarter 
of a mile apart, on a high bluff covered with heavy spruce timber, I dis- 
covered the nest of a Warbler. It was built about eighteen inches from 
the ground, in the top of a dead, overturned spruce. It was a beautiful 
structure, composed outwardly of strips of white rotten wood and inner 
bark mingled with a few birch “ curls,” and neatly lined with fine black 
roots, resembling horse-hair (I have found the same material used as 
lining by the Olive-backed Thrush), and the finer white quills of our 
common porcupine, some of which were even large enough for the barbs 
to be quite perceptible to the naked eye. The nest measured as follows : 
outside diameter, 4 inches ; inside diameter, 1 f inches ; outside depth, 
3 inches ; inside depth, 1 1 inches. The three eggs it contained almost 
exactly resembled in size and markings the eggs of the Redstart, except 
that the spots were mostly in a crown around the larger end. I was 
unable to identify the bird, and, having nothing with which to kill her, 
left the nest as I found it. The next day, June 14, I returned with my 
gun and shot the female, a Black- throated Blue Warbler, as she left 
the nest. Having secured the mother, I turned to the nest, only to find 
three small birds, the eggs since the previous day having hatched, greatly 
to my disappointment, as the reader may imagine. — Egbert Bagg, Jr., 
Utica, N. Y. 
Note on Giraud’s Muscicapa “brasieri.” — While looking over a 
copy of Giraud’s “ Description of Sixteen new Species of North American 
Birds,” I noticed that the twelfth species is named Muscicapa brasieri. 
