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General Notes. 
General ftotcs. 
Capture of the Hudsonian Titmouse in Rhode Island. — Novem- 
ber i, 1880, my friend Mr. Thomas Adcock brought to me a Hudsonian 
Titmouse (. Parus hudsonicus ) which he had just killed in Smithfield, 
R. I., near the northwestern limit of the city of Providence. I obtained 
it of him for my cabinet. Its identity was not suspected by Mr. Adcock 
till he picked it up. It was in company with two other Chickadees, 
but he was unable to obtain either of them, and could not determine 
whether they were of the same species as the one taken. — Frederic T. 
Jencks, Providence, R. /. 
A Second Occurrence of the Hudsonian Titmouse ( Parus kud- 
sonicus) in Massachusetts. — On the morning of October 7, 1880, 
while hunting Woodcock in Concord I satisfactorily identified a specimen 
of this northern Titmouse. I was crossing an opening when a familiar 
and emphatic tchifi, tchee-day , day , greeted me from an isolated red cedar 
near at hand. Upon closely examining the tree I soon spied the 
author of the sound hopping about near the top. The next moment he 
flew and pitched into a thicket of low birches on the edge of the neigh- 
boring woodland. Here I several times got very near him — too near in 
fact to use the heavy charges with which I was alone supplied ; but I so 
plainly saw his light brown cap and chestnut sides that 1 scarcely regret- 
ted it, when at length he somehow gave me the slip and disappeared. 
The preceeding night had been sharp and frosty and the wood edges 
were alive with migratory Warblers, Thrushes, and Sparrows. Although 
specimens of the Hudsonian Titmouse have lately been taken in Con- 
necticut and Rhode Island, I believe my former Concord record has 
until now remained the only definite one for Massachusetts. — William 
Brewster, Cambridge, Mass. 
The Great Carolina Wren ( Thryo tliorus ludovicianus) in- New 
Hampshire. — While collecting in a thick piece of woods at Rve Beach, 
N. H., my attention was attracted bv a loud clear note which I failed to 
recognize. After following the sound for some time the bird, enticed by 
the imitation of its note, showed itself for a moment and was secured. It 
proved to be the Great Carolina Wren. While picking it up another was 
heal'd scolding in the neighboring thicket, but upon my nearer approach it 
vanished in the bushes, scarcely allowing me a momentary glimpse. This 
happened August 7. and is, I believe, the most northern appearance of 
this bird on record. — Henry M. Spelman, Cambridge . Mass. 
Swainson’s Warbler ( Heloncea swainsdni') in Texas. — The range of 
this rare species has been very materially extended by its discovery in 
