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off through the thick growth, in order to shoot, but it became alarmed 
at my movements and suddenly dropped to the ground when a hasty 
shot failed to procure it, nor did either of the pair subsequently appear. 
The nest was placed about six feet from the ground, in the end of a 
decaying stub, the irregularities being neatly filled with green wood moss, 
both below and around the nest proper, which measures outside 5^ 
inches in depth by 4 in width. The entrance is perfectly round, nearly 
an inch in diameter, placed two inches from the top, and is strengthened 
by a framework of a few slender dead spruce twigs, woven into the out- 
side covering of green moss. Above it is well protected by a thick mass 
of the same green moss which serves so admirably to conceal it from 
prying eyes. Long, slender, dried grasses form the inner walls, just 
sufficient to give it strength, and within this a thick lining of soft white 
feathers of the Herring Gull ( Larus argentatus smitksonianus). A neater, 
warmer bird home it would be hard to conceive, and had the little archi- 
tect not incautiously left a white feather ” partly protruding from the 
entrance I doubt if I should be its possessor. Five eggs were the full 
complement in this case. They are ovate, slightly pointed at the smaller 
end, of a brilliant white ground color, very evenly but sparingly sprinkled 
with reddish-brown dots, and measure respectively .65 X .49, .65 X .48, 
.63X.49, .63X.47 and .62X.48. They are larger and less rounded than are 
the eggs of Parus atricafiillus, though resembling them somewhat in style 
of marking.— R. F. Pearsall, New York City. 
Two more specimens of Helminthofhaga leucobronchialis from 
Sing Sing, N. Y. ■ — While collecting with Mr. Eugene P. Bicknell, on 
Croton Point, among some small pines, July 24, 1881. I shot a specimen 
of the above-named Warbler. We were attracted by a flock of small birds 
flitting through the pines, composed of Chickadees, Yellow Warblers, 
Black-and- White creepers, and Blue-winged Yellow Warblers. While 
following these up we got a glimpse , at this bird and killed it as it flew 
to the ground in pursuit of an insect. This specimen differs from others 
in having a black auricular patch. Sex not absolutely determined, as . the 
bird was badly shot, but it was apparently a female. 
On August 3, 1881, I shot another specimen, in some low bushes border- 
ing a stream, near where I procured a specimen August 24, 1879.* It 
resembled that specimen in having a yellow pectoral band, but, unlike it, 
the wing-bands were normal: yellow, not white. — A. K. Fisher, M. D.. 
Sing Sing, A". Y. 
Another specimen of Siurus moiacilla at Lake George, N. Y. — 
Mr. Oliver B. Lockhart showed me a specimen of this bird which he 
shot, May 16, 1881, at Lake George. He is positive that he has seen other 
specimens, but failed in procuring them except the pairf which he and 
Mr. Bishop killed a few years ago. — A. K. Fisher, M. D., Sing Sing, N. Y. * 
* See this Bulletin, Vol. IV, No. 3, Oct. 1879, p. 234. 
f See this Bulletin, Vol. V, April, 1880, p. n. 
