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Getteral Notes . 
Myiodioctes canadensis in Kansas. — In watching for the early 
arrivals of the returning migrants, I shot August 29, at this place, on the 
banks of the Neosho River, a female Canadian Flycatching Warbler. 
As the birds inhabit the low swampy timbered lands, this is without 
doubt their extreme western limit, and is therefore worthy of note. — 
N. S. Goss, Neosho Foils, Kansas. 
Capture of the Worm-eating Warbler in Massachusetts. — On 
September 19, 1881, I shot in some low moist woods in Cambridge, a 
fine female Worm-eating Warbler ( Helmitherus vermivorus). This is 
the first capture of this bird in Massachusetts. The only previous note 
of its occurrence in this State on record is that of Mr. W. A. Stearns, who 
says he saw one at Easthampton, Mass, (see New England Bird Life, p. 
111). — Henry M. Spelman, Cambridge , Mass. 
Melospiza lincolni breeding in New York again. — On page 197 
of Volume III of this Bulletin, is an account of my taking the nest of 
this bird in 1878. To this record I now desire to add another. On June 
16, 1881, on the shore of Otter Lake (or Pond) Hamilton Co., N. Y. 
(about half a mile from the locality in which I took the nest in 1878), I 
flushed a Lincoln’s Finch from her nest. She was so quick in her flight 
that I missed her with both barrels and was obliged to retire into the 
bushes and wait her return, and as I stood up to my ankles in wet moss 
and mud among the alders, being devoured by mosquitoes, blackflies, and 
punkies, I kept saying to myself “If it is only a Lincoln’s Finch it will 
pay for all this.” But I could scarcely believe my good fortune when, 
after returning to the nest and killing the female bird, I took her out of 
the water, where she fell, and saw it really was the desired bird. The 
nest was situated almost exactly like the other, in wet spongy ground 
at the edge of the lake, not under any bush or weed, but quite well 
concealed by last year’s grasses. Diameter outside, 3.75 inches; in- 
side, 2 inches; depth outside, 2.25 inches; inside, 1.75 inches. It was 
composed of fine grasses loosely put together, and set down nearlj' level 
with the moss. The eggs, which were four, slightly advanced in incuba" 
tion, were exactly like those taken in 1878, except that the spots of 
reddish-brown were rather larger and more marked.— Egbert Bagg, Jr .. 
Utica , N. T. 
Xanthocephalus icterocephalus in Lower Canada. — While on 
the Lower St. Lawrence, in July last, Mr. N. A. Comeau handed me for 
identification the skin of a Yellow-headed Blackbird (. Xanthocephalus 
icterocephalus') that he shot, early in September (“about Sept. 4”), 1878, 
jn his dooryard, at Gedbout River, Province of Quebec, Canada — six miles 
west of the entrance to the Gulf. — C. Hart Merriam, M. D., Locust 
Grove , New York. 
