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4. He l m in thoph il a rupicapilla (Wils.). 
5. Helm in thophila virginiee (Baird). 
6. Hehninthophila celata (Say). 
7. Helminthophila peregrina (Wils.). 
8. Helminthophila lucice (Cooper). — Robert Ridgway, Washington, 
D. C. 
Dendrceca palmarum again in Massachusetts. — The first capture 
of Dendroeca palmarum in Massachusetts was that of a single bird 
taken by Mr. Arthur Smith at Brookline, about the middle of October, 
1878. (See note by Mr. Ruthven Deane, Bull. Nutt. Club, Vol. IV, page 
60.) I have the pleasure of announcing the capture of two additional 
specimens. The first was taken at Cambridge, September 13, 1880, and 
was shot on an apple tree while in company with several other War- 
blers. The second was shot at Belmont, September 7, 1881, from the top 
of a yellow pine. The marked difference in the intensity of the yellow 
of the breast and under tail-coverts first attracted my attention to this 
bird. Never having met with D. pabnaru 77 i hypochrysea in the autumn, 
I thought both birds to be of this variety until quite recently, when my 
friend Mr. William Brewster identified them for me and found them to be 
genuine D. palmarmn. — Henry M. Spelman, Cambridge, Mass. 
Ampelis cedrorum as a Sap-sucker. — The Cedar, or Cherry-Bird 
seems never to be very abundant in this section of the State; but early in 
the spring, when the birds first arrived from the south, I saw quite a large 
number of them, and observed what was to me a new habit. They resort- 
ed to the maple trees for the purpose of gathering the sap flowing from 
wounds made by the ice in the bark of the smaller branches. The birds 
would grasp a branch or twig with their claws, and partially swing them- 
selves under it and drink the sap where it hung in drops. For a week or more 
these birds were so plentiful and so. intent upon their sap-gathering that 
one was almost certain to find a flock wherever there was a group of 
maples. I took considerable pains to ascertain if this habit was shared by 
any other bird, but did not observe a single instance. In the Eastern 
States I have often seen squirrels drinking sap from the branches in this 
way, but never before saw it done by a bird. — F. E. L. Beal. A 7 nes , 
Iowa. 
Capture of Plectropha 7 tes lapponicusnx Chester, South Carolina. — 
Mr. Leverett M. Loomis writes me that on January 1, 1881, he shot a single 
individual of this species from a small flock of Shore Larks, which were 
feeding upon offal in a barn-yard. There appears to be no previous 
record of the occurrence of this species in South Carolina. — J. A. Allen, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
Occurrence of Coturniculus lecontei in Chester County, South 
Carolina. — Near the towm of Chester, S. C., on the dividing ridge 
between the Broad and Catawba Rivers, there is an “old-field” of some 
