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General Notes. 
this conclusion as satisfactory, I should soon have forgotten the circum- 
stance, had not the bird itself acted in such a manner as to dispel the illu- 
sion. It flew before me, and alighted upon a tree far over on the other 
side of the highway, where it croaked most dismally. When I had 
reached the highway before climbing over the stone-wall, I noticed that 
the Crow had again taken flight, and as it was .flying somewhat in my 
direction, I knelt behind the wall, hoping thus to obtain a shot. When 
I ^ventured to look out, I saw the bird soaring in [circles not far away. 
Soon it approached me, but soaring very high in the air. When it got 
directly overhead, I fired ; it fell to the ground, close beside me, reeling 
and struggling violently all the distance. When I reached it I was both 
surprised and delighted to find a fine female example of the Fish Crow. 
This is, I believe, the most northerly record of the capture of this species 
in the State, though they have been taken on Long Island, where my 
friend, Mr. Theodore Rooseveldt, informed me he took a single specimen. 
2. Helminthophaga celata, (Say) Baird. On May 13, 1875, I shot a 
beautiful male of this rare species, as it was skipping among the apple- 
blossoms, close to my house, in company with a little band of Warblers 
which may have belonged to the same species. 
3. Dendrceca caerulea, (Wilson) Baird. I secured a fine male of this 
beautiful species, near my residence, May 17, 1875. 
4. Vireo philadelpliicus, Cassin. I have a single male specimen of 
this scarce species in my collection, taken near here. It was shot by my 
friend, Mr. William K. Lente, at Cold Spring, as it -hopped about in a 
tree-top, September 24, 1875. This example exhibits the intensity of 
yellow color on the under parts which characterizes the autumnal plu- 
mage. 
5. Stelgidopteryx serripennis, (Audubon) Baird. I have found this 
Swallow on but one occasion, in May, 1872, when a single pair nested in 
this neighborhood, in a bank close to a stable, beside a pond. I watched 
this pair while they constructed their nest, during which time they were 
often seen to alight close together, on a board-fence from which they de- 
scended after the rough materials of which the nest was composed, — hay 
and feathers. Late in May I captured the female sitting upon four fresh 
eggs. I had no difficulty in doing this, for the hole was quite large, and 
not very deep, so that, by baring my arm, I could easily introduce it to 
the back of the hole. These eggs are pure white, and one of them meas- 
ures .80X.53 of an inch. 
6. Ampelis garrulus, Gmel. Dr. Frederic Lente, of Cold Spring, 
showed me a beautiful Waxwing of this species which was shot near his 
residence, several winters before. 
His son, Wm. K. Lente, informed me that he shot at several Bohemian 
Waxwings that sat in an evergreen tree close to their house. This oc- 
curred several years after the first specimen was taken. — Edgar A. 
Mearns, Highland Falls , New York. 
