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Its stomach contained parts of a small beetle and partially digested berries 
of Ampelopsis quinquefolia , the latter also often forming the principal food 
supply of its congeneric species, T. carolinensis, during the last few days 
of its northern stay. 
Helminthophaga celata. Orange-crowned Warbler. — A fe- 
male was taken on October 9, 1876, and a second specimen seen on the 
29th of the same month. The former bird was shot while gleaning among 
the withering blossoms of a patch of golden-rods ( Solidago ), while the lat- 
ter was hopping about in a clump of leafless briers and shrubbery quite 
unsuspiciously, allowing an approach of a few feet. — E. P. Bicknell, 
Riverdale , N. Y. 
The White-bellied Nuthatch concealing Food. — While col- 
lecting in Waltham, in November, I observed a Silt a carolinensis feeding 
on a small dead locust-tree. It finally went to the end of a broken limb and 
took therefrom quite a large larva, which it tucked into a crevice, bent the 
bark upon it, gave a few light raps over the place, and then proceeded to 
do the same with two more larvae. — W. B. Dowse, Boston, Mass. 
The Great Carolina Wren ( Thryotlwrus ludovicianus ) in Con- 
necticut. — Dr. Brewer recorded in the last issue of the Bulletin (Vol. 
Ill, p. 193) the first known capture of this Wren in Massachusetts and 
New England. I now give a second instance, which is also its first Con- 
necticut record. A line from Mr. J. H. Clark informs me that he obtained 
a fine specimen at Saybrook, November 25, 1878. — H. A. Purdie, Bos- 
ton, Mass. 
Occurrence of several rare Birds near Sing Sing, N. Y, — 
The capture of the following birds is of some interest, as they are com- 
paratively rare in this locality ; also the time of year in which some of 
them were taken is unusual. 
1. Oporornis agilis. Connecticut Warbler. — I shot a male Sep- 
tember 19, 1878, in a clump of bushes, while I was looking for a Myiodi- 
octes mitratus , which I had seen a few minutes previous, and had failed to 
shoot. 
2. Collurio. — June 16, 1877, I met a boy who had a young Shrike 
which was able to fly only a few yards. He would not part with it, 
although I made him a liberal offer for it. I afterwards learned that 
it got away from him, or he let it go, the same day. I was unable to tell 
whether it was C. ludovicianus or the var. excubitor aides. At all events 
the bird must have been raised in the vicinity. 
3. Strix flammea var. americana. Barn Owl. — A farmer, a 
mile or so north of the village of Sing Sing, found in January, 1873, a 
fine specimen on the open barn floor. It was frozen stiff, and hardly 
a feather on it was displaced. He took it to Dr. G. J. Fisher for identifica- 
tion, to whom he afterwards gave it. The Doctor had it mounted, and it 
is now in his collection. 
