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Olive-backed Thrush ( Turdus swainsoni ) in Texas. — I col- 
lected at Gainesville, Texas, May 10, 1878, a Thrush which I marked 
Turdus sioainsoni, after close examination, having previously noted Dr. 
Coues’s remark, “ not recorded from Southwestern U. S.” Professor 
Snow mentions its rarity in Kansas. Dr. J. C. Merrill, Mr. George B. 
Sennett, and Lieutenant McCauley omit it from their lists of Texas birds. 
I sent a box of birds to Mr. Greene Smith, of Peterboro’, N. Y., among 
them being the specimen in question, requesting Mr. Smith to notify me 
if they were correctly named. He stated in reply that Mr. J. G. Bell, 
of New York, agreed with him upon the identification of the Thrush. 
I saw several of the birds at the time the specimen in question was se- 
cured. — G. H. Ragsdale, Gainesville, Tex. 
Albinism in the Tufted Titmouse. — In his article on “Albinism 
and Melanism in North American Birds” (this Bulletin, January, 1879, 
pp. 27-30), Mr. Ruthven Deane records the occurrence of a partially 
albinotic specimen of the Black-capped Titmouse, with the remark that 
it is “the only instance of albinism occurring among the Paridce ” of 
which he has heard. It may be of interest to note in this connection, 
that the writer’s collection contains two examples of the Tufted Titmouse 
(Lopliophanes bicolor ) which illustrate this abnormal condition. In one 
of these (female, November 29, 1877) nine of the rectrices are entirely 
white, one has a white blotch at the distal end, and the other two are 
normal. The order of arrangement is as follows, beginning at the left 
side : 3 white, 1 normal, 3 white, 1 normal, 1 white, 1 blotched, 2 white ; 
and owing to the distribution of the gray feathers towards the centre, the 
bird when flying presented a somewhat striking resemblance to the Black 
Snowbird ( Junco hyemalis). The second specimen of L. bicolor (male, 
March 22, 1874) has several white feathers scattered through the black 
of the forehead. — Frank W. Langdon, Madisonville, Hamilton Co., 0. 
Hooded Warbler in Western New York. — This beautiful spe- 
cies has been noted as of not uncommon occurrence near Riverdale, N. Y. 
(Bull. Nut. Orn. Club, Yol. Ill, p. 130), and as of rare occurrence in 
Lewis County, N. Y. (Bull. Nut. Orn. Club, Vol. IY, p. 7). From nearly 
three months’ study of the bird in Northern Cayuga and Wayne Counties 
(N. Y.), we are able to give a pretty correct account of its occurrence in 
this section. We first met with the bird July 13, 1878, in the woods bor- 
dering the shore of Lake Ontario, near Fair Haven. Our attention was 
attracted by a loud alarm note, not unlike that of the Golden-crowned 
Thrush (Siurus auricapillus ). We secured the female on the spot, the 
