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General Notes . 
Mr. Robert Lawrence has informed me of the interesting fact of this 
species having bred about the same early date at Flushing, L I. [see below]. 
So far as I am aware, this is the first record of its breeding on Lono- 
Island, though I learn from Mr. Akhurst of Brooklyn, that in 1843 a pair 
reared a brood of five young at Valley Grove. At Riverdale, the present 
season, I observed this species in full song on April 20 and May 6 ; and 
Mr. Kellogg informs me that the male bird of the breeding pair remained 
about his place in full song for at least two days after its nest had been 
taken. — Eugene P. Bicknell, Riverdale, New York City. 
The Great Carolina Wren breeding on Long Island, N. Y. — 
In a letter recently received from Mr. Robert Lawrence, he informs me 
that on May 8, 1879, he was fortunate enough to take a female Great 
Carolina Wren at Flushing, Long Island, and on the following day saw 
the male and a brood of four young birds just able to fly. Although 
record of two captures of this Wren has been given for New York Island 
by Mr. George N. Lawrence, I think this is the first record of its breed- 
ing in that locality. — Ruthven Deane, Cambridge, Mass. 
Record of Additional Specimens of the White-throated 
Warbler ( Hehninthophaga leiicobroncliialis ). — In this Bulletin, Vol. Ill, 
p. 199, Mr. William Brewster describes the fifth then known specimen 
of the above-named Warbler. I can now announce three more, and allude 
to what I presume is a fourth : — 
1. A very typical example shot by Mr. Samuel Jillson, in Hudson, 
Mass., in May or June, 1858. By considerable correspondence I traced 
this specimen to the collection of Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. 
Prof. P. A. Chadbourne, without hesitation, very kindly sent it to me 
for examination. The under surface is clean, silky white, with no trace 
of yellow anywhere ; back pure ashy. It was labelled “ H. pinus, male.” 
This capture antedates all but the Philadelphia Academy specimen, and 
is the second Massachusetts occurrence. 
2. A male is in possession of William W. Coe of Portland, Conn., 
taken there May 22, 1875, which I have been able to handle by his 
obligingly loaning me the bird. This one departs from what we consider 
type specimens in the amount of yellow on both the upper and under parts. 
There is a broad band or blotch of this color on the breast, with a slight 
suffusion on the chin and the rest of the ventral aspect. The whole 
dorsal plumage, from the crown, is faintly washed with the same tint. 
Compare this and next with Mr. Brewster’s account of E. I. Shores’s Suf- 
field, Conn., specimen, above alluded to. 
3. At date of penning these data the following comes from my friend 
J. N. Clark, at Saybrook, Conn. : “ Took a fine male II. leucobronchialis, 
May 30 [1879] ; — an exceptional specimen, with a patch of bright yellow 
across the breast from the bend of wings. Thought it was pinus when I 
fired ; notes and habits the same.” Mr. Clark’s is the fourth for Con- 
necticut. 
