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blunt apex. They were far advanced in incubation (May 28th), and 
measure, respectively, .72 X .54, .73 X .56, .75 X .56, .73 X .55. Their 
identification was perfectly satisfactory, the female being secured instantly 
after being driven from the nest. — Frank W. Langdon, Madisonville , 
Hamilton Co., Ohio. 
VlREO GILYUS AND VlREO FLAVIFRONS IN NORTHERN NEW ENG- 
LAND. — The opinion having been expressed in the Bulletin (Vol. I, p. 
73, Yol. II, p. 15), that the Yellow-throated and Warbling Yireos rarely 
occur in Northern New England, it may be worthy of mention that my 
correspondents in Vermont (East Bethel, in the very heart of the Green 
Mountains, just north of the centre of the State) send me, with parent, 
one set of the eggs of the former (Vireo jlavifrons ), and no less than four 
sets of the latter ( Vireo gilvus), and write me that they are quite common 
there. — T! M. Brewer, Boston , Mass . 
The Loggerhead Shrike in Central New York. — July 19, 1879, 
Dr. William L. Ralph of this city brought me a Shrike, shot by him in 
Marcy, Oneida Co., N. Y., within a mile of this city. The bird was a 
young female, evidently bred near here. Believing the bird to be 
Lanius ludovicianus, I sent it to Mr. Robert Ridgway, who has kindly com- 
pared it with skins of that bird from the Gulf States, with which he says it 
exactly agrees. — Egbert Bagg, Jr., Utica, N. Y. 
The Evening Grosbeak in New Mexico. — Respecting the occur- 
rence of the Evening Grosbeak ( Hesperiphona vespertina ) in New Mexico, 
Mr. F. Stevens writes me, in a recent letter, that he killed a pair in pine 
woods, January 26, 1876, and that on the 9th of May following he killed 
another pair in a box-elder grove. At this date the sexual organs were 
not enlarged. About ten days later (May 1 8 ), however, he killed at the 
same place two females and a male. The females, he thinks, would have 
laid in three or four weeks. The locality was in Southern New Mexico, 
near the Arizona line. These facts seem to favor Mr. Hen shaw’s belief 
that the species is a rare resident in portions of Arizona. — J. A. Allen, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
Note on Hesperiphona vespertina. — There is one fact connected 
with the occurrence of the Evening Grosbeak in Minnesota which is not, 
I think, generally known. This is the lateness of its departure in the 
spring. The habits of the species are so regular that it is possible by 
persistent observation to determine with considerable accuracy the time of 
the spring migration. In the spring of 1876 we kept a large flock of thirty 
or forty individuals under almost daily scrutiny until May 1 7. After this 
date nothing more was seen of them, and they evidently left for the 
north at that time. May 6 is the latest record in 1877. During the 
winter of 1877-78 the species was scarcely to be found here. The past 
winter they were here in only moderate numbers, but quite constantly. 
