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General Notes. 
I kept a close watch on them during May, and found them in their ac- 
customed place as late as May 19 ; thus confirming the previous late date. 
Before their departure both male and female become very full plumaged, 
and are more than usually striking in appearance when seen among the 
thick green foliage of late May. — Thomas S. Roberts, Minneapolis, 
Minn. \_Comm. by E. C.~\ 
Southward Range of Centrophanes lapponica. — A letter from 
Howard Ayers, dated Fort Smith, Ark., February 26, 1879, states : “ The 
Lapland Longspur is found as far south as the central part of Arkansas. 
They appear in this part of the State about November, in small flocks, but 
as it grows cold they collect in immense numbers and scatter again as 
spring comes (about 1st of February). Two thirds of these large flocks are 
Missouri Skylarks ( Neocorys spraguei). I have never seen the Longspurs 
in companies by themselves, but always more or less mixed with the 
Larks.” — Elliott Coues, Washington, D. C. 
Henslow’s Bunting ( Coturniculus henslowi ) near Washington. — 
About the middle of July of this year, while walking through a meadow 
some five miles west of Washington, in Fairfax County, Virginia, I was 
quite surprised to hear near by a rude bird-note, which sounded familiar, 
although I had not heard it since the summer of 1871. It was the peculiar 
sewick ' of Henslow’s Bunting. The time was about dusk, the brighter 
stars having made their appearance, and there seemed to be some half- 
dozen individuals answering one another from different directions. Upon 
returning by the same route a few days afterward, I heard these birds 
in every weedy meadow through which I passed, and soon discovered that 
the species in question was not only an extremely common bird, but gen- 
erally distributed, in suitable localities. A friend who accompanied me on 
the first occasion, and whose attention was directed to the note, returned 
to the same locality a few days after, and with a companion has made 
one or two subsequent visits, the result of which has been the securing 
of numerous specimens, including the young in first plumage. — Robert 
Ridgway, Washington, D. C. 
The Snowbird ( Junco liyemalis ) in Southern Michigan in Sum- 
mer. — I take pleasure in announcing the occurrence here in summer of 
the Blue Snowbird. I saw it on July 8 (1879), and was often within ten 
or twelve feet of it. I was without my gun, or I would have secured 
it. This, however, is not the first instance of the occurrence of this bird 
in Southern Michigan in midsummer. Mr. Charles W. Gunn, of Grand 
Rapids, Mich., shot a male and female, July 13, 1878, near Grand Rapids, 
in Ottawa County, which were apparently breeding. — H. A. Atkins, 
Locke, Ingham Co., Mich. 
Nesting of the Snowbird ( Junco hyemalis ) in Eastern Ten- 
nessee. — In conversation with the late Rev. R. Bidwell, some time 
