264 BIRDS—SYLVICOLIDA. 
In regard to the first, second, and third specimens ‘known, Professor 
Baird says (Rev. Am. Birds, 1865, 207) : 
‘‘Until recently the only authenticated and known specimen of this species was the 
type, No. 4,363, killed by Dr. Kirtland, near Cleveland, Ohio, May, 1851, and prepared 
by myself. I have, however, lately found a second skin in the collection of Dr. Samuel 
Cabot, Jr., of Boston, taken at sea between the island of Abacu and Cuba. The plumage 
is not quite so matured as in the type, and lacks the dark spots on the jugulum; it is, 
however, otherwise very similar. A third specimen (female) is reported in the Ohio 
Farmer for June 9, 1860, as killed that season near Cleveland, and preserved by Mr. R. 
K. Winslow, who states that the late Wm. Case, of Cleveland, also killed a specimen, 
bat did not preserve it. Dr. Hoy also thinks that he has seen it at Racine. A careful 
search in the vicinity of Cleveland, about the middle of May, will probably be rewarded 
by the discovery of additional specimens.” 
The above reference to the Ohio Farmer, June 9th (ix, 1860, 179), pre- 
sum-«bly from the pen of Jno. Kirkpatrick, is as follows: 
‘CA specimen of this tare bird (Dendroica kirtlandit) was shot a short time ago near the 
‘old river bed,’ Cleveland, by Mr. Darby, of University Heights. It was identified by 
Rk. K. Winslow, preserved and mounted by him, and proved to bea female. Until now 
there was but one specimen of ‘this bird known, that obtained by Dr. Kirtland, now in 
the collection of the Smithsonian, at Washington. If was first described by Mr. Baird 
in the Annals of the New York Lyceum (1852), and aftérwards in Cassin’s Illustrations. 
“The present specimen is more lead-colored on the upper parts than Cassin’s figure, 
but clearly resembles the coloring in another plate which we have not seen. Mr. Wins- 
low informs us that Wm. Case, Esq , once shot a specimen, but it was so badly injured 
as to be unfit for preserving.” 
This specimen unaccountably disappeared from the possession of Mr. 
Winslow in a few days after its reception, and it has never been heard 
of since. 
The fourth specimen, Mr. Dury’s, is finely mounted, and ornaments 
his choice collection of Ohio birds. 
The sixth and seventh specimens were recorded by myself (Bull. Nutt. 
Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 58), as follows: 
‘‘T have been informed by Mr. R. K. Winslow and other ornithologists of Cleveland, 
Ohio, that two specimens of Dendreca kirtlandi were taken at Rockport, Cuyahoga 
county, Ohio, by William and John Hall, during the past season. One of these is a fe- 
wale, the first of the sex taken. Both were captured within two niiles of the spot where 
the original specimen was taken by Dr. Kirtland. A third specimen is said tp have been 
taken in that vicinity about the same time, but I was unable to obtain any definite in- 
formation concerning it.” 
If not mistaken, I was informed that these birds were observed near 
the ground, on brush-heaps and undergrowth. 
Mr. Corey, in recording the specimen taken by him on Andros Island 
Bahamas (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 118), gives the only deserip- 
