. The Auk . in the last (January) number of Tlie Aukrequire correction. Page T,^, 7 lines from bottom, for contitined read combined. 36, under figure in text, ior near A read near B. 36, 6 lines from bottom, io\- jig. i vend Jig. 2.• 37, note I, before Feathers from Skins omit Cast-off. 38, Explanation of Fig. i, for No. 43gb read No. 43g7. 38, Explanation of Fig. 2, for near B fig. 1 read tiear A fig. i. 38, last line, after obj. insert 2mm. oil inim. 39, next to last line, for C fig. j read C Jig. 4. 118, last line, for Cf. Salvadori read Cfi. Allen, Auk, XIII, 1896, 244. 119, near bottom, f


. The Auk . in the last (January) number of Tlie Aukrequire correction. Page T,^, 7 lines from bottom, for contitined read combined. 36, under figure in text, ior near A read near B. 36, 6 lines from bottom, io\- jig. i vend Jig. 2.• 37, note I, before Feathers from Skins omit Cast-off. 38, Explanation of Fig. i, for No. 43gb read No. 43g7. 38, Explanation of Fig. 2, for near B fig. 1 read tiear A fig. i. 38, last line, after obj. insert 2mm. oil inim. 39, next to last line, for C fig. j read C Jig. 4. 118, last line, for Cf. Salvadori read Cfi. Allen, Auk, XIII, 1896, 244. 119, near bottom, for 375^: read 375^/. 123, line 8 from bottom, for 97 read 96. 125, line 15 from top, for Bonap. read (Bonap.). 125, line 17 from top, for A. O. U. Comm. MS. read Faxon, Auk, XIII, 1896, 215. 129, after line 2 from top, insert Genus EMBERNAGRA Lesson, p. 245. This becomes 131, line 5 from top, for (Lath.) read (Gmel.). 131, line 15 from top, for Wils. read (Wils.). ^ >w O >u O . / >•? /•■>. THE AUK: A JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY. VOL. XIV. July, 1897. no. 3. A STUDY OF THE PHILADELPHIA VIREO {VIREOPHILADELPHICUS). BY JONATHAN DWIGHT, JR., M. D. E/afe 11. The Philadelphia Vireo was first described as a new speciesnearly half a century ago by Mr. John Cassin, from a specimentaken near Philadelphia, Pa., in September, 1842 (Proc. Sci. Phila., V, Feb. 1851, p. 153, pi. 10, fig. 2). It wasmany years later before anything was known of the breedinghabits of the birds, and an article by Mr. William Brewster ( Orn. Club, V, 1880, pp. 1-7), who found the species rathercommonly distributed over the Lake Umbagog region in westernMaine, remains to-day the only sketch we have of them. I shouldperhaps except the notes of Mr. E. Seton Thompson who, in 1884found a nest and eggs near Fort Pelly, Assiniboia, and brieflyrecorded the circumstance (Seton [= Thompson], Auk, II, 1885,pp. 305, 306). Few other observers have been favored with morethan rare gl


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