.--Eastern Kingbird, Tyrannus tyrannus. Jones (1859, p. 90) listed
the "Tyrant Fly-Catcher" as numerous in Bermuda in April, 1850. Capt. Reid
(1884, pp. 905-906) recorded a number in April, 1875, took several specimens, and
reported others at Hungry Bay, September 99 of the same year. Three of Reid's
skins are in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History) in London
where I examined them in June, 1058. The published records mentioned were
included in the first draft of the Fifth Edition of the A.O.U. Check-list (1057),
but through an oversight Bermuda was omitted in the final manuscript.
In addition to the Bermuda skins, there is another in the British Museum col-
lections from Cocos Island, off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, the first to be
reported from that distant point. A note attached to the specimen reads in part
"Collected by Percy Howe at Wafer Bay, Cocos Island on 15th November, 1039.
The bird * * s was exhausted and taking cover just behind the camp in cleared
ground. It is the only one seen of its kind during a year's residence on the Island."
Tree Swallow, lridoprocne bicolor. There is a skin of an immature female, taken
on Swan Island (Caribbean Sea), November 14, 1937, in the British Museum
(Natural History) that constitutes the only report for this island group. The
record was made by Jean Delacour while on a cruise with Lord Moyne on the
yacht Rosaura, Tree Swallows being noted first (Delacour, 1038, p. 544) among
other migrants on October 90, while the skin was obtained on a later visit during
the cruise. There are also $ males of this species in the same museum taken by
C. H. Lankester February 4, 1018, at Colonia E1 Salvador, Province of Herealia,
on the Caribbean slope of northeastern Costa Rica. To these I add the occurrence
of this swallow near Changuinola, Province of Bocas del Toro, PanamA, where I
saw more than 100 on January 17, 1958, and where on March 4 I shot a male from
a group of several flying with Barn and Rough-winged Swallows. The locality last-
mentioned is the farthest south at which the species has been recorded to date.
Blackpoll Warbler, Dendroica striata. In view of the lack of Central American
records of this species, except for one from Oaxaca, it is of interest to report an
old specimen in the British Museum, labelled "Panama. J. McLeannan," received
with the Tweeddale Collection. To students of the birds of Panama the name
"J. McLeannan" is well known as that of a station-master on the Panama Railroad
who was an ardent collector of birds and other natural history material for a period
of more than ten years, beginning in the late 1850's. McLeannan sent many skins
to George N. Lawrence in New York and to Osbert Salvin in London. After having
handled hundreds of McLeannan's specimens I am certain that the Tweeddale
skin is properly labelled as to source, since it exhibits the peculiarities, particularly
in the method of sewing shut the bill, characteristic of McLeannan's work in his
later years. The bird is an adult male in full spring plumage, and constitutes the
only specimen record to date for PanamA.
McLeannan's ornithological activities were centered along the line of the Panampi
Railroad, mainly on the Atlantic side near the station of Lion Hill, now sub-
merged in Gatun Lake. The record of the Blackpoll Warbler therefore is to be
attributed to what is now the Canal Zone. The species is only a straggler in Central
America as it moves through the West Indies in its migrations. The only previous
reports for Panam are two sight observations for Barro Colorado Island in
Gatun Lake, mentioned by Eisenmann (1952: 51, footnote).
LITERATUR CITED
DELACOUR, j. 1938. Journal de Croisire (Yacht Rosaura, octobre 1937--janvier
1938). Ois. et Rev. Fran. Orn., vol. 8 (n.s.), no. 4, 1938, pp. 541-557, 4 pls.
ESESMASN, E. 1952. Annotated List of Birds of Barro Colorado Island, Panama
Canal Zone. Smith. Misc. Coil., 117, no. 5, pp. 1-62.
JosEs, J.M. 1859. The Naturalist in Bermuda; a sketch of the Geology, Zoology,
and Botany, of that remarkable group of Islands; Together with Meteorological
Observations. London, 1859, pp. i-xii, 1-200, map.
RZiD, S.G. 1884. The Birds of Bermuda. U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 25, 1884, pp. 165-
284. (Published also in book form as The Birds of the Bermudas, Bermuda,
1883, pp. 1-43, with appendix of 2 pages.)
AtaXANDER WETMOP, Z, C/O Smithsonian Institution, Washington 25, D.G.