Abstract
(Guiraca c. caerulea), about three miles northeast of the village of Bethany, Brooke County, West Virginia, a short distance from the Pennsylvania state line. The bird flew across a narrow valley from a thicket of locust trees in response to our squeaking; perched for an instant only a short distance from us; flew to a higher tree close by, giving us ample opportunity to note its large size, its heavy beak, its dull blue coloration, and the bright chestnut of its wing-coverts; and disappeared. We searched for hours that afternoon and on the following two days, but did not see the bird again. I have recorded the Blue Grosbeak but once previously in West Virginia, a female observed in our garden at Bethany, on July 6, 1929 (Birds of the West Virginia Panhandle, Cardinal, Vol. III, No. 5, January, 1933, 121). GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
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