An addition to the List of North American Birds

(1)

idNotes.

319

Wliileonllicsubjectofrare visitorstcjtheGulfofSt.Lawrence I will addthaton the 13th and I4tli ofAu£,aist, 18S3,IsawaMan-of-warBird, {Tuc/iypetes ttqnilus)outside of the Bayhere.

A

fewdayslater itwas again seen by Capt. Le Blanc of the'Manicoriagan LightShip.'thirty miles west ofGodbout.

—

Nai».A.Come.mi, Godbout,J^hcIhc.

Oidemiaperspicillata inFlorida.

— A

maleofthisspecies wastakenJan uary^5,nearPuntaRassa,atthesouthernentrancetoCharlotteHarbor.

— Frank

M. Ch.m-man, NcxuYork-,N. Y.

An

Additiontothe ListofNorthAmericanBirds.

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^I^haveⁱⁿ

^my

^collec-

tiontwospecimens, takeninTexas,o(Hallusiot/otros/)iscdii/nnisRidg., heretoforeonly

known

intheWestIndies.

They

areexactlylikethetype kindly sent

me

by Mr.Ridgway, andareundoubtedly referable to this form.

A

femalewastakenby Mr.Fred.Webster and myselfatGalveston, Feb.28, 1S77,andamale was takenby

my

collector,Jno. M. I'riour, at Corpus Christi,

May

19, 1S87.

—

George

B.

Sennett, Am.

Mas. Nat.

Hist.,Nerv YorkCity.

The

YellowRailinConnecticut.

—

1

am

indebtedtoMr.E. II.Austinof Gaylordsviiie,Conn.,for aspecimenof the Yellow Rail {Pi>rz(iii(iiiovc- boi-ucensis)foundatthat place on

March

24. Mr.Austin writesin refer- encetoit: "Itwaspickedup in the

morning

atthesideof theroad near theriverbyaboy

who

founditinan exhaustedcondition,and was taken into thehousewhereitrevivedenoughtorun abouttheroom,butfinally diedintheevening.

The

mostsingular pointin

my

mindisthattheSat- unlayitwas foundthethermometerstoodat10 ,andIhetlaybeforeat 7°.

ItwastakenintothePostOffice as a rareor

unknown

liird."

Itprovedtobeamale. Isent the contents of the gizzaidtotheDepart-

ment

of Agriculture,and Dr. A. K. Fisher saysina letter of the3otli inst.:

"The

seedsfoundinthe gizzard of the Rail are as follows: one grape seed,onegrass seed {Paspuluiii),tvv(isedges{Carcx). Probai)ly the grapeseedwastakeninwith gravel."

Mr. Austin has recorded his discoveryin-Forest;uk1Stream.'

—

C.K.

AvERiLL,Jr.,Bridgeport.,Conn.

Notes on Melanerpestorquatus.

—

^Duringthe spiings of18S5, 18S6,and 1887, I

made

constant observations upon the migration of birds at FortWingate,

New

Mexico,butduringthose three years never somucli asobservedanywhereinthat regionaspecimen of Lewis's

Woodpecker

{M. torquatus); nor,as lorthat matter,at any other time during the year. Thisspring (iSS8),however,

my

sonnotedabird ofthis species ina large pine tree close to the garrison buildings, and

when

I was out nextday

(May

8),four other specimens were in sight at one time, withintwomiles of the station. These,as usual,were extremelywary, and^Ionly succeededinobtainingonefineadultfemale.

Upon

carefullyplucking thisbird.I foundthe pterylosistobeforthe