— CORRESPONDENCE.

2A.O Correspondeucc. ^{' [April} reportedasactuallyspending the winter with us.

The

present season,it

should perhapsbe added, hasbeenexceptionallysevere.

—

Bradford ToR-

REY, Melrose Highlands, Mass.

NotesontheOccurrenceof

Uncommon

SpeciesatBeaver,Pa.

—

Clan- gula hyemalis.

Long-tailed Duck. — On

April _{15, 1890. a}party ofthree, allfemales,appearedatthe

mouth

ofthe BigBeaverCreek, ofwhich two weresecured byoneof thelocalgunners and givento

me

forinspection.

The

factiscertainlysomewiiatworthyofremarkconsidering the lateness ofthedateand themildnessofthe previous winter.

Phalaropuslobatus.

Northern Phalarope. — ^On

^{the26thofSeptem-}

ber, 1890, whilepursuinga

wounded

duck,a bird ofthisspecies flewpast

me

and alighted not a dozen pacesaway,

showing

no

more

fear or sus- picionthan woulda Least Sandpiper.

My

shotgun missed firetwice be- fore I at last secured it, in a condition unfortunately quite unfit for ]M-eservation.

The

only note it uttered wasthe chirp, which,

more

or lessmodified, characterizes nearly all the Shore-birds.

Tringa bairdii. Baird's Sandpiper.

—

^{Shota single} individual of this species September 16, 1889, whilein

company

withacouple of Semipal- matedPlovers.

Geothlypis Philadelphia.

Mourning Warbler. — Two

specimens have been taken thus far, one on

May

11, 18S9, the other on

May

21, 1890, which dates,thoughin difterentyears,probably represent theextremesof migration at thisplace.—

W.

E.

Clyde Todd,

Beaver,

Beaver

County, Pa.

Cistothorus marianae,

Buteo

lineatus alleni,

and Syrnium nebulosum

alleniinSouth Carolina.

— A

very interesting collectionof birds

made

by Mr.

James

^E. Benedict, of the National

Museum,

on the coast of South Carolina (near Charleston), inJanuary,1S81, contains several specimens ofthe first-named of the above mentioned species and one eacli of the othertwo

—

^allperfectly typical.

The

Cisiotlioriis is so exceedingly dif- ferent from C. paliistris, in both

plumage

and proportions,judgingfroiTi

thesespecimensalone,thatIcould notdoubttheir specific distinctness.

—

Robert

Ridgvvay, Washington, D. C.

CORRESPONDENCE.

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Camera

Notes^forOrnithologists.

To THE Editors

of

The Auk

^:

—

Dear

^Sirs: At the last Congress of the

American

Ornithologists'

Union

therewereexhibited

many

photographsofall sorts of ornitholog-