Another Saw-whet Owl (<I>Nyctala acudica</I>) in the District of Columbia

I889-] General Notes. ^'

loQ

Tringabairdiion

Long

Island Sound.

— A

female

Tringa

bairdii

was

shotat Stratford, Connecticut,

November

3, 1S88,by Mr._J. II. Averill ot Bridgeport,

who

kindly presentedittome. It

was

on a salt

meadow

in

company

with four

Tringa

inaculata.

Having

no specimens forcompari- son I sent the skin to Dr. C. H. Merriam, Dept. of Agriculture,

who

identified itas above.

—

^C.K. Averill,Jr., Bridgeport, Cotmecticut.

Note

on theFirst

Plumage

ofColinusridgwayi.

—

Mr. Herbert

Brown

ofTucson, Ai-izona,has kindly sent

me

for examinationa specimenof Colinus ridgtvayi, a

young

male, stillpartlyin the firstplumage. It

was

taken Oct. 10, 1S8S, near Tubal, seventy miles south ofTucson.

The

topof the head is blackish, with each feather narrowly bordered with ashybrown.

The

hind neck, sidesof the neck,and

jugulum

areyellow- ishwhite, with eachfeatherbarred atthetip with black.

The

^scapulars

arebrownish, eachfeather with a ratherbroadwhitish shaft stripe, and barredwith yellowish white

and

black,

and

the

wing

coverts have

much

the

same

pattern,but thebarringispale

cinnamon

and brown.

The

throat

is pure white,with

new

black feathers appearing irregularly along the sides of the chin and upper throat. Breast pale brown, with light shaft stripes and faintly barred with blackish, passing into brownish white with

more

distinctbars onthe upper

abdomen. The new

feathers alongthesidesof the breast andflanks are chestnut, tipped witha spot ofclearwhite,

which

isborderedbehind witha

more

orlessV-shapedbar ofdeepblack.

The

broadyellowishwhite superciliary stripesextendto the nostrils.

On

the whole ^{the first}

plumage

of C. ridgivayi

much

^re- sembles that of

C

virginianustexensis,but the

ground

color above is

darker, andthe bars

on

the

jugulum

arestrongerand better defined, and theground color

more

whitish.

—

^{J. A.}

^{Allen, Am.}

^{Mus. Nat.Hist.,}

^New

York

City.

Another

Saw-whet Owl

{Nyctalaacadica) intheDistrict of Columbia.

—

^Mr.J.D. Figginsshota male

Saw-whet Owl

at Capitol

View

Park,a short distancefromWashington, on

March

12,1889.

When

discovered it

was

feeding on a Junco, and

was

surrounded

by

an angry lot of small birds.

Threeotherspecimensofthis specieshavebeen takenhere,as follows:

A

female

was

taken at

Washington

byC. Drexler, Feb. 12, 1859, ^"'^ P""^"

sentedtothe National

Museum

(No. 12,044). ^{^^'-}Fishercalled

my

atten- tion to a description of this specimen in 'History of North

American

Birds,'Vol. Ill, p. 43.

The Museum number was

givenas120,044 but

was

a misprintfor 12,044.

A

female

Saw-whet Owl

wascaptured ⁱⁿ this city on

November

i, 1878, andpresentedtothe National

Museum

(No. 97,987) by Mr.

Henry

Marshall.

Another

wastaken early ⁱⁿ October, 1886,and recorded in'TheAuk,' Vol. IV, p. 161, by Mr. F. S.

Webster.— Charles W. Richmond,

Washington. D. C.

A

Fishing Screech Owl.

—

Isecureda Screech

Owl

Feb. 2, 1889,which