The Red Phalarope in the District of Columbia

aSz

^General Notes. fOctober

to nodoubt, forthey are accompanied by ^{the skin}of the female parent, which

was

shot

on

the nest. Mr.

Maynard

had the specimens directly from thecollector, a

young man

by the

name

of

Lapham.

Ifno mistake hasbeen

made

inthe authentication ofthealleged eggsof P. aiitniniialis

{=

fiilc/iicllus) ft-om Florida (see B.B. &; R.,

Water

Birds, Vol. I, p.96),both species of GlossyIbis breed together in that State.

The

P. giiarauna has not been previously found breeding east of the Mississippi, as far as I can ascertain.

—

William Brewster,

Cambridge, Mass.

The Red

^{Phalarope in the District of Columbia.}

— A

Correction.

—

In 'The Auk'forJanuary, 1SS6, the writer noted theoccurrence ofaNorthern Phalarope onthe easternbranch of the

Potomac

River, nearWashington, inOctober, 18S5.

The

statements

made

atthattime i-egarding the capture and identityof the bird were given onthe authority of the collector, Mr.

Webster,

who

thenhadthespecimen.

A

shorttimeagothebirdinquestion

came

into the possession of the National

Museum

(catalogue

number

109,213)and hasbeenidentified asa

young

specimenof the

Red

Phalarope {Crymopl/ilus fulicarills'). In

making

this correctionIatthe

same

time addthis rarespecies to our avian fauna.

—

Hugh M.

Smith, Waski/igion,

D.

C.

^gialitis

meloda

circumcincta ontheAtlanticCoast.

— During

arecent hurriedvisittothe

Museum

of the College of

New

Jersey, atPrinceton,N._J.,

Inoticed, inlookingover thebeautifully

mounted

Scottcollectionofbirds, two specimens, male and female,inadult springplumage, of the Belted PipingPlover, takenby Mr.

W.

E. D.Scottat

Long

Beach,Barnegat Bay, N._J., in April, 1S77.

On

^referringtothe seriesof skinstwo otherspeci-

mens

werefound, taken ^atthe

same

timeandplaceasthe above, inwhich the pectoral

band was

^complete but narrow.

The

specimens first

men-

tioned above havethe pectoral

band

broad and continuous

—

^{typical rep-}

resentatives ofvar. circumcincta.

In the

same

collection I found also two skins of typical circumcincta taken

by

Mr.

Nathan

CliffordBi-own,

on

theScarborough marshes,near Portland,Maine,respectively

May

17, 1878,and

May

2, 1S80.

Thus

ina series of thirteen specimens of the Piping Plover taken on the Atlantic Coast, contained in the

Museum

ofPrinceton College, fourwere typical of var. circumcincta. These specimens appearto have been unrecorded

tillbrieflymentioned by

me

inthe 'Additionsand Corrections'to

my

'Re- vised List oftheBirds of Massachusetts,' recently publishedinthe 'Bulletin of the

American Museum

of NaturalHistory,' Vol. I,No. 7.

Mr.

Ridgway

and Dr.Brewer (Water Birds of

North

America,Vol. I, 1S84, pp. 161, 163) mention this variety as occasionally occurring along the Atlantic Coast,though mainlyrestricted totheMissouriRiverregion.

Mr.

Cory (A

^{Naturalist in the}

Magdalen

Islands, 1878,p.61),however, has recorded it as "abundant" in the

Magdalen

Islands,and judged it