tory — Leverett M. LooMis. Chester. S. C. William Brew-

General Notes.

139

differentSparrows. 1 have taken males inJanuarywith thecrownbright orange.

Mj

firstspecimen, secured

November

27, was a

joung

birdof the 3'ear, and not

knowing what

it was, I accordingly sent it to Mr.

William Brewster for identification.

He

identified it as the Orange- crownedWarbler,young. Ihad thereforeno

more

trouble inidentifying othersin the

same

stage. I secured ^{in all} about fifteen specimens dur- ingthewinter.of 1884. I

may

here add thatDendroica dominica is resi- dentin South Carolina, asI havetakenspecimensinevery

month

in the year.

— Arthur

T.

Wayne.

Charleston, S. C.

Dendroica dominicaalbilora obtainedinChester County. South Caro- lina.

— May

7, 18S5, I shot an example of the Yellow-throated Warbler which appeared ataglance quite different from the ordinary' specimens taken in this locality. After reading up the descriptions in the books and

making

careful comparison with a couple of skins secured by Dr.

J.

M. Wheaton

at

Columbus,

Oliio, I

became

satisfied that I had found the western subspecies. This has been confirmed by Mr. _J. A. Allen,

who

says, asthe resultofarecent examination,

"The

specimen of

Den-

droicais, sofar asIcan ^see.D. dominica albilora. it presenting all the characters ofthatform."

The

occurrence of so nian^v instances in South Carolina is suggestive oflinesof migrationof-'western' birdshitherto unnoted; aregurgitating one from the north, in fall, via the Mississippi Valley and tl^e region lying to the southward of the Southern Alleghanies, bending

upward

into South Carolina; and a diverging one from the south, in spring, along the Gulf Seaboard.

The

isolated autumnal record of the Lark Finch in Florida seems toafford additionaland corroborative evidence.

While the original planting ofthe parent stock ofthe

Burrowing

Owl.

now

^existingin thewestern part of that State, is perhaps equallv indica- tory

— ^Leverett M.

LooMis. Chester. S. C.

AdditionstotheAvi-faunaofTexas.

—

.Mr.

George

H. Ragsdale writes

me

that he has taken in

Cook

Co., Texas, Tiirdiis ustulatus andiiboni.

Geothlypis trichasoccidentalism SciurusncEvius notabilis, Geotklypismac- gillivrayi. Chondestes gratnmactisstrigatus, Spizella monticola ochracea, SpizellasocialisarizoncE.and

Porzana

Jamaicensis. Mr.N.C.

Brown

has previously recorded Tardus andiiboni* and Spizella arizona;^ from Kendall, Co.; theothers appearto be

new

to the State.

—

William Brew-

ster. Cambridge. Mass.

Birds

New

to the District of Columbia.

—

In addition to the Prairie Chicken {Cttpidonia cupido). the capture of which was cited by Mr.

Robert

Ridgway

in -ForestandStream,' of April9.and theWhite-throated Warbler{Helniinfhophilaleticobronckialis).noted by Mr. William Palmer

*Bull.N. O. C.Vol.VII,p. 38.

t^Ibid., Vol.VII,p.127.

IztO Correspondence. [January

in 'The Auk'for Julj, there were three accessions to the District fauna during the year 18S5, viz.^:

—

^{(i) English Teal (Anas crecca), shot}

^on

the

Potomac

River near Washington, in April, and presented to the National

Museum

(No. 106,061). (2) Stilt Sandpiper

(Micropalama

/limantopus), taken onthe Pawtuxent River, Maryland,September8, by Mr. H.

W. Henshaw, who

has kindly

communicated

these data to me.

This capture ^vv'as

made

beyond the regularDistrict boundary, but was, however, includedin

what

hasbeentacitlyregardedas^itsfaunaland floral limits. (3)Northern Phalarope (Pkalaropuslobatus), killedontheeastern branch of the Potomac, October 17, by Mr. F. S. Webster, in

whose

possession the bird

now

is.

A

perusal of the catalogues of the bird department of the National

Museum

shows

some

interesting entries.

Through

the courtesy of Mr.

Ridgway, thecurator, I have been enabled toexamine the twenty large volumesin which thecollection isinvoiced,with

some

interestingresults, onlyoneofwhich need be mentioned at this time.

The

first volume,

which

carries usbackintothe fortiesand represents theprivate collection ofProfessorBaird andhisbrother, showsthe followingentries^:

—

'•Tringa alpina,

$ [=

? ad.], Oct. 22, 1842. Washington, D. C."

(No. 848.)

•'Pelidna alphia.

$

^{, Oct.20.} 1842, Washington, D.C." (No. 105,3.)

The

Dunlin isnotgiveninanyof the listsof the birdsof the District;

and althoughthe above captures were

made

nearly half a century ago, they are 'new' to the fauna.

—

Hugh M.

Smith, National

Museum,

Washington, D. C.

CORRESPONDENCE.

^Correspondents are requested totarite briedy and tothe point.

No

attention will bepaidtoanotiymous coinmunicationsP\

Turner'sList of the Birdsof Labrador.

To THE Editors

of

The Auk

^:

—

Sirs: Inreply to yourcriticism in 'The Auk' for October, _{1885 (pp.}

368, 369)

upon my

List of the Birds of Labrador,etc. (Proc.U. S.Nat.

Mus.,VIII, 1885, pp. 233-254),^I would slate thatyou haveevidentlymis-

•construed the List. Itwasintendedonly topresentunderthatheadinga list

somewhat

approachingthecharacter ofacatalogue of thebirds of the regionembracedwithinthatheading.

Accesswas hadtoallthe materialbearing

upon

the subject, and itwas compiled asconciselyaspossible.

With

that material was incorporated thebriefestpossible references tothe species of birds obtainedby me. I

deemed

it necessaryto give onlya scanty sketch ofUngava. a hitherto

unknown

district.