i3S7-] General Notes. 'Wl 



The Lapland Longspur about Washington, D. C. — My expectation of 

 finding the Calcarius lapponicus in this vicinity was verified last winter. 

 Dec. ii, while Dr. Fisher and I were riding along the road to Falls 

 Church, and distant from Washington perhaps four miles, we saw a 

 flock of fifteen or twenty Horned Larks by the road side. Scattered 

 through the flock were half a dozen or more Longspurs, one of which 

 was secured. Comparatively little collecting has ever been done about 

 Washington in winter, and to this fact more than to its excessive rarity 

 is due, I am persuaded, the absence of the species from the local lists. 

 Although probably not a regular migrant, the species occurs here in 

 small numbers, I am inclined to believe, during every hard winter. How- 

 ever, it is to be remarked that the records of this bird from so far south 

 are very few. In Bull. N. O. C, Vol. VII, Jan. 1SS2, p. 54, Mr. Allen re- 

 cords the capture of a single individual in Chester, South Carolina, this 

 being, so far as I know, the most southern record of its occurrence along 

 the Atlantic coast. — H. W. Henshaw, Washington, D. C. 



Description of Two New Races of Pyrrhuloxia sinuata Bonap. — 



1. Pyrrhuloxia sinuata beckhami. Arizona Pyrrhuloxia. 



Subsp. Char. Differing from true P. sinuata* in decidedly browner 

 and somewhat lighter tone of the gray, and greater extent of dark red on 

 the tail; adult male with much less (often not any) blackish suffusion in 

 the lighter carmine-red of the capistrum. and red of the crest much lighter ; 

 female with much less of a grayish tinge across chest and along sides ; 

 wing (8) 3-60-3.90, tail 4.40-4.60, depth of bill .50-. 52. Hab. Southern 

 Arizona and New Mexico and contiguous portion of Northern Mexico. 

 Type, No. 6370, U. S. Nat. Mus., $ ad., El Paso, Texas; Lieut. J. G. Parke, 

 U. S. A. (Seventeen specimens examined.) 



2. Pyrrhuloxia sinuata peninsulae. St. Lucas Pyrrhuloxia. 



Subsi j . Char. Similar to P. S. beckhami in color, but decidedly smaller, 

 with larger bill ; wing ( J) 3.30-3.60, tail 3.S0-4.15, depth of bill .52-. 55. 

 Hab. Lower California. Type, No. 87547, U. S. Nat. Mus., San Jose, 

 Lower California, Apr. 13, 18S2 ; L. Belding. (Eleven specimens exam- 

 ined.) 



The first of the above-described new races is named in honor of Mr. C. 

 W. Beckham, who furnished the material enabling me to make a satisfac- 

 tory comparison of specimens. — Robert Ridgway, Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. 



Helinaia swainsonii near Chester C. H., S. C. — About a mile distant 

 from the eastern portion of the town of Chester a male Swainson's 

 Warbler was shot by me, Aug. 30, 1S87, on the bank of a small branch 



1 About 30 specimens examined. 



