Vol. XIXT General Notes. 7Q 



1902 J I y 



American Avocet and American Three-toed Woodpecker at Toronto. 

 — An Avocet {Recurvirostra americiuia) was shot on the eastern sand- 

 bar, Toronto, by Mr. C. K. Rogers, September 19, 1901. The bird was 

 noticed feeding among a flock of plovers. It proved to be a male, and is 

 the second Toronto record, the first being of a bird taken about fifteen 

 jears ago. 



The American Tliree-toed Woodpecker {Picoides americanns) was shot 

 on Wells Hill, Toronto, November 16, 1901. It was seen in the companj- 

 of another, probably its mate. The bird is a male, and is now in my col- 

 lection. This is the first recorded specimen from Toronto, and a most 

 unexpected occurrence so far away from the Muskoka District, into which 

 it comes occasionally in the winter from further north, but, unlike 

 Picoides arcficus, which has been recorded a number of times from the 

 vicinity of Toronto, it does not seem ever to leave the shelter of the 

 forest, and once suited will stay all winter within a very limited area, in 

 isolated pairs. — J- H. Fleming, Toronto, Can. 



Capture of the Mexican Jacana in Florida. — Captain B. F. Hall, of the 

 steamboat ' Naoma No. 3,' showed me the skin of a Jaca/ia spinosa 

 (Linn.), killed in October, 1S99, on Pelican Bay, Lake Okechobee, Flor- 

 ida. — Edgar A. Mearxs, Fort Adams, Ne-.vport, R. I. 



Note on the Name Colinus. — Dr. Stejneger has recently called my 

 attention to the use of the name Colinus by Goldfuss, whose refer- 

 ence has several years' priority over that of Lesson. The proper citation 

 for this genus would appear to be : Goldfuss, Handbuch der Zoologie, II, 

 1820, 220; the type is 'P<';'^/.v ;«c.v/rrt«ff, Caille de la Louisiana, PI. Enl. 

 149,' which is synonymized with Tetrao virginianus Linn. — Chas. W. 

 Richmond, Washington, D. C. 



Aquila chrysaetos. — The date of this combination is given in the A. 

 O. U. ' Cheek-List' as Dumont, 1S16, but I have met with several earlier 

 references, the first being Aquila chrysaetos Spriingli, in Andrese's 

 ' Briefe aus der Schweiz,' 1776, 196. — Chas. W. Richmond, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Occurrence of the Barn Owl in Canada. — In the Bryant Collection in 

 the Museum of Comparative Zoology there is an American Barn Owl 

 {Strix pratincola) taken by Mr. Louis Cabot at Long Point, Ontario, in 

 early November, 1899. The specimen (No. 14S2) was secured for the 

 collection by Mr. H. B. Bigelow. — Reginald Heber Ho\ve, Jr., Long- 

 ii'ood, Mass. 



Strix lapponica. — The Lapp Owl was first described by Thunberg, K. 

 Vet. Akad. nva Handl., XIX, 179S, 184, instead of by Retzius. — Chas. 

 W. Richmond, Washington, D. C. 



