A 3 2 DuTCiiER, Bird Notes fro7n Long Island, N. T. [October 



730, $a(l., i::th August, 1SS4; No. 2141, ?ad., 14th April, 18S5). Mr. 

 Brown has not met with this species about Tucson nor at other points vis- 

 ited by him. 



105. lache latirostris. Broad-billed Hummingbird. — During the 

 spring, siunmer, and early fall of 1SS4 this was a rather common species 

 in the Catalina Mountains, from an altitude of 3500 to 5000 feet, but in 

 the corresponding season of 1SS5 the birds were apparently rare. The 

 birds arrive at this point early in April, the 5th of that month being my 

 earliest record, when I took two adult males. They remain tliroughout 

 the spring and summer, leaving from the middle to the last of September. 

 I took an adult female on June 26, 1S84, that contained an unlaid egg with 

 shell nearlv formed, so that there can be little doubt that the birds breed 

 at this point. Besides, I have the young birds in first plumage from 

 [uly 1st until late in August. 



[Young birds of the year, of both .sexes, have the upper plumage edged 

 with fulvous, particularly on the head and lower back. The young male.s 

 liave an oblong blue patch on the throat, each feather of which is edged 

 with dark gray, like the rest of the lower plumage, with sometimes a few 

 metallic green feathers on the sides of the breast. In one specimen (No. 

 703, August 9, 18S4) tlie breast is about lialf-covcred with metallic feathers. 

 -J. A. A.] 



BIRD NOTES FROM LONG ISLAND, N. Y. 



BY WILLIAM DUTCIIEU. 



I. Megalestris skua. Skua. — Mr. M. F. King, one of the 

 crew of the Life vSaving Station at Aniagansett, Suflblk Co., sent 

 to me, in the flesh, a specimen of this species. He informed me 

 that he found the bird March 17, 1SS6, in a hirge piece of ice 

 which had formed on the meadow liack of tiie beach. He also 

 stated that January 9, the tides were exceedingly high, by reason 

 of a very severe northeast storm and gale of wind. He thonght 

 the bird probably died near the shore and was driven by the 

 very violent surf and w ind to where it was found. The high tide 

 was followed immediately by very cold weather, which encased 

 this bird in its icy toml:), thus preserving it until found, an<l per- 

 mitting a new record for Long Island and the third ami most 

 southern one for North America.* Mr. King stated further that 



* The previous records may be found in ISull. Nutt. Orn. Club, III, 1878, p. 18& ; 

 Auk, I, 1884, p. 395. 



