aSz General Notes. f October 



to no doubt, for they are accompanied by the skin of the female parent, 

 which was shot on the nest. Mr. Maynard had the specimens directly 

 from the collector, a young man by the name of Lapham. 



If no mistake has been made in the authentication of the alleged eggs of 

 P. aiitniniialis {= fiilc/iicllus) ft-om Florida (see B. B. &; R., Water Birds, 

 Vol. I, p. 96), both species of Glossy Ibis 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' for January, 1SS6, the writer noted the occurrence of a Northern 

 Phalarope on the eastern branch of the Potomac River, near Washington, 

 in October, 18S5. The statements made at that time i-egarding the capture 

 and identity of the bird were given on the authority of the collector, Mr. 

 Webster, who then had the specimen. A short time ago the bird in question 

 came into the possession of the National Museum (catalogue number 

 109,213) and has been identified as a young specimen of the Red Phalarope 

 {Crymopl/ilus fuli car ills'). In making this correction I at the same time 

 add this rare species to our avian fauna. — Hugh M. Smith, Waski/igion, 

 D. C. 



^gialitis meloda circumcincta on the Atlantic Coast. — During a recent 

 hurried visit to the Museum of the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, N. J., 

 I noticed, in looking over the beautifully mounted Scott collection of birds, 

 two specimens, male and female, in adult spring plumage, of the Belted 

 Piping Plover, taken by Mr. W. E. D. Scott at Long Beach, Barnegat Bay, 

 N. J., in April, 1S77. On referring to the series of skins two other speci- 

 mens were found, taken at the same time and place as the above, in which 

 the pectoral band was complete but narrow. The specimens first men- 

 tioned above have the pectoral band broad and continuous — typical rep- 

 resentatives of var. circumcincta. 



In the same collection I found also two skins of typical circumcincta 

 taken by Mr. Nathan Clifford Bi-own, on the Scarborough marshes, near 

 Portland, Maine, respectively May 17, 1878, and May 2, 1S80. Thus in a 

 series of thirteen specimens of the Piping Plover taken on the Atlantic 

 Coast, contained in the Museum of Princeton College, four were typical 

 of var. circumcincta. These specimens appear to have been unrecorded 

 till briefly mentioned by me in the 'Additions and Corrections' to my 'Re- 

 vised List of the Birds of Massachusetts,' recently published in the 'Bulletin 

 of the American Museum of Natural History,' 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 mainly restricted to the Missouri River region. 

 Mr. Cory (A Naturalist in the Magdalen Islands, 1878, p. 61), however, 

 has recorded it as "abundant" in the Magdalen Islands, and judged it 



