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Cryptoglaux tengmalmi richardsoni. Richardson's Owl. — One was 

 obtained from Milford, Maine, where it was shot on December 22, 1906. 



Surnia ulula caparoch. American Hawk Owl. — One was taken at 

 Van Buren, Aroostook Co., Maine, on April 16, 1906. 



Piranga rubra. Summer Tanager. — A male, said to have been shot 

 at Seaconnet, R. I., on April 27, 1901, was purchased of Messrs. Angell 

 and Cash. There seems to be no reason to discredit the record. — Glover 

 M. Allen, Cambridge, Mass. 



Notes from West Virginia. — Sphyrapicus varius. — On July 3 and 4, 

 1899, I found a number of Yellow-bejlied Sapsuckers in "The Pines," 

 a black spruce region near Pickens, in the western part of Randolph 

 County, West Virginia. The next day, July 5, great numbers of these 

 birds were found among the dead and dying sugar maples on the top of 

 Turkey Bone Mountain, not far from "The Pines." While in the Yew 

 Mountains, in Nicholas County, I took a young male of this species on 

 August 17, 1904. 



Empidonax minimus. — In many of the higher portions of West Virginia 

 there are extensive glades. These mountain swanips, with their tall cinna- 

 mon ferns, cranberries, and other characteristic plants, are found at alti- 

 tudes varying from 3000 to 4000 feet. There are many such glady regions 

 in Webster County. While collecting a few specimens in one of these 

 Webster County glades, on the 2d day of July, 1907, I took a fine adult 

 male Least Flycatcher. It was in the very heart of a great thicket of glade 

 shrubbery, and had been heard there for several days before it was taken. 

 Judging from the actions of the bird, and the greatly enlarged testes, it 

 may have been nesting there. Others of this species were heard near the 

 same place in the early days of July. 



Otocoris alpestris praticola. — Among my notes I find the following 

 account of the breeding of this species in Pittsburgh, Pa. " Schenley Park, 

 Apr. 4, 1898. On above date an adult Otocoris alpestris 'praticola was 

 observed feeding its young out near the golf links. The young bird was 

 captured and identified, and then released. Afterwards the parent bird 

 brought food again. Nasal tufts incipient in young bird. Hind claw 

 already very long. Down still on head on either side where tufts of adults 

 are. Queer horned appearance. Young hopped, — did not walk. Plum- 

 age in spotted phase. Young bird almost able to fly. Adults wary. Did 

 not pay any attention to squeaking sound made on back of hand. Note 

 of young like the peculiar piping note of adult Only one young bird 

 observed." 



This southern breeding record of the Prairie Horned Lark led me to 

 study the bird rather closely in succeeding years in West Virginia. I have 

 observed this species in many sections of the State. In Kanawha County, 

 at Charleston, a bird of this species was seen as late as June 19, 1902. In 

 Wood County it seems to be resident throughout the year. At Poca 

 Bottoms, in Putnam County, a specimen was taken on October 15, 1902, 



