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sea level, from where I had an unobstructed A-iew for miles of country all 

 around me. My object was to observe the migration of hawks, and I 

 was armed with a Hensoldt Binocular eight power glass. The day was 

 clear, and at one time late in the forenoon, several thousand hawks, Broad- 

 wings mostly, were in view\ They came from a northeasterly direction 

 which would take them directly to the Shawangunk Mountain, Ellenville, 

 and Lake Minnewaska, N. Y., sixty miles northeast from my place, where 

 a similar flight was observed by Mr. Barbour and ]Mr. Kirk Monroe. A 

 constant stream of birds, very high up, could be seen for a long while, and 

 they were going in the direction of the Delaware Wat«r Gap. Over the 

 valley to the southwest of me, the birds seemed to collect into an immense 

 flock, while hundreds, if not thousands of birds were gjTating aromid and 

 around, describing smaller and larger circles in the air, in heights of from, 

 I should judge, 600 to 2,000 feet above the earth. Most birds were Broad- 

 wings. There were, however, other hawks such as Red-tails and Red- 

 shoulders among them, while the " Accipiter" genus was represented by 

 some Cooper's Hawks and more Sharp-shinned, which, however, were 

 mostly flying lower and took no part in the general evolution. Some days 

 I have observed about every species of hawks that we find in this part of 

 the country, from the same stand. By decopng them with either a live 

 or mechanically mo^'ing stuffed Great Homed Owl, I have taken some 

 very successful and interesting photographs, and have secured himdreds of 

 specimens with the gim. 



Where this annual migration of hawks begins and where it ends, I do 

 not know. If notes could be collected further north and south than 

 Ulster County, N. Y., and Sussex County, N. J., the lane of migration 

 might be well defined. The most extensive migrations occur just before 

 a storm. — Jitstus von Lengerke, Neiv York City. 



A New Name for the Texan Barred Owl. — By the change* in the names 

 of the genera of owls lately made by the A. O. U. Committee, by which 

 Strix takes the place of Syrnium, my name for the Texan Barred Owl 

 becomes preoccupied, there already being a Strix helvola of Lichtenstein 

 (Verz. Samml. Siiugeth. mid Vogeln Kaffernlande, p. 11, 1842). I there- 

 fore propose for the Texan Barred Owl, Strix varia albogilva nom. nov. 

 The subspecies w-as originally described as Syrnium nehulosum helveolum 

 Bangs, Proc. New Eng. Zool. Club, Vol. I, p. 31, March 31, 1899. The 

 type of course remains the same, — adult $ , No. 4551, Coll. of E. A. and 

 O. Bangs, Corpus Christi, Texas, Feb. 2, 1899. — Outram Bangs, Boston, 

 Mass. 



The Breeding Season of Strix pratincola in South Carolina. — The contri- 

 bution of Mr. Arthur T. Wayne in 'The Auk' for January, 1908, concerning 

 the breeding of the Bam Owl in South Carolina during the autimin, sug- 

 gests that the following notes regarding the nesting of the bird in that 

 State in April might be of interest. 



