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come into my possession, and as the species is of comparative rarity on 

 the Pacific coast, its occurrence at San Diego seems worthy of record. 

 The three birds are in juvenal plumage, with a few feathers of the first 

 winter dress beginning to appear, and were obtained, a male and a female 

 October 7, and a female October 9, 1903. — Jonathan Dwight, Jr., M-D.^ 

 New York City. 



A Sanderling with Hind Toes. — On September 11, 1903,1 obtained 

 from a gimner at Ipswich, Mass., a Sanderling (Cali'dri's arena ria) which 

 had rudimentary hind toes. The bird was one of eleven shot in my pres- 

 ence out of a passing flock. None of the other birds secured had this 

 peculiarity. The hind toes are only about .05 of an inch in length and 

 have no claws but they were very noticeable in the fiesh bird and are 

 equally so in the skin, which is now in the collection of Dr. Charles W. 

 Townsend of Boston. I suppose this to be a case of reversion, as the 

 ancestors of the Sanderling were doubtless four-toed sandpipers. — 

 Francis H. Allen, Boston, Mass. 



Black-bellied Plover and Hudsonian Godwit on Long Island, N. Y. — 



On July I, 1903, while walking along the beach at Q^iogue, Long Island, 

 I shot a young Black-bellied Plover (Charadrius squatarola). It was 

 quite tame but in good condition. None have been taken here before 

 July 20, and they do not occur regularly until Inter. 



On August 31, a flight of Hudsonian Godwits {Limosa hfemastica) 

 occurred. Many gunners shot a dozen or more. Such a flight of these 

 rare birds has not taken place within the memory of the oldest gunners, 

 and they will probably not come again after their warm reception. — T. W. 

 KoBBE, Nev: York City. 



The Ani in Florida. — Mr. Thomas Barbour has sent me an Ani {Croto- 

 phaga ani) which he shot in Brevard County, Fla., during the winter of 

 1901. The bird was taken in either February, March or April ; the exact 

 date was lost. — Reginald Heber Howe, Jr., Concord, Mass. 



The Pileated Woodpecker in the District of Columbia. — On the 21st 

 of November, 1903, while hunting in a piece of woods adjacent to Mt. 

 Pleasant, a local name for a suburb lying just north of Washington, Mr. 

 H. J. Saers of this city secured a fine male specimen of Ceofklaeus pileatus. 

 Subsequently it was learned through Mr. H. C. Oberholser that Mr. F. H. 

 Kent of the Biological Survey had seen an individual of this species, pre- 

 sumably the same bird, in approximately the same locality, on the 8th of 

 last August. 



The capture of this wild, forest-loving bird so close to Washington is a 

 matter of considerable interest to local ornithologists, as it is somewhat 

 doubtful that this species has actually occurred within the limits of the 

 District, during the last forty-five years. Drs. Coues and Prentiss, in 



