392 General Notes. T^^,'' 



Chairtonetta albeola. A small flock remained at Moon Island, Boston 

 Bay, during tlie ^vinter. 



Gallinago delicata. A pair spent the past severe winter along a small 

 brook in the Arnold Arboretuin, Jamaica Plain, Mass. 



.^gialitis vocifera. Two were observed in the Middlesex Fells, Mass., 

 on April 6, 1904. 



Nyctea nyctea. One was seen March 5, 1904, at Squantum, Mass. 



Acanthis linaria. A flock of ten Redpolls and one Goldflnch was 

 observed in the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mass., February 13, 

 1904. On March 2, 1904, a flock containing one Redpoll and thirteen 

 Pine Finches was recorded in Brookline, Mass. 



Mimus polyglottos. One passed the winter in Jamaica Plain, Mass. 

 We last recorded it on April 6, 1904. 



Hylocichla guttata pallasii. Observed on January i, 1904, in Brook- 

 line, Mass., and January S, 1904, at Chestnut Hill, Mass. (Auk, Vol. XXI, 

 p. 283). — Francis G. and Maurice C. Blake, Brookline, Mass. 



Scott Oriole, Gray Vireo, and Phoebe in Northeastern New Mexico.— 

 Icterus farisorum was found during the breeding season last summer on 

 both sides of the thirty-fifth parallel, a little west of the one hundred and 

 fourth meridian, which is an extension of its range from southern New 

 Mexico. On May 26 one was seen in some box elders on the Pecos River 

 a few miles from Santa Rosa, south of the thirty-fifth parallel, and on 

 May 28 another was noted in a caiion in the same locality. Near Montoya, 

 at the base of the northernmost point of the Staked Plains, north of the 

 thirty-fifth parallel, in the middle of June a pair of the birds were going 

 about among the junipers, and the song of the male was heard continually. 



Vireo vicinior was also found in the junipers at Montoya, which is an 

 extension of range from Western Texas. Only one specimen was taken 

 but vireos, apparently of the same species, were abundant in the junipers, 

 singing loudly throughout the day. A vireo nest with three newly 

 hatched young was found on June 15. The nest was made principally 

 of shreds of bark, apparently the soft juniper bark, and, unlike ordinary 

 vireo nests, was unadorned. 



Sayornis fhivbe is hardly a bird that one would look for in the arid plains 

 region of New Mexico, but in the canons breaking down from the plains 

 to the Pecos River exist conditions that are far from those of arid plains. 

 Near Santa Rosa, from our juniper and cactus-covered camp ground, we 

 climbed down into one of these box caiions that boasted numerous water 

 pools, fresh green cottonwoods, willows, woodbine, grapevines, and one 

 patch of cat-tails, in which a warbler that we took for a female Yellow- 

 throat hid away at our approach. Here, in a niche of rock over a water 

 pool we found a pair of phcebes feeding young in the nest on May 29, 

 and the brooding bird was so tame that she let us photograph her at a 

 distance of ten feet, so that her light chin shows to advantage. Her mate 



