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what wabbly. However, it was otherwise active, and beat its wings 

 strongly when I took it out of the basket where I had kept it all night. 

 There was a little weakness in the first part of its flight when I liberated 

 it from a second story window, but it had soon steadied itself, and flying 

 through the rain towards the Mississippi, was shortly out of sight. — H. 

 H. Kopman, New Orleans, La. 



A Correction. — In my note on 'The Turkey Buzzard in Maine' (Auk, 

 XXII, p. 78.) I stated that the present record made the tenth for the State. 

 I included two specimens which Mr. Boardman added to a revised list 

 which he sent me in 1873. Mr. Ora W. Knight has called my attention 

 to the fact that the title of Mr. Boardman's list ' Catalogue of the Birds 

 found in the vicinity of Calais, Maine,' admits a number of records for 

 the vicinity but over the State line, and that Mr. Boardman had informed 

 him by letter that the two buzzards in question were records for New 

 Brunswick. This fact reduces the legitimate number for the State to 

 eight. — Ruthven Deane, Chicago, III. 



The Crab Hawk {Urubitinga) in the Island of St. Lucia, West Indies. 

 — On August 2, 1903, I observed and identified an example of Urubitinga 

 anthracina (Licht.) near the town of Soufriere, St. Lucia, British West 

 Indies. There are, I believe, no other records for the island, although the 

 bird very possibly is resident in the highlands of St. Lucia, as it is on 

 the neighboring island of St. Vincent, as St. Lucia is comparatively little 

 known ornithologically. On the other hand, the bird may have strayed 

 from St. Vincent during the late eruptions, as did great numbers of 

 Ramier (Columba squamosa Bonn.) which at that time visited the island 

 of Grenada. — Austin H. Clark, Boston, Mass. 



Scott's Sparrow in Colorado. — While engaged in field work for the 

 Biological Survey in the fall of 1903, I collected an immature male Scott's 

 Sparrow (Aimophila ruficeps scottii) at Trinidad, Colorado- — the first 

 record for the State. It was taken September 17, 1903, on a pifion ridge 

 near the city, and was evidently migrating southward at the time. — 

 Arthur H. Howell, Washington, D. C. 



Nelson's Sparrow in Nebraska. — On the Sth of October last I collected 

 the first specimen of Nelson Sparrow (Awniodranius nelsoni) in this 

 State. It was a j'oung male and was a member of a flock of about a dozen 

 birds mingled with great numbers of Leconte and Grasshopper Sparrows, 

 in a marsh surrounding a pond northeast of this city. The birds were 

 shy, only occasionally mounting to a weed-stalk or grass-stem for a 

 moment to take a look at the intruder ; and no note was heard but a 

 low chip, not distinguishable from the notes of the associated species. — 

 Robert H. Wolcott, Lincoln, Nebr. 



