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thrushes singing on July 17, 1904, in the willows bordering Pueblo Creek, 

 just beyond the Pueblo of Taos. As the birds are ' not uncommon' in 

 Colorado, it would not be strange to find them in suitable localities 

 thirty miles south of the borderline. 



Skins of male and female Galeoscoptes carolinensis had previously been 

 sent in from Rinconada under date of June 4, 1904, and we found Cat- 

 birds fairly common in the thickets bordering Pueblo Creek the second 

 week in July. One was seen carrying food on July 15. On July 14, as 

 we drove along the road our attention was attracted by the cries of a pair 

 of Catbirds in the adjoining thicket, and when Mr. Bailey forced his way 

 through the tangle he found the nest empty except for one headless nest- 

 ling whose murder the old birds were bewailing. 



Dcndroica ccerulescens, while migrating only ' casually to the east base 

 of the Rocky Mountains,' had previously been recorded from the Rio 

 Mimbres and Rio Grande in New Mexico, and on October 8, 1904, Mr. 

 Bailey took one in the Gallinas Mountains, near the middle of Rio Arriba 

 County. The bird, which was shot from a high conifer in a gulch, proved 

 to be a male in first fall plumage. — Florence Merriam Bailey, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



The former Status of the Flamingo and the Fish Hawk in the Lesser 

 Antilles. — In the writings of Dutertre (Histoire generale des Isles des 

 Christophie, de la Guadeloupe, de la Martinique, et autres dans 1' AmeVi- 

 que, 1654, p. 300; Hist. gen. des Antilles habitues par les Francois, II, 

 1667, p. 268) we find the Flamingo (flambant ; flaman ; flamand) men- 

 tioned as occurring at that time in Guadeloupe. He says, regarding this 

 bird: "Rare, and only seen in the 'salines' farthest away from habita- 

 tions. The young are more white than the adults, but become redder 

 with age." Although no definite locality is given, Guadeloupe is prob- 

 ably meant (the other islands considered being St. Kitts, Dominica, 

 Martinique, and Grenada), as the author resided there, and in all cases 

 where an animal or bird described does not occur on that island (as for 

 instance the armadillo, 1667, p. 29S, of Grenada) he gives its habitat. 

 Moreover, the zoological notes are largely confined to the fauna of 

 Guadeloupe. This is also, I believe, the first mention of the lighter 

 (less red) plumage of the young bird. 



Mr. Francis Coull (at present residing at Grenada) tells me that for- 

 merly Flamingos were of casual occurrence at Antigua, and he once saw 

 several in the Five Island swamps, about forty years ago. He has not 

 heard of them on the island since that time, although they were then 

 well known to many of the natives under the name "Flamingo." There 

 is no mistaking Mr Coull's identification, and the locality is very favor- 

 able for the birds. 



At Anegada, the most northerly of the Virgin Islands, where the con- 

 ditions are much like those in the Bahamas, I am informed by a resident 

 that thev are still of casual occurrence. Dr. Christian Branch of St. 



