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along the New Jersey coast, even as far south as the Cape May region, 

 but I do not know that it has ever been found breeding on Long Island. 

 There would seem to be little doubt, however, that it has recently nested 

 there at Long Beach. At that place, on May 25, 1917, I watched a pair 

 of these owls, evidently, from the disparity in their size, a male and female, 

 repeatedly attacking a single Crow. The birds were flying about over a 

 tract of dunes and thickets flanking a salt marsh inaccessible to me across 

 a broad creek. The Crow, perhaps to escape the Owls, perhaps intent on 

 depredation of their nest, several times swept down to the ground about a 

 certain spot, the Owls pursuing it or awaiting its return into the air when 

 attack and counter-attack were renewed. The following year at the same 

 place a pair were observed on February 22, attacking a Marsh Hawk, one 

 was seen on April 12, a pair on May 17, and again a single one on August 9. 

 — Eugene P. Bicknell, New York City. 



Early Occurrence of the Snowy Owl and the Pine Grosbeak in 

 Monroe County, New York. — On November 3, 1918, while riding on a 

 trolley car toward the lake, my attention was called by the motorman, to a 

 large Snowy Owl ( Nyctea nyctea) which was sitting on the top of a wooden 

 pole in a gravel bed and about 150 feet from the tracks. 



He also informed me that the bird had been in the same place while on a 

 previous trip an hour and a half before. Later it was seen to fly into a 

 nearby vineyard. The locality was in the town of Irondequoit, a mile and 

 a half from Lake Ontario. On the same afternoon at 3.30 o'clock, while 

 walking along the border of the woods at Durand-Eastman Park, near the 

 lake, I observed three Pine Grosbeaks (Pinicola enucleator leucura). 

 There were two females and one male, they were feeding in some bushes 

 close to the roadway and were very tame, allowing me to approach within 

 ten feet of them, when they would fly into the nearby bushes. This is 

 the earliest record that I can find of their occurrence in Monroe County. — 

 Lucius H. Paul, Rochester, N. Y. 



The Deep Plantar Tendons in the Puff-birds, Jacamars and their 

 Allies. — One of the most distinct and peculiar types of the deep plantar 

 tendons in birds is that known as the antiopelmous, characterizing certain 

 zygodactyl groups such as the Woodpeckers, Toucans and their allies. 

 In this arrangement of the simple flexor perforqns digitorum runs to the 

 third toe, while the trif urcate flexor longus hallucis supplies the first, second 

 and fourth toes. The two tendons are connected by a vinculum which 

 runs from the flexor longus to the flexor perforans. 



The nature of these tendons in the Puff-birds (Bucconidse) and Jacamars 

 (Galbulidae) is of special importance in determining the systematic position 

 of these families. Both are commonly given as antiopelmous, perhaps on 

 the sole authority of Garrod (cf. P. Z. S., 1875, p. 345; also Sclater's 

 Monograph of the Jacamars and Puff-birds, p. XXVIII). The following 

 species were examined by Garrod: Galbula rufoviridis, G. albirostris, and 



