570 General Notes. [$£. 



and " The Black Indian Cuckow " of Edwards (Nat. Hist. Birds, II, 1747, 

 pi. 59 and pi. 58), which represent quite unmistakably the species in ques- 

 tion. The name scolopaceus, which stands first on the page, should be used 

 for the species, and the fourteen races currently recognized must be known 

 as: — 



Eudynamys scolopacea scolopacea (Linne). 



Eudynamys scolopacea malayana Cabanis and Heine. 



Eudynamys scolopacea harterti Ingram. 



Eudynamys scolopacea ?nindanensis (Linne). 



Eudynamys scolopacea facialis Wallace. 



Eudynamys scolopacea melanorhyncha S. Miiller. 



Eudynamys scolopacea orientalis (Linne). 



Eudynamys scolopacea everetti Hartert. 



Eudynamys scolopacea rufivenier (Lesson). 



Eudynamys scolopacea alberti Rothschild and Hartert. 



Eudynamys scolopacea salvadorii Hartert. 



Eudynamys scolopacea cyanocephala (Latham). 



Eudynamys scolopacea subcya?}ocephala Mathews. 



Eudynamys scolopacea flindersii Vigors and Horsfield. 



Thomas E. Penard, Arlington, Mass. 



Aerial Evolutions of a Flicker. — While out with the class in bird study 

 on May 25, 1919, my attention was attracted to a large bird going through 

 some very peculiar maneuvers. He was just across a ravine and about 

 four hundred yards away from where we stood. When first noticed, he 

 was about fifty feet from the ground and ascending in peculiar, bumpy, 

 and jerky spirals. This was maintained until a height of about 350-400 

 feet was reached, when, after a short pause, a reverse of practically 

 the same performance was gone through. The Flicker (Coloptes auratuS 

 luteus), for as such he was identified by this time, then alighted in a cherry 

 tree, just above a female that we had previously failed to notice, and com- 

 pleted the performance by going through his more familiar courting antics. 

 , I wonder if others have seen the Flicker do this. — C. W. Leister, McGraw 

 Hall, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Two Recent Records of the Horned Lark in Western New York. — 



Owing, perhaps, to the paucity of published records, local ornithologists 

 have for some time regarded the Horned Lark (Otocoris alpestris alpestris) 

 as rare, or at least uncommon, in this general locality. In treating of the 

 subspecies in his ' Birds of New York ' (1914), Eaton remarks that for 

 fifteen years he has failed to secure any specimens on the shores of Lakes 

 Erie and Ontario. He adds, however, that the bird unquestionably does 

 occur there in the winter or during the migration time in the late fall. 

 These facts have led me to place on record two recent dates of its occur- 

 rence near the village of Hamburg, about fifteen miles south of the city of 

 Buffalo. 



