68 General Notes. Auk 
Jan. 
the Hon. Clarence Lexow, of New York. A northeast gale was blowing 
against which the birds were flying with much difficulty. A heavy rain 
soon set in and the wind blew furiously, still the flight continued and it 
was rarely that the chain was broken, even for a few seconds. The 
appearance of a Sparrow Hawk among them had the effect of causing the 
birds to rise to a great height, but the flight was in no respect retarded. 
After watching the birds nearly all of the forenoon we made a careful 
estimate of the number that had passed and we calculated that it was not 
to be reckoned by tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, but by 
millions. —JoHNn Lewis CurLps, Floral Park, N. Y. 
Intelligence of the Shrike. —When studying birds in Florida last year, 
I took a shot ata fine specimen of the Southern Shrike (Lanius ludovi- 
ctanus) for the purpose of adding him to my collection. The bird flew a 
considerable distance, wounded, and attempted to light in the branches of 
a tree, but was unable to do so and fell to the ground. As I approached 
to pick him up, he arose from the ground, issued a cry of distress and 
fluttered away with great difficulty. Immediately another Butcher-bird 
darted out from some near-by tree, flew to its wounded companion, cir- 
cled about him and underneath him, buoying him up as he was about to 
sink to the ground. These tactics were repeated continually, the birds 
rising higher and flying further away until they had gone nearly out of 
sight and safely lodged in the top of a tall pine. I did not pursue the 
bird further, feeling that such devotion and intelligent assistance on the 
part of the second bird was worthy of success. In all my observations of 
birds I never before, or since, witnessed such an interesting exhibition. 
—JouN Lewis Cups, Floral Park, N. 1. 
The Bohemian Waxwing in Onondaga County, N. Y.— During the 
hard snow storm of Feb. 10, 1899, a flock of about 50 Cedar Waxwings 
were seen in a mountain ash tree, feeding on the berries. The tree is on 
one of the principal residence streets of Syracuse, and is thickly populated, 
The observer, being an amateur collector, and living but a few houses 
from the place, returned for his gun and shot into the flock, securing 
several Cedar Waxwings, and one, which was seen to drop some distance 
from the tree, proved to be a Bohemian Waxwing (Amfelis garrulus). 
This is the first specimen recorded from Onondaga County. It seems 
strange that this bird should be associated with its brother species. 
I would like to know if it has been taken or recorded farther south than 
Syracuse, and whether these two species are in the habit of flocking 
together >— A. W. Perrior, Syracuse, WV. Y. 
Date of Discovery and Type Locality of the Mountain Mockingbird. — 
The formal description*of Orpheus montanus in Townsend’s Narr., 1839, 
App. p. 338, states that the bird ‘‘ inhabits the banks of the Platte River, 
west of the Rocky Mountains.” This is impossible, as there is no Platte 
