3 go General Notes. fee 
Audubon’s type of roscoe was an immature bird, of which he wrote : ‘* Not 
long after the publication of my first volume, I discovered the error which 
I had committed in making the bird represented in my twenty-fourth 
plate a new species, it being only the young of Sy/uéa trichas of Jatham” 
(Orn. Biog. V, 463). It is true that Audubon might have described the 
young of the resident bird, and hence, therefore, of the Florida Yellow- 
throat which, Mr. Palmer states with such positiveness, occurs “along 
the Gulf Coast.” Audubon’s type, however, was taken in western Miss- 
issippi in September, the month when the southward migration of ¢richas 
reaches its height, and, furthermore, was shot from ‘“‘ the top branches of a 
high cypress” (Orn. Biog. I, 124)— facts which, to my mind, essentially 
prove it to have been a representative of the northern and not of the resi- 
dent bird, for which latter, therefore, we are not qualified in adopting the 
name roscoe. — FRANK M. CHAPMAN, American Museum.of Natural His- 
tory, New York City. 
The Mockingbird at Barnegat, N. J., and on Long Island, N. Y.— 
On August 25, while in the vicinity of Barnegat, N. J., ] was surprised 
to see a pair of wild Mockingbirds (A@imus folyglottos), and on inquiry 
I found a man who said he had heard a Mockingbird singing several 
times during the spring and early summer. On the following day I saw 
another Mockingbird, presumably one of those I had seen the day pre- 
vious, as it was near the same locality. 
On August 27, at Floral Park, L. I., saw a Sane bird light on the 
top of one of the full-grown maple trees that line the avenue along which 
I was walking. Before I had approached very near the bird again took 
wing and from the manner of its flight, its size, and prominent white 
patches upon its wing, Iam confident that it was a Mockingbird. While 
the distance was rather great to identify it absolutely, I know of no other 
bird which could have shown such wing color, except the Red-headed 
Woodpecker, but its manner of flight was not that of the Woodpecker, 
and we certainly would not expect to see a Woodpecker perched 
on the top branches of a tree like a Robin. —JoHN Lerwis CHILDs, 
Floral Park, Long Island, N. Y. 
Brief Michigan Notes. — Cook, in his Birds of Michigan, records Baird’s 
Sandpiper and Gray-cheeked Thrush as rare in the State. As a matter of 
fact both are common migrants here. My acquaintance with the Sand- 
piper (Zriénga bairdit) dates trom 1890. I collected about twenty-five 
specimens during July and August of that year, and noticed several hun- 
dred. They make their appearance the latter part of July and are rarely 
seen after September 1.. They prefer the Least and Semi-palmated Sand- 
pipers for companions but I have often observed them among flocks of 
the Pectoral Sandpiper, Lesser Yellow-legs and Killdeer. The Gray- 
cheeked Thrush (//ylocichla alicte) arrives trom the north about a week 
