390 General Notes. \Jo^ 



have another name; and since I have been unable to tind one ah-eadv 

 provided I propose to name it ^SIegascops asio cineraceus, from its 

 ashy coloring. This is the '' Mega scops asio tric/iopsis" of mv Manual 

 of North American Birds (p. 261), and also the [Scops «5/(j] Subsp. 8 

 Scops trichopsis of Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. II, 1875, 119. — Robert 

 RiDGWAY, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 



The St. Lucas Flycatcher in California. — During the latter part of 

 June, 1895, a few days were spent in collecting in the pine growth on 

 Cujmaca Peak, San Diego County. Between the altitudes of 4000 feet 

 and 6000 feet sevei^al Empidonax cineritiiis were taken and they were found 

 to be rather common and the only species of the genus met with at that 

 altitude. A few E. piisillus were found nesting at the base of the peak 

 at an altitude of 3700 feet. In July pusillus was found along the base 

 of San Jacinto Peak, Riverside County, and E. hammo?tdi was taken as 

 high as 9500 feet, where it was nesting. It is possible that E. cineritius 

 may occur between the ranges of pusillus and hammotidi on San Jacinto, 

 as Flycatchers were seen that resembled that species but no specimens 

 were secured. 



The recorded range of the St. Lucas Flycatcher is hereby extended 

 north of the Mexican boundary and the species added to the avifauna 

 of California.— A. W. Anthony, Satt Diego, Cal. 



Skylarks Nesting on Long Island. — At Flatbush, Long Island, July 

 28, 1S95, after I had for a couple of hours been listening to the strains 

 of the Skylark (Alauda arvensis) as they were poured from the sky, 

 a resident of the neighborhood kindly guided me to the spot, in a held 

 near by, where, about two weeks previously, he had found a Skylark's 

 nest. The nest contained when he found it, he said, three half-tiedged 

 joung ones and one egg. When the nest was pointed out to me the 

 egg was still there, but the fledglings had departed. 



The land on which we were standing was grassy and slightly 'rolling,' 

 and the nest was situated about midway on the descent of one of the 

 rolls. In the spring preceding, while the ground was soft, a horse and 

 cart had been driven but once across the field, making a deep track, and 

 in one of the horse's foot-prints, about three inches deep, the nest was 

 made. To form and complete the nest, the bird had rounded away 

 the angles of the foot-print and scantily lined it with dried rootlets and 

 coarse gi-ass. — Thomas Proctor, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



The American Crossbill. — The American Crossbill is usually quite 

 common in this vicinity during the winter months, and a few birds remain 

 until quite late in the spring. A flock of about thirty remained on the 

 Maine State College campus from March 4 to June 19, 1S95, and at an\- 

 time thej' could be found feeding in the pine trees with which the 

 college campus is covered. Birds shot from this flock at intervals showed 



