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female was found upon excavating the burrow, and taken alive. Some 

 pairs of the birds were very unsuspicious, and others again exceedingly 

 wild and systematically shy. In many cases the birds had two burrows, 

 always close together, but one would be quite short, and apparently used 

 but little, probably by the male bird as a roosting place, for I believe 

 these birds to be strictly diurnal, doing most of their hunting, however, in 

 the early morning and evening. 



The series of birds of this species obtained at this point, during the 

 week spent there, numbers fifty-three, forty-eight adults and five young 

 birds in the down. 



Conurus carolinensis. — This can only be considered a nomadic visitor 

 in this part of Florida. They appear, generally in the fall on the upper 

 waters of the river, in small parties, feeding on the cypress mast. But, 

 from the reliable information furnished by Capt. Menge and others, it 

 appears that they are still common residents, and that they breed in the 

 cypress swamps on the northeast side of Lake Okeechobee. 



Campephilus principalis. — This species, though not common, is not very 

 rare in this region. I obtained six individuals and saw and heard about 

 as many more. They breed here early in February 



Ceophlceus pileatus. — During early April I found two nests of this spe- 

 cies, each containing four fresh eggs. The first, on April 9, was in a 

 dead cabbage palmetto, forty-five feet from the ground, and these eggs 

 were unfortunately broken in being taken from the nest. The second 

 set was taken on April 12, from a nest in a dead pine tree, and the en- 

 trance to this nest was but fifteen feet from the ground. 



Antrostomus vociferus. — Winters regularly in the vicinity of Fort 

 Myers. During December and January I took two and saw and heard 

 others. 



Myiarchus crinitus. — Winters regularly in the vicinity of Fort Myers 

 and I'unta Rassa. Several specimens were secured during December, 

 January, and February. 



PITTA GRANATINA TEMMINCK ET AUCTORES. 



BY D. G. ELLIOT. 



My attention has lately been called again to the question of 

 the specific ditVerence of the Pittas with black foreheads and crim- 

 son napes from Borneo, on the one hand, and from Sumatra and 

 the Malay Peninsula, etc., on the other. I have always con- 



