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times to her dead mate whicli had been shot, before finally being 

 killed herself; during this time she alighted a little distance 

 away and, swimming up to the dead male, kept continually honk- 

 ing and calling to him. As there were at the time several flocks 

 of these Ducks not far distant, resting on the water, and as in flying 

 about she had passed quite close to them, she might have joined 

 them had she been so disposed, but she would not. The incident 

 stands out alone in my experience, a most unusual exhibition of 

 attachment on the part of the female for the male, it almost inva- 

 rial)ly being the other way with sea fowl. 



Oldsquaws are also very numerous in October in some of the 

 great inland lakes (Ontario). I have also a record of shooting 

 five from a flock of six on October 24, 1S69, at Missisquoi Bay, 

 Lake Champlain, Vermont, near the boundary line of Canada. 



LIST OF BIRDS OBSERVED IN THE VICINITY OF 

 SAN ANTONIO, BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS. 



BY H. P. ATTWATER. 

 [Concluded from p. 2j8J] 



n8. Spinus tristis. American Goldfinch. — Common migrant, and 

 winter resident. 



119. Spinus psaltria arizonae. Arizona Goldfinch. — Rare migraat 

 and winter resident. 



120. Spinus psaltria mexicanus. Mexican Goldfinch. — Rare winter 

 resident, but more numerous than arizoncB. It is also a rare summer 

 resident among the hills twenty-five mile* northwest of San Antonio ; a 

 male, shot June 8, 1S90, which was feeding its young, is said to be "prob- 

 ably as typical as any United States specimens." I have taken all three 

 forms {tristis, arizonoe and 7nexicanus') in winter, feeding together in 

 the same flock, inside the city limits of San Antonio. 



121. Calcarius ornatus. Chestnut-collared Longspur. — Common 

 migrant. 



122. Rhynchophanes mccownii. McCown's Longspur. — Rare winter 

 resident. 



123. Poocaetes gramineus. Vesper Sparrow. — Common migrant 

 and winter resident. 



124. Poocaetes gramineus confinis. Western Vesper Sparrow. — 

 Abundant migrant and winter resident. 



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