^°*i9i4'^^] General Notes. 541 



Evening Grosbeaks at Jamaica Plain, Mass. — In the April number 

 of ' The Auk,' Mr. Edward H. Athorton reports an Evening Grosbeak {Hes- 

 periphotta vespertina vespertina) in the Arnold Arboretum. The bird re- 

 mained for about six weeks the last date of observation being Februarj^ 8, 

 1914. 



This however was not the only appearance of this species in the Arbore- 

 tum this season. On March 15, 1914, with Mr. Ralph M. Harrington of 

 Cambridge, Mass., and the writer saw two fine males and one female in the 

 river birches near the superintendent's house where they were feeding on 

 the seeds. The males were uttering low whistling notes. The female was 

 much darker than the bird noted by Mr. Atherton. They were seen several 

 times in about the same place for just a month (March 15-April 15). A 

 number of times two males and one female were observed at Quincy, 

 Mass., and on those identical dates the birds were not to be found in the 

 Arboretum. Were they the same birds? The two places are only about 

 eight miles apart. — Harold S. Barrett, Jamaica Plain, Mass. 



Chestnut-collared Longspur in Colorado. — I have to record the 

 occurrence of a single male of this species (Calcarius ornatus) at Denver, 

 Colo., on June 17, 1914. This species is an extremely rare summer 

 visitor to Colorado; the individual seen on June 17, being the first and 

 only one seen in the state during more than twenty years' residence in 

 Colorado. — W. H. Bergtold, Denver, Colo. 



The Snow Bunting Again in the Chicago Area. — In a previous num- 

 ber of ' The Auk ' ' I reported a few records of the Snow Bunting seen by me 

 in Chicago and vicinity during the fall and winter of 1912, the interest 

 being that the species is a supposedly irregular visitant here. In 1913 a 

 few birds again appeared, from one to nine being observed at Jackson and 

 Lincoln Parks, Chicago, from October 17 to November 22 inclusive. As 

 did the birds of 1912 these disappeared as soon as the beaches had become 

 covered with ice. No more were seen until February 21, 1914, when about 

 twenty appeared at Lincoln Park, not about the beaches, but feeding over 

 newly made land some distance away. 



While it is generaUy beUeved that the Snow Bunting is an irregular winter 

 visitant to this region, it is more probable that it is a regular one. The 

 records of another observer, J. H. Ferry, who states that the species is 

 locally a common winter resident here, tend to support this view.^ Unless 

 one makes many excursions to various localities he is likely to overlook the 

 birds entirely, as they do not, according to Mr. Ferry's observations and 

 my own, remain long in a single place. 



lAuk 30: 275. 1913. 

 2 Auk 24: 127. 1907. 



