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ClifE Swallow {Petrochelidon lunijrons Say)- — A Cuban Record. — 

 I beg to report the taking of a male specimen of the Cliff Swallow on 

 November 11, 1911. It was flying with others of this species in a band of 

 Barn Swallows (Hirundo erythrogustra) , quite early that morning, over 

 abandoned cane fields of the San Carlos Estate, Guantanamo, Cuba. 

 This I believe is the first Cuban record for the species. — Chas. T. Ramsden, 

 Guantanamo, Cuba. 



The Connecticut Warbler in Central Park, New York City. — I 



was fortunate enough to find an individual of the Connecticut Warbler 

 (Oporornis agilis) in Central Park on May 16. The bird was a male in 

 curious plumage, as there was not the usual amount of slate-gray on the 

 breast. At first sight I thought it was a Nashville Warbler, but soon 

 noticed it walking on the ground, with its tail up in the air, and then ob- 

 tained a view of its breast. It was absurdly tame, and was within eight 

 feet of me, when first observed. During the day I showed it to about ten 

 bird students. Mr. W. deW. Miller, of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, came over in the afternoon, and four of us leaned in a row on a 

 fence, while the bird walked unconcernedly around catching flies, not more 

 than 15 feet from us. We were able to make out every detail, including 

 the elongated tail-coverts. Part of the time the bird was so close that I 

 was unable to focus on it with my binoculars. The Warbler remained in 

 the Park in the rhododendron bushes for six days, walking about fre- 

 quently in the open. This species is apparently a very rare spring 

 migrant along the Atlantic Coast. — Ludlow Griscom, New York City. 



Type of the Genus Saxicola. In the April number of ' The Auk', p. 

 271, in commenting upon Mr. Gregory Mathews' discussion of the type- 

 of the genus Saxicola, I insisted that Gray's designation of S. cenanthe as 

 the type settled the matter. While this conclusion is correct when we 

 consider only the data presented by Mr. Mathews in the January Ibis, 

 I entirely overlooked another paper (Novitates Zoologicae, XVIII, June, 

 1911, p. 20), in which he calls attention to the earlier designation by 

 Swainson in 1827, of Motacilla rubicola. This, of course, alters the situa- 

 tion and renders necessary the use of Saxicola for the Chats {Pratincola 

 of authors) while (Enanthe, as stated by Mr. Mathews, will have to be 

 used for the Wheatears. — Wither Stone, Acad. Nat. Sciences, Phil- 

 adelphia. 



Two Interesting Records for Canada. — Arquatella maritima 

 couesi (Ridg.) Aleutian Sandpiper. In going over the collections 

 of the Geological Survey in the Museum, I find three specimens of this 

 form of the Purple Sandpiper taken by Mr. Wm. Spreadborough at 

 Clayquot, Vancouver Island, B. C, May 11, 1907. The subspecific 

 determination was made by Dr. Jonathan Dwight who remarks that they 

 are " undoubtedly couesi " though darker than the typical coloration and 



