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showed signs of breeding. Fully developed broken eggs were taken from 

 two of the birds. Two specimens were taken at East Pass on Apr. 2. 

 Many more birds might have been secured. The Snowy Plover was the 

 most common of the shore birds at the localities named. — Geo. K. 

 Cherrie, Field Museum, Chicago, III. 



Buteo albicaudatus in Arizona. — While driving across the desert 

 between Florence and Red Rock, Arizona, a large nest upon which a 

 Hawk was sitting was noticed close by the road. The nest was built in 

 a mesquite tree and but ten feet from the ground. 



The bird remained on tlie nest until I approached within easy gun shot. 

 From the gray appearance of its head I at once took it for Buteo sxvain- 

 5o«/and refrained from shooting it. A M-ave of the hand started the bird, 

 which left the nest from the opposite side. As soon as the bird came in 

 full view I realized my error, and hastily iired a shot after it ; as the load 

 was a light one, the bird flew away minus but a few feathers. I have 

 seen in life and in their native wilds twenty-six species of our Hawk 

 family, twenty of which I have taken, but this was a new one to me — a 

 Hawk Avhich I had never seen before. 



Its white tail, including the rump, with broad terminal band of black, 

 chestnut shoulders, gray head, and light colored breast with a few dark 

 markings, and its size, which equals that of Buteo borealis, puts to rest 

 all doubt but that the bird was Buteo albicaudatus. 



Being so far from its ascribed range, I have looked up all of the avail- 

 able history bearing upon this species, and so far as I can learn no speci- 

 mens have been taken in the United States outside of a small portion of 

 the southern corner of Texas. 



After leaving the nest the Hawk flew to the dead top of a mesquite, a 

 quarter of a mile away. I started after it at once, hoping that I might 

 yet secure the parent of the egg which I had just taken. I had crossed 

 probably one fourth of the intervening distance, when the bird arose 

 with powerful strokes of its wings, circling upward until but a speck in 

 the sky. I could not tarry long in hope of securing the bird, and with 

 much reluctance the journey was resumed. The distance between Florence 

 and Red Rock is almost forty miles, between which places no water fit 

 for man or beast is to be found. 



The egg taken was far advanced in incubation. In size, shape and color 

 it resembles one of the lighter unmarked eggs of Buteo borealis. — George 

 F. Breninger, Phoenix, Arizona. 



Additional Records of the Flammulated Owl {Megascops /lammeola) 

 in Colorado. — On the 27th of May, 1S97, I secured a set of two fresh 

 eggs, and on the 29th a set of three eggs slightly incubated, of the Flam- 

 mulated Screech Owl, and in both cases secured the female bird. The 

 first set was secured in an old Woodpecker's hole in an old pine stub, 

 about eiffhteen feet from the ground, at an altitude of about 7200 feet, 



