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51. Merula migratoria propinqua. Western Ro}5IN. — Found 

 throughout the Coulee but nowhere very plentiful. 



52. Sialia arctica. Mountain Bluebird. — Two specimens obtained 

 in the Grand Coulee, both north of the middle. No others seen any- 

 where in the Big Bend country. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The Dovekie {Alle allc) on Long Island, N. Y. — January 15, 1903, Mr. 

 George W. Mott of Westminster Kennel Club brought in a Dovekie to 

 be mounted. I inquired where he procured it, and he informed me that 

 it had been given him by a boy who found it the morning previous, 

 lying in the road midway between the steamboat dock and Babylon 

 Village. It evidently had struck either the electric light or telephone 

 wires, as the neck and breast were much bruised. The bird was found 

 in a road crossing meadows near Great South Bay, and at least three 

 and one half miles from the ocean. Both plumage and body were in 

 good condition. — Henry Mott Burtis, Babylon, L. I. 



A Hybrid Duck, Anas boschas X Nettion carolinetisis. — Hybrids among 

 the Anatidae are well known to be of frequent occurrence and some of the 

 crosses are so common as to be scarcely worthy of record. A specimen 

 that has recently come into possession of the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia, however, seems to be quite an unusual mixture, and 

 a hasty glance through the literature fails to discover a similar record, 

 although there are several instances of hybrids between Anas boschas and 

 the old world species Nettion crecca. 



The bird in question was secured by my friend. Dr. Charles B. Penrose 

 of Philadelphia, on the upper part of Currituck Sound, N. C., on January 

 i7» '903' It is a drake and combines in almost equal proportions the 

 characters of the Mallard and Green-winged Teal. The back is mainly 

 Teal with the plainer feathers of the Mallard showing on the median 

 line; the wings are also those of the Teal but the speculum is bluer and 

 edged with black, while the fulvous bar is mixed with black and white. 

 Below the belly is duskj' like the Mallard's, with the same fine transverse 

 vermiculations, and while the breast is spotted with black like the Teal's, 

 the ground color is rich chestnut, with a tendency to lighter edges to the 

 feathers as in the Mallard. The head is solid green like that of the Mal- 

 lard with a narrow white neck band, and with a rufous frosting on the 

 occiput covering part of the area so colored in the Teal. On the sides of 

 the breast are the characteristic diagonal white stripes of the Teal. 

 Size intermediate between the two. 



