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Tliat both of the foregoing records were made during the month of 

 October seems more than a mere coincidence. The migration of the owls 

 themselves, or the migration of certain birds which thej pursue, may 

 account for it. Be that as it may, the result has been the same and these 

 Islands have received their stock of owls as a result of some such circum- 

 stance. — Wm. Alanson Bryan, Bishop Museum, Houolnlu, H. I. 



Note on Psitacula modesta Cabanis. — Psitacula niodc>.ta Cabanis 

 (Schomburgk, Reisen in British-Guiana, III, 1848, 727) was described 

 from a female taken in British Guiana. This specimen, so far as known 

 to me, has until now remained unique. Count Salvadori in 1S91 (Cat. 

 Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. XX, p. 245, footnote) sa vs : "Graf von Berlepsch, 

 who has recently examined the tjpical specimen in the Museum of 

 Berlin, has sent me a description of it, which agrees in every respect with 

 the female of Psittacula sclateri:'' Salvin, five years earlier (Ibis, 1SS6, 

 p. 70) stated, under Psittacula modesta: "Graf von Berlepsch is of 

 opinion that P. sclateri \s referable to this species. P. modesta being the 

 older title." 



Berlepsch and Hartert, in their recent memoir ' On the Birds of the 

 Orinoco Region ' (Nov. Zool., Vol. IX, p. 108, April, 1902 ) record a male 

 specimen of P.' sclateri' from "La Union on the Caura River," Vene- 

 zuela, without further comment. This is the most eastern record of P. 

 sclateri I have met with, the previous records being from Peru and 

 Ecuador. 



I have before me a male specimen taken by Mr. C. C. Young, on the 

 Saramaca River, Dutch Guiana, May 31, 1899. It bears a striking 

 resemblance to a male specimen of P. sclateri (No. 6313, Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist.), from the Verreaux Collection, labeled "Rio Javarri " ( a cotype ? ). 

 The Guiana bird differs in being of a lighter, more yellowish green 

 below, particularly on the breast, and in the rump being of a brighter 

 shade of ultramarine. That the two forms are specifically the same there 

 seems no reason for doubt, but it seems probable that the Andean form is 

 separable from the Guiana form, although the differences, judging from 

 the specimens here under notice, are not strongly marked, the two forms 

 being recognizable, respectively, as Psittacula modesta and P. modesta 

 sclateri. — J. A. Allen, American Museum of Natural History, Netv 

 York City. 



Breeding of the Evening Grosbeak in Captivity. — In the spring of 1901, 

 I was given three Evening Grosbeaks alive, two females and a male, by 

 Mr. Geo. E. Atkinson. These birds were taken at Portage la Prairie, 

 Manitoba, one young female in 1899, and a pair in February, 1900. These 

 birds are typical Coccothraustes vespcrtinus, and had previously shown no 

 disposition to breed, nor did they till the spring of 1902.' In March I 

 noticed that the male was not getting on with the females as well as he 

 had previously, being frequently chased about by them ; in April he had 

 subdued them, and very soon showed a decided preference for one and so 



