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anv definite inloriiiation as to locality and date. Through the kindness 

 of Mr. Frederick C. Pierce of Chicago I am now enabled to record a 

 third specimen which was taken in Cicero, in December, 1902, and is 

 now in his possession. — • Ruthven Deane, Chicago, III. 



Capture of the Barn Owl {Strix praiincola) on Long Island, New 

 York. — This species is sufficiently rare on Long- Island to make it worth 

 while to record a specimen shot February 17, 1903, at Montauk Point. 

 The bird was sent to me by Mr. Everett C. King, who wrote that it had 

 been seen flying about for two or three days after a hard snow storm. 

 He also stated that this bird and one shot two years ago are the only ones 

 of the kind he has seen in eleven years. — Jonathan Dwight, Jr., M. D., 

 Ne-w York City. 



The Second Known Specimen of Centurus nyeanus Ridgway. — -On 

 landing at Cockburn Town, Watling's Island, Bahamas, July 11, 1903, 

 in company with Mr. S. H. Derickson, being very desirous of obtaining 

 reliable data as to the status of the above species {cf. Nye, Auk, XVI, July, 

 1899, 273), we struck out to find timber and arrived on the shores of the 

 first lake about a mile back of the port. This lake and the large lake con- 

 nected with it are surrounded with low hills, covered with a low growth 

 of trees, where they have not been cleared for sisal planting. While 

 standing talking Avith Mr. McDonald, the resident justice, concerning 

 woodpeckers and being told that he had never seen one there during a six 

 months' residence, we heard a note resembling the rolling call of the 

 Belted Kingfisher and supposed it was that bird. In a little v.^hile the 

 bird flashed across the road and lit in a rather thick clump of trees out of 

 sight. On going back to shoot the supposed kingfisher what was my 

 surprise to behold the very species I w^as looking for. It is now No. 

 1S9685, U. S. National Museum, $ ad. The specimen is in worn plum- 

 age and hardly comparable with the type. While the top of the head in 

 the type is a brilliant scarlet-vermilion, my specimen has faded out to an 

 orange-vermilion; the feathers covering the nostrils in my specimen are 

 less extensively scarlet, and the lower parts so worn as not to be compai-- 

 able. It measures: wing, 129; tail, SS ; exposed culmen, 32 mm. We 

 were told that these woodpeckers, while not at all common, came down 

 from the hills during the winter and did considerable damage to the 

 oranges by making a small opening in the side of the fruit and extracting 

 the pulp. We were shown orange trees in which nearly all the ripe fruit 

 was thus destroyed, some of it still hanging on the trees. Although we 

 made special efforts to secure additional specimens, during our limited 

 stay, we did not hear or see any more. — J- H. Riley, Washington, D. C. 



Nighthawk Migration in New Hampshire. — One of the most interest- 

 incr regular migration movements that[has come under my notice I have 



