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Tin R8TON AND BOYLE, Long hhunl liirds. 543 



approached the tree in which they were roosting, the birds flew. We re- 

 mained quietly seated on the roof of a musk-rat house, which was situated 

 beneath the tree ami I heard one of the owls give a warble-like note. 

 Presently they began to return. I counted twelve and my companion saw 

 fifteen. We made our exit from under their roost without further disturb- 

 ing them. The Owls were also seen on February 9 and 15, 1913. (V>) 



Cryptoglaux acadica acadica. Saw-whet Owl. — I got my first 

 record for the Saw-whet Owl at Floral Park, L. I., on November 24, 1912. 

 A hoy brought in a beautiful immature specimen which he had found dead 

 in the woods. (T) 



*Ceryle alcyon alcyon. Belted Kingfisher. — At North Beach, a 

 sandy strip near Flushing, L. I., on the twenty-sixth of February, 1911, 

 1 saw a Kingfisher. (B) 



*Archilochus colubris. Ruhv-throated Hummingbird. — While sail- 

 ing out of New York Harbor on the tenth of May, 1912, a Ruby-throated 

 Hummingbird flew aboard the boat while off the lower Staten Island shore 

 and hovered a few minutes around the awnings, finally flying toward the 

 Long Island shore. It was a male bird and undoubtedly made Long 

 Island as I had a strong pair of glasses and was able to follow its flight, which 

 was direct for that shore. (T ) 



Tyrannus tyrannus. Kingbird. — At Mastic, L. I., on August 24, 

 1912, while walking with Mr. John Trcadwell Nichols near his home we 

 observed straggling flocks of migrating Kingbirds that numbered about 

 three hundred individuals. The birds seemed to be following a fixed route 

 as every one would first approach us by flying along the banks of a small 

 stream near which we were standing and upon reaching a point a little 

 above our station branched off and took an inland course. 



Kingbirds seemed unusually common on Long Island during the fall 

 season of L912. (T) 



*Corvus ossifragus. Fish Crow. — A common resident this winter, 

 if not every one. Early in the frosty mornings from my window I can see 

 them journeying with their common black cousins to a garbage dump that 

 lies east of Floral Park. On December 25, 1912, I collected one from a 

 mixed flock of about three; hundred birds that descended on our grounds. 

 About seventy-five of this flock were C. ossifragus. More were also seen 

 on February '- >s >. 1913, at the same dump. (T) 



Sturnus vulgaris. EuBOPEAN Starling. — On the 19th of February 

 at Moral Park, L. I., I saw a flock of Starlings, conservatively estimated to 

 contain five thousand birds. 



A habil of Starlings which might be of interest to those who have not 

 witnessed it is thai of indulging in mid-night serenades. Several times in 

 the evening, once or twice rather late, I have passed at Hempstead, 

 I. I., a couple of churches with old-fashioned towers that make fine roost- 

 ing places for numbers of these birds and have always heard them squeak- 

 ing, hissing or whistling. On March 4, 1913, one was sounding his rich 

 melodious call at the top of his voice, at 10.30 p. m. (T) 



