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The Scarlet Ibis (Guara rubra) in Colorado. — My friend Mr. Livesey 

 informs me that whilst he and a party of friends were duck shooting on 

 Grape Creek in Wet Mountain Valley, Custer County, Colorado, in the 

 month of May. 1876, one of the party shot an exceedingly fine specimen 

 of this rare visitor. This bird was skinned and afterwards mounted by a 

 well known firm of taxidermists. So far as I am aware, this specimen, 

 which is now in Mr. Livesey's possession, was never recorded, and hence 

 my reason for making mention of it. — Willoughby P. Lowe, Pueblo, 

 Col. 



The Sandhill Crane {Grits mexicana). — A Correction. — In 'The Auk,' 

 Vol. VIII, pp. 30S, 309, I mentioned the capture of this bird,, but I 

 expressed my doubts in the article as to its positive identification. It 

 proves to be the Little Brown Crane (Grits canadensis) by careful 

 measurements and comparison with a specimen of Grus mexicana from 

 Florida. I can find but one other record of this bird for the Atlantic 

 coast, viz. : Brewster, Auk, Vol. VII, p. So. — Arthur T. Wayne, 

 Mount Pleasant, S. C. 



The Northern Phalarope. — A Correction. — In my article 'Notes on Cer- 

 tain Water Birds in Massachusetts' (Auk, XI, July, 1894), at end of 

 third line from bottom of page 226, read Northern, for Red. In last 

 word of article, page 228, read April, for May. — Geo. H. Mackay, 

 Nantucket, Mass. 



Colinus virginianus cubanensis not a Florida Bird. — Being respon- 

 sible for the introduction of the Cuban Bob-white into the North Amer- 

 ican list, I desire to state that its introduction was an error, explainable 

 as follows : — 



The only Cuban examples of the.genus in the National Museum collec- 

 tion, although not agreeing very well with the original description and 

 colored plate of -Ortyx cubanensis Gould, were naturally supposed to be 

 that subspecies. Birds from southwestern Florida proving to be more 

 like these than examples from more northern localities in Florida 

 (including those from Miami, on which Ortyx virginianus var.Jloridanus 

 Cones was based), in fact practically indistinguishable from them, it 

 seemed necessary to refer them to the Cuban form. Mr. Chapman has 

 since shown, however (Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., IV, 1893, No. 1, p. 

 290), that two very distinct forms occur in Cuba, the true Ortyx cuba- 

 nensis Gould, which is apparently confined to the mountains, and a form 

 which is "typical of the very dark Quail from southern Florida," which 

 latter he is inclined to think may have been introduced into Cuba. Mr. 

 Chapman having kindly allowed me to inspect his Cuban specimens I am 

 able to state that the specimens from southern Florida referred by me to 

 cubanensis are not that bird, but, unless distinguished by a new name, 

 must be referred to jloridanus. — Robert Ridgway, U. S. National 

 Museum, Washington, D. C, 



