V "' s - XI ] General Notes. 325 



Baird"s Sandpiper near Washington, D. C. — On Sept. 3, 1894, while 

 collecting Sandpipers and other birds on the floating confervas on the 

 flats in the Potomac River, off the mouth of Four Mile Run, Alexandria 

 County, Virginia, I took a fine immature male specimen of Tringa 

 bairdii. This specimen has been identified by Mr. Ridgvvay and is the 

 first recorded instance from the Virginias and the District of Columbia. 

 It was alone at the time, though hundreds of individuals of Ereunetes 

 pusillus, Tringa maculata and Tot anus flavipes were flying about or 

 feeding on the surface of the conferva;. — R. S. Matthews, Washington, 

 D. C. 



The Ruff and Western Sandpiper near Washington, D. C. — With other 

 Waders on the conferva; off the mouth of Four Mile Run, Alexandria 

 County, Virginia, I collected on September 3, 1894, an immature female 

 pavoncella pugnax. The condition of the specimen would warrant the 

 belief that it was bred on this continent. 



I also took on September 8, at the same place, an immature male 

 Ereunetes occideutalis, which is the first record from this locality. In 

 contrast with the excessive fatness of many specimens of the Least 

 and other Samdpipers taken lately at the same place, both the above, 

 especially the Sandpiper, were quite lean. A second specimen, an 

 immature female, was taken on Sept. 11, at the same place, by Mr. 

 R. S. Matthews. These specimens were seen and identified by Mr. 

 R. Ridgway.— William Palmer, Washington, D. C. 



An Asiatic Cuckoo on the Pribylof Islands, Alaska.— An adult male 

 Cuckoo (No. 118864U. S. N. M. Coll.) that I collected among the sand 

 dunes of Northeast Point, St. Paul's Island, on July 4, 1S90, has been 

 identified by Dr. L. Stejneger as Cuculus canorus telephojius (Heine). 

 This bird, whose summer habitat is Japan and Kamtschatka, has several 

 times been taken on Bering Island. When collected it was busily 

 engaged capturing some large flies, which are abundant on these islands, 

 and with which its stomach was literally packed. It had been seen by 

 the natives in the same place for more than two weeks, and was probably 

 the same individual seen by myself on June 13, when becalmed in a fog 

 off the eastern side of the same island, on which occasion it circled over- 

 head like a Gull for some time while calmly inspecting the boat, and then 

 moved off northwards. — William Palmer, Washington, D. C. 



The Capture of Basilinna leucotis in Southern Arizona. — While 

 collecting in the high Chiricahua Mountains, in southern Arizona during 

 the past summer, the writer had the pleasure of securing a specimen of 

 Basilinna leucotis, a new bird to the United States. 



During the early part of June a camp was made at Fly Park, a well 

 wooded area southeast of the head of Pinery Canon, at an altitude of 

 about 10,000 feet. A boreal honeysuckle (Eouicera involucrata) grows 



