General JVo/es. 



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chickens. It was so tame he thought he could have easily killed it with a 

 club. The bird was thin, and from the appearance of its digestive organs 



it had fasted a long time. — .\. H. Wood, Painted Post, Steuben Co., 



IV. 7'. 



Megascops asio floridanus in Louisiana. — While in New Orleans, in 

 June, iSS6, Mr. Gustave Kohn kindly gave uie a number of birds and rep- 

 tiles from his collection. Among them was a Florida Screech Owl {Meg- 

 ascops asio fioridanns), several specimens of which he had secured in the 

 vicinity of New Orleans. I believe this bird has not before been recorded 

 from Louisiana. — A. K. Fisher, M. D., Washington, D. C. 



Ceophloeus pileatus in Franklin County. Massachusetts. — During the 

 month of August, [886. two Pileated Woodpeckers were shot at Ashfield, 

 Franklin Co., Mass. ; and on October 7 of the same year a third, which 

 I have, was shot. It is a male, but in not very good plumage, as it was 

 moulting at the time it was shot. — Richard Norton, Cambridge. Mass. 



Breeding of the Prairie Horned Lark in Eastern New York — A Correc- 

 tion.— In the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. Vol. VI, p. 177, 

 I noted the capture, in April, 1881, of two young Horned Laiks, just able 

 to fly, and two adults, male and female, at Green Island, N. Y. , and called 

 them, specifically, '■ EremopJiila alpestris" — not knowing their proper race 

 name. 



Mr. William Brewster lately saw the mounted skins of these birds and 

 informed me that they are of the variety Otocoris alpestris praticola, 

 described and named, in 1S84, by Mr. H. W. Henshaw, in 'The Auk,' V'ol. 

 I, pp. 254-268. 



I have given very little attention to the Horned Larks of this vicinity, 

 but know of specimens of the ys.\-\ety praticola taken within five miles of 

 Troy, N. Y., February 22, 1883, and in March and October, 1887. -A- larger 

 and darker colored variety, probably alpestris proper, visits this localitv 

 in winter; and I have a specimen of that race captured here about April 

 25. 1S45.— Austin F. Park, Troy. N. 7'. 



The Prairie Horned Lark {Otocoris alpestris praticola) on the Coast of 

 Massachusetts. — Looking over a large series of Horned Larks in niv 

 collection I lately found a pair of perfectly typical O. a. praticola 

 labelled "Revere Beach, Massachusetts, February 28. 18S3." Under this 

 date my journal has the following entry : "I shot these birds [Nos. 7925, 

 7926] with another, a female similar to No. 7926, near the beach in a field 

 where the ground was partly bare of snow. There were only three of 

 them in all. The testes of the male were of large size but the ovaries of the 

 females not correspondingly developed." 



The female "similar to No. 7926" was badly shot, if I remember right, 

 and not suspecting at the time (fully a year, it should be noted, before the 

 appearance of Mr. Henshaw's admirable paper on the genus Otocoris) that 

 it was anything more than a small dark specimen of O. alpestris, I doubt- 



