iSSS.] General Notes. I I ■5 



Notice of the Presence of Quiscalus quiscula aeneus in Upper South 

 Carolina. — I have lately given some attention to the capture , of Crow 

 Blackbirds, having in view especially the discovery of subspecies (etieiis. 

 My efforts in this particular direction, however, were unsuccessful unti' 

 Nov. 5, 1S87, when I obtained a single male from a small flock near Ches- 

 ter C. H. Nov. 12, a second male was taken in the same locality from a 

 little band of half-a-dozen. On the 21st three additional males and four 

 females, together with two examples of the typical form, were secured 

 from an immeTise assemblage in the neighborhood of Chestnut Grove in 

 the northern part of Chester County. The continued recurrence of birds 

 chiefly peculiar to the West accentuates anew the necessity of a thorough 

 overhauling of the ornithology of this region. — Leverett M. Loomis, 

 Chester, S. C. 



Quiscalus quiscula aglaeus in Louisiana. — ^In the October, 1SS7, Auk 

 (p. 303) Mr. Beckham states that the Bronzed Grackle {^niscalus qitis' 

 cnla ceneiis) was the form found at Bayou Sara, Louisiana. In the Journa 

 of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, for July, 1881 (p. 150) Dr. 

 Langdon reports "a few specimens, evidently residents, shot for the pur- 

 pose of identification, prove to be of the purpureus form." In the early 

 summer of 1886, at New Orleans and vicinity, the Florida Grackle (^ui's- 

 caliis quiscula agliEUs) was the only one of the smaller Grackles which 1 

 secured or observed. With the exception of one Bronzed Grackle, taken 

 in winter, all the specimens in the collection of Mr. Gustave Kohn, were 

 of this form. From this it will be seen that the three varieties have been 

 found in Louisiana in the breeding season. Bayou Sara and Nevv Orleans 

 are about eighty miles apart, by air line, though more than twice that 

 distance following the course of the river. It will be interesting to discover 

 just where between these two points the three varieties meet. — A. K. 

 Fisher, M.D., Washiugton, D. C. 



B?eeding of the Evening Grosbeak {Coccothraustes vespertina) in the 

 White Mountains of Arizona. — In 'The Auk' (Vol. IV. No. 3, p. 

 2156, 257) I observed two notices of the occurrence of the Evening 

 Grosbeak ; one from Toronto, Canada, the other from Hickman, Kentucky. 

 In the latter case Mr. J. A. Allen is quoted as stating that "its occurrence 

 anywhere south of the Great Lakes is rare." It may, therefore, be of in- 

 terest to readers of "The Auk" to know of an instance of this bird having 

 bred as far southwest as the head-waters of the Little Colorado River in 

 the White Mountains of Ai-izona. 



On June 5, 18S4, while looking out for anything of ornithological inter- 

 est in a thickly wooded canon some fifteen miles west of the little town of 

 Springerville, Apache County, Arizona, my attention was attracted by a 

 bird which I did not know, flying oflfits nest in the top of a thick willow 

 bush. Having climbed up to the nest and ascertained that it contained 

 three eggs I returned to the ranch. Next day I visited the canon with my 

 shotgun, and finding that the number of eggs in the nest had not in- 



