iSSS.] DuTcHER on Long Island Birch. I 8 I 



■praticola. I should not be surprised, if in a few years the bird would be 

 a common breeder on Long Island." September 14, 1S87, the Messrs. 

 Hendrickson sent to me in the flesh a Horned Lark which, from its imma- 

 turity, Iiad evidently been bred on the Island, and consequently must be 

 fraticola. 



19. Calcarius lapponicus. Lapland Longspur. — One siiot at Long 

 Island City, Qiieens Co., January 11, 1SS6, by John Hendrickson, is the 

 only record I have secured since those noted in 'The Auk' of October. 

 1S86.* This specimen was in company with four Horned Larks. "It had 

 but one leg, the left one having been cut oft': the wound was entireiv 

 healed." Mr. Giraud considered this bird an extremely rare straggler. 

 "In the winter of 1S3S, several specimens of this bird were observed in 

 the New Yoi-k markets, having been shot on Long Island — but I am not 

 aware that this species has ever before or since been met with in our 

 section."! From my records made thus far I cannot consider individuals 

 of this species in the light of stragglers. Further observations, made on 

 the beaches and grassy plains, may prove them to be regular, but not 

 common, visitants, as in Massachusetts. J 



20. Zonotrichia leucophrys. White-crowned Sparrow. — Mr. Giraud 

 includes this bird in his list, but does not say specifically that he ever took 

 or even saw a specimen on Long Island. Inferentially he includes it, 

 but considers it rare "in the Middle States. "§ Mr. Geo. N. Lawrence, 

 gives it in his list, and I find in his collection, now in the American 

 Museum of Natural History, Central Park, New York City, two specimens 

 from Long Island. I have secured two specimens in the past nine years. 

 The first one of these has alreadj' been recorded. || The last one, an im- 

 mature male, I shot October 16, 1SS6, at Broadway, Qiieens Co. It was 

 first seen in a roadside thicket of catbriars (^Smilax rotundifoUa), but was 

 thought to be a White-throated Sparrow. After the lapse of half an hour 

 the thicket was again visited and the bird was found and secured. It was 

 alone. 



21. Piranga rubra. Summer Tanager.^ — Mr. Giraud docs not include 

 this species among the Long Island birds, nor does Mr. George N. Law- 

 rence include it in his catalogue.^ 



The former says, when speaking of the Scarlet Tanager (^Piranga ery- 

 thromelas) : "This species is the only one of the Genus that is found in 

 this vicinity.** The latter states, " I have seen it in the Magnolia Swamps 



* Auk, Vol. Ill, 1886, p. 440. 



t Birds of Long Island, 1844, p. 99. 



X See A Revised List of the Birds of Massachusetts. By J. A. Allen. lUill. Anier. 

 Mas. N. H., Vol. i, No. 7, July, 1886, p. 250. 



§ Birds of Long Island, p. 123. 



II Auk, Vol. I, 1884, p. 175. 



II Catalogue of Birds observed on New York, Long, and Stafcn Islands, and the ad- 

 jacent parts of New Jersey. Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist., VIII, p. 280, April, 1886. 



** Birds of Long Island, p. 136. 



