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Wliile on llic subject of rare visitors tcj the Gulf of St. Lawrence I will 

 add that on the 13th and I4tli of Au£,aist, 18S3, I saw a Man-of-war Bird, 

 {Tuc/iypetes ttqnilus) outside of the Bay here. A few days later it was 

 again seen by Capt. Le Blanc of the 'Manicoriagan Light Ship.' thirty 

 miles west of Godbout. — Nai». A. Come.mi, Godbout, J^hcIhc. 



Oidemia perspicillata in Florida. — A male of this species was taken Jan 

 uary ^5, near Punta Rassa, at the southern entrance to Charlotte Harbor. 

 — Frank M. Ch.m-man, Ncxu York-, N. Y. 



An Addition to the List of North American Birds. — I have in my collec- 

 tion two specimens, taken in Texas, o( Hallus iot/otros/) is cdii/nnis Ridg., 

 heretofore only known in the West Indies. They are exactly like the type 

 kindly sent me by Mr. Ridgway, and are undoubtedly referable to this 

 form. A female was taken by Mr. Fred. Webster and myself at Galveston, 

 Feb. 28, 1S77, and a male was taken by my collector, Jno. M. I'riour, at 

 Corpus Christi, May 19, 1S87. — George B. Sennett, Am. Mas. Nat. 

 Hist. , Nerv York City. 



The Yellow Rail in Connecticut. — 1 am indebted to Mr. E. II. Austin of 

 Gaylordsviiie, Conn., for a specimen of the Yellow Rail {Pi>rz(iii(i iiovc- 

 boi-ucensis) found at that place on March 24. Mr. Austin writes in refer- 

 ence to it: "It was picked up in the morning at the side of the road near 

 the river by a boy who found it in an exhausted condition, and was taken 

 into the house where it revived enough to run about the room, but finally 

 died in the evening. The most singular point in my mind is that the Sat- 

 unlay it was found the thermometer stood at 10 , and Ihetlay before at 7°. 

 It was taken into the Post Office as a rare or unknown liird." 



It proved to be a male. I sent the contents of the gizzaid to the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, and Dr. A. K. Fisher says in a letter of the 3otli 

 inst. : "The seeds found in the gizzard of the Rail are as follows: one 

 grape seed, one grass seed {Paspuluiii), tvv(i sedges {Carcx). Probai)ly the 

 grape seed was taken in with gravel." 



Mr. Austin has recorded his discovery in -Forest ;uk1 Stream.' — C. K. 

 AvERiLL, Jr., Bridgeport., Conn. 



Notes on Melanerpes torquatus. — During the spiings of 18S5, 18S6, and 

 1887, I made constant observations upon the migration of birds at 

 Fort Wingate, New Mexico, but during those three years never so mucli 

 as observed anywhere in that region a specimen of Lewis's Woodpecker 

 {M. torquatus) ; nor, as lor that matter, at any other time during the 

 year. This spring (iSS8), however, my son noted a bird of this species 

 in a large pine tree close to the garrison buildings, and when I was 

 out next day (May 8), four other specimens were in sight at one time, 

 within two miles of the station. These, as usual, were extremely wary, 

 and I only succeeded in obtaining one fine adult female. 



Upon carefully plucking this bird. I found the pterylosis to be for the 



