94 General Notes, 



16. Junco cinereus var. dorsalis. Common in the high mountains. 

 July 16, I found a nest under a tuft of grass, which contained three eggs, 

 perfectly fresh. The eggs are, when blown, white, slightly tinged with 

 green, speckled sparsely all over, except at the smaller end, with small 

 brownish dots. They measure .58x.74, .62 x .76, and. 63x.77. I took 

 young birds of the year in the early part of July. 



17. Corvus americanus. I saw a flock of a dozen or so on the Rio 

 Mimbres in April, and killed one. These were the only ones I had seen 

 since leaving Kansas, except three seen in South Park in October, 1873, 

 one of which I killed. 



18. Myiarchus crinitus. I killed a male in the cottonwoods along 

 the Gila, New Mexico, June 12. 



.19. Scops asio var. maccalli. On April 19 I heard a screaming noise 

 proceeding from a Woodpeckei''s hole in a pine. I climbed the tree, and 

 pulled out a female McCall's Owl, and immediately after a male Sparrow- 

 Hawk flew out. The Owl was apparently breeding, but the hole con- 

 tained no eggs. 



20. Cyrtonyx massena. April 14 I nearly stepped on a pair of Mas- 

 senas, in a trail. I stopped, and was hesitating whether to put my hat 

 over them or step back and shoot them, when they settled the matter by 

 flying away, both my barrels missing fire. May 12, as I was riding 

 through the timber, I heard a Partridge fly up behind the horse. Look- 

 ing back, I saw that it was a female Massena. I stopped the horse, and, 

 without getting off, looked for the mate, and saw it lying flat in the grass 

 within eight inches of the track of the horse's hind foot. The female will 

 not lie as close as the male, but both lie so close that it is only by acci- 

 dent that they are ever seen. — F. Stevens. 



Capture op -^gialitis meloda var. circumcincta, Ridg., on Long 

 Island. — While collecting April 30, 1873, on the outer beach, near 

 Rockaway, Long Island, I shot several specimens of the Piping Plover. 

 One, an adult male, had the pectoral band complete across the jugulum, a 

 peculiarity I could not discover in any others. The band is unusually 

 broad, curving anteriorly somewhat, and is slightly enlarged in the mid- 

 dle toward the throat, giving it the outline of a top of a shield, whereas 

 in those specimens which have the markings on the neck nearly meeting, 

 the lines converge to a point in an hour-glass shape. The dimensions are, 

 6.77 X 14.25 X 4.65 ; tail, 2.10 ; bill, .55 ; tarsus, .90, male adult, agreeing in 

 the main with Mr. Ridgway's type (breeding plumage, male adult, July 8, 

 Loup Fork of the Platte, Am. Nat., VIII, 1874, 109) excepting length, 

 which he gives as 6^ inches, which is much below the average. The 

 same day I shot a female with just a faint line of dusky uniting the dark 

 patches of the neck, formed by the edgings only of two or three feathers, 

 all the way across. I doubt whether this should be regarded as the fe- 

 male of var. circumcincta, however. — C. H. Eagle. 



