I2o General Notes. 



Supplementary List of Birds of the Island of Santa Lucia. 

 W. I. — A few months since I gave in this Bulletin (Vol. V. pp. 163-169) a 

 list of the birds of Santa Lucia, numbering 56 species. Recently the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology has received another considerable lot. 

 collected, as were the previous sending*, by Mr. John Semper. This 

 last collection adds 12 species to the number previously recorded from the 

 island, besides embracing quite large suites of the rarer species, including, 

 among others, 10 examples of Chrysotis b ougu eti and 8 of Mr. Lawrence's 

 recently described Chcetura dominicana. The additions to the previously 

 published list are the following: 



1. Siurus naevius (Bodd.). 



2. Chaetura dominicana. La-wr. 



3. Pandion haliaetus {Linn.) 



4. Porzana Carolina {Linn. 1. 



5. Symphemia semipalmata ( Gm. ). 



6. Numenius hndsonicus. Lath. 



7. Querquednla discors Linn. . 



8. Fulix affinis (JByt. )■ 



<j. Chroicocephalus atricilla (Linn. 1. 



10. Sterna anglica. Mont. 



11. Sterna fuliginosa. Gm. 



12. Anous stolidns (Linn. |. 



The collection also embraces Tringa fuscicollis, one of the two species 

 previously given on Dr. Sclater's authority. — J. A. Allen. Cambridge. 

 Mass. 



Winter Birds of Fort Walla Walla, W. T. — Recent letters from 

 Captain Charles Bendire, V. S. A., now at Fort Walla Walla, contain 

 notes of interest on various species of birds observed during the past 

 winter at that post, which I have his permission to make public. 



While Fort Walla Walla corresponds in latitude (about 46° X.) with 

 Northern Maine, its winter bird fauna seems to be comparable with 

 that of Southern New Jersey. Captain Bendire enumerates as among the 

 regular winter residents such species as the Meadow Lark ( Sturnella 

 magna neglecta), the Red-shafted Flicker (Colap/es auratus mexicanus), 

 Brewer's Blackbird {Scolecop/iagus cyanocephalus), the Western Red- 

 wing (Ageleeus pneeniceus gubernator), the Western White-crowned Spar- 

 row (Zonotrickia leucopkrys intermedia) , the Oregon Snowbird {Juna> 

 oregonus), the Cinereous Song Sparrow ( Mclospiza fasciata guttata), etc.. 

 besides other species less distinctively southern in character. 



Captain Bendire also refers to the capture of a Snowy Owl (JVvctea 

 nivea) about December 1 (1880), which, he says, is the only '"instance of 

 its capture on this coast south of Alaska " known to him. He has also 

 taken several examples of Scops asio kennicotti, and finds " sEsalon suck- 

 leyi and richardsoni " of not uncommon occurrence. In alluding to the 

 predominance of the females, he says that out of ten specimens of these 

 two forms taken only one proved on dissection to be a male. He also 

 notes a similar prevalence of females among the Sharp-tailed Grouse. — 

 J. A. Allen, Cambridge. Mass. 



