70 General Notes. [ January 
Note on A®gialitis meloda circumcincta.—In looking over the back 
numbers of ‘The Auk’ which have accumulated on my desk during my 
late long absence from America, I find a notice* of the occurrence of 
Ee gialit’s meloda ctrcumcincta on the Atlantic coast, by Mr. J. A. Allen. 
Amongst other examples of this variety, Mr. Allen writes that he has 
examined ‘‘two skins of typical czrcumctncfa” taken by myself in Scarbo- 
rough, Maine. 
It is proper for me to state that I had never made mention of these 
examples, for the reason that I doubted the validity of the so-called 
‘inland form.’ The evidence of such Maine birds as have fallen into my 
hands is certainly against it. I cannot remember that I have ever seen 
more than three specimens, taken on the coast of Maine, in which the 
neck band was wholly interrupted in front; and while the band, when 
complete, is not always so broad as in the skins examined by Mr. Allen, it is 
often so. The two forms distinctly intergrade in Maine. According to 
Mr. Allen,t they come very near intergradation in New Jersey. One 
cannot help believing, from the numerous instances, published and unpub- 
lished, of the occurrence of czrcumczncta on the Atlantic coast, that the 
same thing may be true of other localities. All this, of course, is not 
enough to deprive the belted bird of its name; but it is perhaps enough to 
render itsright toa separate name doubtful.—NaTHAN CLIFFORD BROwN, 
Portland, Maine. 
The Turkey Buzzard in Massachusetts.—Thursday morning, Sept. 
9g, 1888, a farmer in West Falmouth, Mass., shot in his barnyard a 
fine specimen of the Turkey Buzzard (Cathartes aura). I happened to 
to be in the town when the bird was shot, and secured it. It is a female 
in very good plumage. The bird was seen by several persons about the 
town before it was shot, and from them I learned that it came from the 
north. It had evidently not eaten much recently.—Epwarp C. MAson, 
Arlington, Mass. 
Krider’s Hawk (Buteo borealis kridertz) on the Coast of Georgia.— Mr. 
W. W. Worthington has just sent me a perfectly typical specimen of Kri- 
der’s Hawk, which he took on Sapelo Island, Georgia, February 16, 1888. 
The bird is a young or, at least, immature male. IfI am not mistaken, 
this subspecies has not been found before in any of the Atlantic States.— 
WILLIAM BREWSTER, Cambridge, Mass. 
First description of the Egg of Glaucidium phalenoides, Ferruginous 
Pygmy Owl.—On May 2, 1888, my collector took an adult female and one 
egg of this Owl at Cafion del Caballeros, near Victoria, Tamaulipas, 
Mexico. The locality is high and at the base of the more precipitous 
mountains. The nest was in a hollow tree, and contained but a single 
fresh egg. The egg is white, shaped like that of a Megascops, measures 
*Vol. III. p. 482. 
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