134 Durcuer, Bird Notes from Long Island, N. Y. [April 
hat it was different from a common Black Duck until I picked it up, so I 
cannot tell whether the remainder of the flock were similar to it or not.” 
Mr. F. M. Chapman has kindly prepared the following description of this 
hybrid for record. ‘‘In the male hybrid between doschas and obscura 
there is, on the whole, a fairly equal division of the characters of both 
parents; the crown, hind-neck, and nape areas in boschas; the sides of 
the head, the throat, and neck resemble more those of odscura, but there 
is a wash of green on the first named region, and the chin is blackish. 
The lesser and median wing-coverts and tertials are similar to those of 
boschas, while the speculum is that of obscura, with the terminal border 
of white more as in doschas. The upper and lower tail-coverts resemble 
those of doschas, but the tail differs very slightly from that of obscura. 
Below the ground work is nearly as in odscuwra, but there is a suffusion of 
chestnut over the entire breast.” 
5. Histrionicus histrionicus. HARLEQuIN DucK.—Since my previous 
records* of this species, one other specimen has come to my notice. Dr. 
Wm. M. Smith, Health Officer of the Port of New York, has in his pos 
session a mounted specimen which was shot during the winter of 1887-88, 
in the vicinity of Swinburne Island, Lower Bay, New York Harbor, by 
one of the hospital employees stationed there. It was alone when secured. 
6. Crymophilus fulicarius. ReED PHALAROPE.—Capt. Scott, early in 
September, 1886, found on the beach at Montauk a specimen of this species, 
dead. The skin was sent to me for identification with the statement that, 
‘‘The bird is rare here.” No other records were obtained until October 
22, 1888, when Mr. William L. Baker, one of the crew of the Ditch Plain 
Life Saving Station, near Montauk Point, sent to me, in the flesh, a male 
Northern Phalarope, and a female Red Phalarope, with the follow- 
ing very interesting letter: ‘‘October 22, Montauk, Long Island. You will 
find enclosed two birds which I killed while they were feeding in the surf 
abreast of this station. I wish to know what they are, as I have never 
seen any like them before. They came here about ten daysago. They 
are the most graceful little fellows on the water that I ever saw, and they 
seem to be experienced surfmen, for the surf seems to be their home 
altogether.” Subsequently he wrote: ‘‘There were four of them, two large 
and two small ones. Both of the latter and one of the former were killed. 
The fourth one remained about an hourand then disappeared. There 
are men who have been at this station for the past twelve years; I have 
been here nine years, and we do not remember seeing any such birds on 
Montauk before.” Mr. Giraud remarks of them: ‘‘This is another species 
with which our acquaintance is very limited. The specimen now before 
me was shot on the beach at ‘Quogue,’ and I have seen a few others that 
were procured in that vicinity.”’+ 
7. Phalaropus lobatus. NortHERN PHALAROPE.—Since my last record 
of this species in May, 1884,} 1 have obtained a number of records and 
* Auk, Vol. III, p. 434. 
+Birds of Long Island, p. 245. 
tAuk, Vol. III, p. 436. 
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