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Tringa bairdii on Long Island Sound.—A female 7rznga batrdiz was 
shot at Stratford, Connecticut, November 3, 1888, by Mr. J. H. Averill ot 
Bridgeport, who kindly presented it to me. It was on a salt meadow in 
company with four 7réxga maculata. Waving no specimens for compari- 
son I sent the skin to Dr. C. H. Merriam, Dept. of Agriculture, who 
identified it as above.—C. K. AverILt, Jr., Bridgeport, Connecticut. 
Note on the First Plumage of Colinus ridgwayi.—Mr. Herbert Brown 
of Tucson, Arizona, has kindly sent me for examination a specimen of 
Colinus ridgwayi, a young male, still partly in the first plumage. It was 
taken Oct. 10, 1888, near Tubal, seventy miles south of Tucson. The 
top of the head is blackish, with each feather narrowly bordered with 
ashy brown. The hind neck, sides of the neck, and jugulum are yellow- 
ish white, with each feather barred at the tip with black. The scapulars 
are brownish, each feather with a rather broad whitish shaft stripe, and 
barred with yellowish white and black, and the wing coverts have much 
the same pattern, but the barring is pale cinnamon and brown. The throat 
is pure white, with new black feathers appearing irregularly along the 
sides of the chin and upper throat. Breast pale brown, with light 
shaft stripes and faintly barred with blackish, passing into brownish 
white with more distinct bars on the upper abdomen. The new feathers 
along the sides of the breast and flanks are chestnut, tipped with a spot 
of clear white, which is bordered behind with a more or less V-shaped bar 
of deep black. The broad yellowish white superciliary stripes extend to 
the nostrils. On the whole the first plumage of C. r¢dgwayz much re- 
sembles that of C. virgtntanus texensts, but the ground color above is 
darker, and the bars on the jugulum are stronger and better defined, and 
the ground color more whitish.—J. A. ALLEN, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., New 
York City. 
Another Saw-whet Owl (Wyctala acadica) in the District of Columbia. 
—Mr. J. D. Figgins shot a male Saw-whet Owl at Capitol View Park, a 
short distance from Washington. on March 12, 1889. When discovered it 
was feeding on a Junco, and was surrounded byan angry lot of small 
birds. 
Three other specimens of this species have been taken here, as follows: 
A female was taken at Washington by C. Drexler, Feb. 12, 1859, and pre- 
sented to the National Museum (No. 12,044). Dr. Fisher called my atten- 
tion toa description of this specimen in ‘History of North American 
Birds,’ Vol. III, p. 43. The Museum number was given as 120,044 but was 
a misprint for 12,044. A female Saw-whet Owl was captured in this city 
on November 1, 1878, and presented to the National Museum (No. 97,987) 
by Mr. Henry Marshall. Another was taken early in October, 1886, and 
recorded in ‘The Auk,’ Voi. IV, p. 161, by Mr. F. S. Webster.—CHARLES 
W. RICHMOND, Washington, D. C. 
A Fishing Screech Owl.—I secured a Screech Owl Feb. 2, 1889, which 
