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Amazilia cerviniventris chalconota — A Correction. — The description 

 of this new race, in the January number of ' The Auk,' contains an error, 

 to which Dr. C. W. Richmond has kindly directed my attention. The type 

 locality should have been given as Brotvnsvtlle, Texas, instead of Beeville, 

 Texas. Then on page 32, second line of ' Habitat ' for Bee Coujity read 

 Corpus Christi l page 34, line 23, for four read three; line 25, same 

 page, insert a7id before Corpus Christi, and omit and Beeville, together 

 with all of the following sentence. An inadvertence may also be here 

 corrected : on page 34, line 28, for the State of, read ce7itral or southern ; 

 since the statement in its present condition is contradictory to what has 

 already been said on the previous page. — Harry C, Oijerholser, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Lewis's Woodpecker Storing Acorns. — An interesting account has 

 been furnished me by Mr. Manly Hardy of the storing of acorns by 

 Lewis's Woodpecker, Melanerpes torquatus. The substance of Mr. Har- 

 dy's communication is as follows : 



Sidney French, a i-elative of his, a lad of some sixteen years of age, 

 while paying a visit in November, 1897, to Happy Canon, about twenty 

 miles southeast of Denver, Colorado, amused himself by watching the 

 Woodpeckers. Seeing one enter a hole in a big cotton-wood tree, he 

 climbed up to see why it did so, when he found in the hole a lot of acorns. 

 He then examined several other holes in trees near by, the names of 

 which were not familiar to him, and found these, too, stored with acorns. 

 Some of the holes were half the length and about the diameter of his 

 finger, and contained five or six acorns each, tightly wedged in ; while 

 others, three inches across and extending downward for six or eight 

 inches, held much larger stores. It was evident that the birds brought 

 the acorns to the holes and shelled them there before storing them, for 

 the ground beneath was piled with the empty shells and the kernels that 

 were packed away were mostly in quarters, some of them, however, being 

 in halves. The acorns belonged to the scrub oak of that region and were 

 small and i-ather sweet. 



The boy's careful description of the birds indicated pretty clearly that 

 they were Lewis's Woodpecker but this important point was definitely 

 settled when he sent the head and some of the breast feathers of that 

 species to Mr. Hardy. 



Major Bendire in his 'Life Histories of North American Birds ' (Part 

 n, p. 119) says that Lewis's Woodpecker has been seen sticking mayflies 

 in'crevices of pines, but I can find no record of its storing acorns, while 

 the fact that the acorns were shelled lends additional interest to the story. 

 — William Brewster, Cambridge, Mass. 



Occurrence of Leconte's Sparrow (^Ammodramus lecotitii^ at Ithaca, 

 N, Y. — While searching the large marsh at the head of Cayuga Lake 



