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female; the shape of the bill, with the curving upper mandible and the angle at the 
gonys, together with the broad, light edgings of the feathers on the back, are distinctive 
of this species”. He mentions this specimen in his “North American Diving Birds”. 
This is the first record from Colorado for this bird. 
Larus californicus. It may be well at this time to correct the records of this gull 
credited to Colorado from the Carter collection. The specimen upon which one of the 
supposed occurrences was based (C. M. N. H. no. 7132), has been re-examined, and 
proves to be an immature Herring Gull (Larus argentatus). It was taken near Brecken- 
ridge, Colorado, April 28, 1884. All other large gulls from this collection are either this 
species or the Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis), and all efforts to locate any of the 
other supposed specimens of L. californicus have been unavailing. This species should 
be withdrawn from the state list. 
Icteria virens virens. An examination of a rather extensive series of Chats from 
eastern Colorado has revealed two undoubted examples of the eastern variety (C. M. N. 
H. nos. 2908, 4711). The first, an adult male, was taken at Holly, on the Arkansas River, 
within a few miles of the Kansas line, on May 24, 1913. The second, also an adult male, 
was secured on Dry Willow Creek, Yuma County, June 20, 1915. Others in the series are 
apparently intergrades, referable to either virens or longicauda, and it seems not im- 
probable that the two subspecies mingle freely in eastern Colorado and western Kansas. 
This is really a restoration of a subspecies to the Colorado list, as Baird, Brewer 
and Ridgway mention an example of virens from Colorado in their “History of North 
American Birds’, a chat having been taken by Thomas Say near the headwaters of the 
Arkansas River. It is presumed that this example of Jcteria was secured by Say when 
he accompanied Major Long’s expedition in 1823. Prof. W. W. Cooke was perfectly justi- 
fied in dropping the subspecies in 1909 (Auk, xxvi, p. 420), on the records as then 
known, but the bird is to be reinstated on the facts here stated. 
Toxostoma longirostre sennetti. Among the unusual occurrences reported from 
Colorado, few are of such exceptional interest as the specimen forming the record for 
this southern form. This bird (C. M. N. H. no. 2359) was taken at Barr, Colorado, in 
May, 1906. It is an adult female and was originally classified as Toxostoma rufum and 
as such passed unnoticed in the series of that species until a recent transfer of the col- 
lections. Then its characteristics and misidentification were brought to my attention. 
The specimen is typical in every respect, comparing perfectly with examples from 
southern Texas.—F. C. Lincotn, Colorado Museum of Natural History, Denver, Septem- 
ber 22, 1919. ¢ 
California Black Rail at San Bernardino, California——On August 3 of this year R. 
B. Herron, one of the oldest ornithologists in California, obtained a live specimen, an 
adult male, of the California Black Rail (Creciscus coturniculus). This fact I consider 
worth publishing, as, so far as I am able to ascertain, it is a new record from San Ber- 
nardino and, with one exception, a record for this portion of southern California. This 
bird was found in a half dazed condition by a little girl, the daughter of a neighbor 
of Mr. Herron in this city, and the child, thinking that it was a fledgling 
that had fallen from the nest, took it to Mr. Herron asking if he could not feed it until 
it became strong enough to care for itself. Mr. Herron kept the bird, but it died within 
the next twenty-four hours, when he made a skin of it, which later on he gave to me. 
The only other record known to me for this section is of a bird taken by Prof. L. Miller 
at Riverside, California, some time during the month of August, 1893. 
The bird obtained by Mr. Herron was in good condition except for a slight abra- 
sion on the head. We have concluded that it flew against an electric light or telephone 
wire while migrating and was so stunned by the blow that it fell to the ground.— 
EDWARD WALL, San Bernardino, California, August 16, 1919. 
A Second Record of the Buff-breasted Sandpiper in the State of Washington.— 
The Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis) is so scarce a bird on the Pacific 
coast as to make it seem advisable to publish records of all that we find. It therefore gives 
me pleasure to state that, when collecting on the Tacoma Flats on September 8, 1919, I was 
so fortunate as to secure two handsome males of this species. They were together 
