340 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 
cinnati. “I send, agreeably to your request, by this mail, my speci- 
men of Peucewa estivalis, the only one I have ever taken. It was cap- 
tured April 28, 1877, about five miles northeast of Bardstown, Nelson 
county, Ky., by myself. My attention was attracted by a succession of 
low and rather sweet notes, entirely unfamiliar to me, which after some 
little trouble I traced to this bird, sitting on a low limb of a small oak, 
just on the edge of a field. I have never seen or heard it again.”— 
C. W. Becxuam, Bardstown, Nelson county, Ky. 
On examining Mr. Beckham’s specimen, which he kindly sent to us 
for that purpose, we find it to correspond closely with Mr. Ridgway’s 
description of the geographical race named by him illinoisensis,* 
and hitherto only recorded from Alabama, Texas and Illinois. Mr. 
Beckham’s capture, therefore, is of much interest, as being the most 
eastern record of this form, and as considerably extending the known 
range of the genus ( Ep.) 
CARDINALIS VIRGINIANUS, Bonaparte.—Cardinal Grosbeak.—This 
species has been observed nesting as late as August (1881), at Glen- 
dale, Ohio, by Mr. J. B. Porter, the eggs hatching on the 20th and 22d 
of that month. 
EREMOPHILA ALPESTRIS, Boie.—Shore Lark.—Under date of July 9, 
1880, Mr. H. E. Chubb, of Cleveland, Ohio, writes that he found the 
Shore Lark breeding “ quite abundantly” at that locality. 
EmpipoNAX FLAVIVENTRIS, Baird. — Yellow-bellied Flycatcher.— — 
The probability that this species occasionally breeds here is suggested 
by the capture of a specimen at Madisonville, on May 28, 1879, at 
which time several nests of #. acadicus were observed to contain their 
full complement of eggs. 
CrRYLE ALCYON, Boie.— Belted King-jisher.—(See page 338. ) 
ALUCO FLAMMEUS AMERICANUS, Ridgway.—American Barn Owl.— 
Specimen taken near Circleville, Ohio, in the summer of 1874.— 
Howarp E. Jonzrs, M:D., Circleville, Ohio. 
Nyctea scanpiaca, Newton.—American Snowy Owl.—Mr. E. R. 
Quick’s cabinet contains a fine specimen taken near Brookville, Ind., 
in December, 1879. 
ARCHIBUTEO LAGOPUS SANCTIJOHANNES, Ridgway.—fough-legged, or 
Black Hawk.—Specimen taken at Glendale, Ohio, December 23, 1880; 
the second known from this vicinity.—J. B. Porter. 
CATHARISTA ATRATA, Less.— Black Vulture; Carrion Crow.—Two 
* Bulletin Nuttall Ornithological Club, vol.iv., p. 219. Ibid, vol. v., pp. 52 and 89. 
