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General Notes. 
Supplementary List of Birds of the Island of Santa Lucia, 
W. I. — A few months since I gave in this Bulletin (Vol. V, pp. 163-169) a 
list of the birds of Santa Lucia, numbering 56 species. Recently the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology has received another considerable lot, 
collected, as were the previous sendings, by Mr. John Semper. This 
last collection adds 12 species to the number previously recorded from the 
island, besides embracing quite large suites of the rarer species, including, 
among others, 10 examples of Chrysotis bouqueti and 8 of Mr. Lawrence’s 
recently described Chcetura dominicana . The additions to the previously 
published list are the following: 
1. Siurus naevius ( Bodd .). 
2. Chcetura dominicana, Lawr. 
3. Pandion haliaetus (Linn.) 
4. Porzana Carolina (Linn.). 
5. Symphemia semipalmata (Gm.). 
6. Numenius hudsonicus, Lath. 
7. Querquedula discors (Linn.). 
8. Fulix affinis (Eyt.). 
9. Chroicocephalus atri cilia (Linn.). 
10. Sterna anglica. Mont. 
11. Sterna fuliginosa. Gm. 
12. Anous stolidus (Linn.). 
The collection also embraces Tringa fuscicollis , one of the two species 
previously given on Dr. Sclater’s authority. — J. A. Allen, Cambridge , 
Mass. 
Winter Birds of Fort Walla Walla, W. T. — Recent letters from 
Captain Charles Bendire, U. S. A., now at Fort Walla Walla, contain 
notes of interest on various species of birds observed during the past 
winter at that post, which I have his permission to make public. 
While Fort Walla Walla corresponds in latitude (about 46° N.) with 
Northern Maine, its winter bird fauna seems to be comparable with 
that of Southern New Jersey. Captain Bendire enumerates as among the 
regular winter residents such species as the Meadow Lark (Sturnella 
magna neglecta) , the Red-shafted Flicker (Colaptes auratus mexicanus ), 
Brewer's Blackbird (Scolecopkagiis cyanocephalus) , the Western Red- 
wing (Agelceus phoeniceus gubernator), the Western White-crowned Spar- 
row (Zonotrichia leucophrys intermedia) , the Oregon Snowbird (Junco 
oregonus), the Cinereous Song Sparrow (Melospiza fasciata guttata) , etc., 
besides other species less distinctively southern in character. 
Captain Bendire also refers to the capture of a Snowy Owl (Nyctea 
nivea) about December 1 (1880), which, he says, is the only “instance of 
its capture on this coast south of Alaska” known to him. He has also 
taken several examples of Scops asio kennicotti , and finds “ ZEsalon suck- 
ley i and richardsoni ” of not uncommon occurrence.. In alluding to the 
predominance of the females, he says that out of ten specimens of these 
two forms taken only one proved on dissection to be a male. He also 
notes a similar prevalence of females among the Sharp-tailed Grouse. — 
J. A. Allen, Cambridge , Mass. 
