May, 1915 
A SUMMER AT FLATHEAD LAKE, MONTANA 
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fall migrants on the lake. The latter species is new to the state. He possesses 
an excellent mounted specimen of the Trumpeter Swan ( Olor buccinator) , 
which occurs in this region, as recently recorded by Mr. IT. K. Coale {Auk, 
xxxii, 1915, p. 87.) There seem to be no published records of the Great Gray 
Owl {Scotiaptex ncbulosa nebulosa) from the state, but Mr. Stanford has a 
mounted bird and states that the species is not uncommon about Kalispell in 
winter and that he has seen it in summer. 
One change should be made in the subspecies of one of the birds breeding 
at Flathead Lake. A male Golden-crowned Kinglet, taken at Yellow Bay, June 
25, proves to be the western bird {'Regulus satrapa olivaceus) , as identified for 
me by Dr. L. B. Bishop. This is the first bird of this species that I have taken 
in the state during the breeding season, but its subspecies is the same as that 
of fall migrant birds taken in other parts of the state. 
I have questioned above the subspecies of Junco found here. Mr. Silloway 
listed it as the Shufeldt Junco {Junco hyemalis connectens) , but the A. 0. U. 
Check-List includes this region in the range of the Montana Junco {J . h. mon- 
tanus). The birds as seen in the field certainly look like the Shufeldt, but I 
have taken no specimens. 
1 have also questioned the subspecies of Orange-crowned Warbler, and 
believe that the subspecific identities of a number of other species should be 
questioned. Flathead Lake, in addition to being west of the continental divide, 
is in a much more humid region than any other part of Montana, being more 
like northern Idaho and northeastern Washington in this respect. I would 
not be surprised to find that the subspecies of many such birds as the Orange- 
crowned Warbler, Song Sparrow, Towhee, Chickadee, Horned Lark, and Red- 
winged Blackbird are not what they were first reportd to be, but are more like 
those of northern Idaho. 
West Haven, Connecticut, February 16, 1915. 
AN APPARENT HYBRID BETWEEN SPECIES OF THE GENERA 
SPATULA AND QUERQUEDULA 
By H. S. SWARTH 
WITH ONE PHOTO 
(Contribution from the Museum of History, Science and Art) 
T HE LOS ANGELES Museum of History, Science and Art has recently 
received as a gift a specimen of a duck presenting certain peculiar feat- 
ures. The bird was given to the Museum by Mr. A. E. Jackson, who shot 
it December 13, 1914, on the grounds of the Crescent Gun Club, near Del Rey. 
Los Angeles County, California. It was sent to the Museum in the flesh, and 
there made into a study skin. 
The general appearance of the bird is such as strongly to suggest the pos- 
sibility of its being a hybrid between the Shoveller {Spatula clypeata) and one 
of the species of Querquedula, the Cinnamon Teal {Q. cyanoptera ) or the Blue- 
winged Teal {Q. discors). It is a male, but in the mottled plumage of the im- 
mature, and is probably a bird of the previous spring. 
