=Triorchis lagopus lagopus= (Brünnich). =Triorchis lagopus sanctijohannis= (Gmelin). HARRY C. OBERHOLSER, _Washington, D. C._
=Harris’s Hawk= (_Parabuteo unicinctus harrisi_) =in Kansas=.—A fine specimen of a female Harris’s Hawk was killed seven and one half miles southwest of Lawrence, Kansas, December 25, 1918, by Fred Hastie and is now in the skin collection of the University of Kansas Museum.
So far as I know this Hawk has not been reported before from the state. —C. D. BUNKER, _Lawrence, Kansas_.
=The Proper Name for the Texas Barred Owl.=—Some time ago (‘The Auk,’ XXV, No. 3, July, 1908, page 316) Mr. Outram Bangs renamed his _Syrnium nebulosum helveolum_ (Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, I, March 31, 1899, page 31) because, when transferred to the genus _Strix_, it was supposedly preoccupied by _Strix helvola_ Lichtenstein (Verz. Samml. Säugeth. und Vögeln Kaffernlande, 1842, page 11). Since, however, both _helveola_ and _helvola_ are classical Latin adjectives differing in the possession of an additional syllable, they are to be regarded as different words, and therefore by neither the International Code of Nomenclature nor the A. O. U. Code would they conflict when employed in the same genus. It thus becomes necessary to return to the earlier name for the Texas Barred Owl, and it will consequently stand as _Strix varia helveola_ (Bangs).—HARRY C. OBERHOLSER, _Washington, D. C._
=Concerning a Note of the Long-eared Owl= (_Asio wilsonianus_).—I was interested in the note of Mr. G. Clyde Fisher in the last number of ‘The Auk,’ with similar heading to the above. I can furnish information which will help to verify the conclusions which Mr. Fisher reached as to the source of the sound he heard. On August 9, 1914, while camped near Red Eagle Lake, in the Glacier National Park, I heard a sound of some night bird, which was very similar to the sound described by Mr. Fisher, and for which I could give no better description than the phrase he uses, I tried to investigate the source of the sound, and soon found several owls, at least four being seen at once. It was moonlight at the time. The country consisted of a mountain meadow, dotted with clumps of fir trees, and the Owls were easily seen as they flew from one clump to another at my approach. I followed, and soon got a good view of one silhouetted against the sky, as it sat in the top of a fir. The bird was evidently watching my approach, and its ear tufts could be plainly seen. From their position, rising from the center of the head, rather than the sides, as well as from the size of the bird, I felt sure that it was a Long-eared Owl. I believe that the birds were a family containing both adults and young, and that they had been attracted by the light of our camp fire. This is the third time that I have known these Owls to be attracted by the light of a camp fire in the mountains of Montana.—ARETAS A. SAUNDERS, _Norwalk, Conn._