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 May, 1915 A SUMMER AT FLATHEAD LAKE, MONTANA 115 fall migrants on the lake. The latter specie 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. H. K. Coale (Auk, xxxl, 1915, p. 87.) There seem to be no published records of the Great Gray Owl (Scotiaptex nebulosa 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 (J.nco hyemalis connectens), but the A. O. 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. I 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 ,VITH ONE PHOTO (Contribution from the Museum of History, Science and Art) 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 (Sp.atula clypeata) and one of the species of Querquednla, 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.