Vol. 33, pp. 181-186 December 30, 1920 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



GENERAL NOTES. 



RECORDS OF SEVERAL RARE BIRDS FROM NEAR WASH- 

 INGTON, D. C. 



Colymbus holboelli (Reinh.), Holboell's Grebe. A female was caught alive 

 January 20, 1920, in Prince George Co., Md., just beyond the District 

 Line by Mr. Lewis T. Miller. The specimen is now No. 256899, U. S. N. M. 



Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl), Wilson's Petrel. — A bird of this species 

 secured June 27, 1914, was said to have t>een blown into a boat near 

 Marshall Hall, Md., opposite Mt. Vernon. Mr. Edward S. Schmid, the 

 Washington Taxidermist, received the bird alive, and gave it to Mr. 

 Nelson R. Wood of the U. S. National Museum, who was able to keep it 

 alive for about a week. He reports that the bird was unable to fly, ate 

 only a little meat the first day or so, and was in poor condition. Now 

 No. 236614, U. S. N. M. 9 ? 



Phalaropus fulicarius (Linn.), Red Phalarope. — An apparently unre- 

 corded specimen of the Red Phalarope was received by the U. S. National 

 Museum in the flesh. The bird is a male, secured on October 4, 1897, at 

 White's Ferry, Potomac River, Montgomery Co., Md., by Edward Land- 

 voigt. Now No. 161924, U. S. N. M. 



Numenius americanus (Bechst.), Long-billed Curlew. — TheU. S. National 

 Museum has catalogued a 9 of this species (No. 12624), that was received 

 by the National Institute on April 11, 1842, and was secured by Mr. 

 William Walker on the Potomac River. This specimen was transferred 

 to the Smithsonian Institution from the Patent Office in 1858, and may 

 be the bird referred to by Prof. W. W. Cooke as "Once taken on the Poto- 

 mac River." (Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXI, 1908, p. 116.) 



Charadrius dominicus dominions (Miiller), Golden Plover. — A female 

 was secured on March 28, 1911, on Nanjemoy Creek, Md., by Mr. John 

 B. Peyton, No. 213276, U. S. N. M. 



Coragyps urubu (Vieill.), Black Vulture. — Mr. William Palmer of the 

 U. vS. National Museum informs me that in 1918 he observed three of 

 these birds. On August 5th he watched two that were circling over his 

 house at Georgetown. On August 15th he observed a juvenile bird at 

 Chesapeake Beach, Md. Dr. Paul Bartsch reported having recently seen 

 a Black Vulture near Washington, but I have not the exact date. (Proc. 



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