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Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVII, 1914, p. 9.) On January 2, 1920, five birds 

 were seen by Mr. H. S. Barber at Plummer's Island, Md., among a number 

 of Turkey Vultures that were circling over a dead hog. 



Aquila chrysaetos (Linn.), Golden Eagle. — An unusually fine specimen 

 of the Golden Eagle was received in the flesh by the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum recently. The bird was secured by Mr. Brooke B. Gochnauer on 

 March 10, 1919, near Upperville, Fauquier Co., Virginia. Mr. Gochnauer 

 sent the bird to Mr. John A. Baker of Washington who presented it to 

 the National Museum. As the specimen had been drawn the sex could 

 not be determined, but it was an adult bird, probably a male. Mr. 

 George Marshall, who prepared the skin, tells me that he mounted an 

 adult bird, secured, as near as he could remember, in the spring of 1913 or 

 1914, at or near The Plains, Fauquier County, Va. The specimen had 

 considerable lamb's wool entangled in the talons. The name of the person 

 who shot the bird, and to whom he returned it was Beverly. Another 

 apparently unreported Golden Eagle was received by Mr. Albert E. Col- 

 burn, alive, in late December, 1899, or early January, 1900. Mr. J. H. 

 Riley, who examined the specimen at the time, thinks that it came from 

 the Peaks of Otter, Blue Ridge, in western Virginia. On February 5, 

 1896, two Golden Eagles were received by the National Zoological Park 

 from J. W. Pattison, Wytheville, Wythe Co., Va. One bird died August 

 6, 1896, and the other lived until October 7, 1904. Both specimens are 

 in the U. S. National Museum collection. There are also several other 

 unrecorded Golden Eagles in the U. S. N. M. collection from Virginia 

 and Maryland taken in the fifties and sixties. — B. H. Swales. 



COLOR OF SOFT PARTS IN ANHINGA ANHINGA. 



On February 25, 1919, I killed an adult male Anhinga in the lagoons 

 near West Lake, above Cape Sable at the southern end of Florida, in which 

 the coloration of the mouth and the space about the eye were so striking 

 and remarkable as to merit a description. Certainly no artist who had 

 not handled such birds in the flesh would have depicted these parts as 

 they appeared in life. The culmen of the bird in question was dusky, 

 and the rest of the bill yellowish brown, save for the base of the mandible 

 which was black. The outer surface of the gular sac was dull black. The 

 inside of the mouth was colored as follows; the premaxilla and the mandi- 

 bular rami were dull yellowish; the margins of the choanae were whitish, 

 and the rest of the inside of the mouth including the lining of the gular 

 pouch was solid black, forming a background that set off the lighter colors 

 in deep contrast. The iris was deep wine-red. The margin of the eyelids 

 all around was a very bright shade of blue, bordered narrowly by a band of 

 dull green, while the remainder of the lids was black. The lores and a 

 line above the eye were dull yellowish green, a color that extended around 

 posteriorly to a point below the posterior canthus. A blackish line ran 

 through the center of the loral region back to the eye. The space beneath 

 the eye, extending back to the posterior margin of the bare area, was dull 



