126 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



being probably attracted b}' a clump of willows aDcl the small artificial 

 lake in the court. 



143. Strix flammea pratincola, Bonaparte. — American Barn 

 Owl. — Mr. Shorten informs me of the capture of our third recorded 

 specimen of this species on April 14, 1880, at Foster's Landing, on the 

 Ohio river, 36 miles above Cincinnati. 



165. Haliaetus LEUCOCEPHALUS, Savlguy. — White-headed or Ameri- 

 can Eagle. — A skull of this bird exhumed during the excavations con- 

 ducted b}^ the Literary and Scientific Society of Madisonville, Ohio, in 

 an ancient cemeter}^ near that place, is a specimen of the earliest taxi- 

 dermy (as we now use the term), on record. It had been stuffed with 

 blue clay, and this clay as well as some of the bones of the skull, 

 showed distinctl}' the staining of verdigris, doubtless due to the oxi- 

 dation of a copper chain or band b}' which it had been suspended or 

 held in place. This skull was preserved in ashes along with 

 other relics of the former owner, and perhaps once decorated the breast 

 of some valiant brave or dusky maiden. 



166. (Rhinogryphus) Cathartes aura, Illiger — Turkey Buzzard. — 

 Two sets of the eggs of this species, well advanced in incubation, 

 taken b}^ Mr. Quick, at Brookville, Ind., May 14 a^d 15, 1879; and a 

 third set, fresh. May 22, 1880. The first set was found by the 

 side of a log on the ground; the second in a hollow sycamore snag, 

 six feet from the ground and forty feet from the onl}^ entrance 

 which was at the top of the snag; the third four feet from the ground 

 in a cavity in a red-oak tree. Their measurements are as follows: 

 2.90x1.95; 2.70x1.90.-2.95x1.95; 3.10x1.85.-2.75x1.94; 2.75x2.00. 



170. Meleagris (gallop avo) Americana, Cones. — Wild Turkey. — 

 The most satisfactory evidence yet adduced of the former occurrence 

 of this species here, is the finding of numerous specimens of its bones 

 during the excavations in the pre-historic cemetery near Madisonville. 

 These bones occurred in the circumscribed deposits of ashes, called 

 "ash pits," along with the bones of various other animals, several of 

 which, like the present species, have now become extinct in this 

 region; many of the bones were utilized in the manufacture of awls, 

 beads and other articles of utility or ornament. 



172. BoNASA umbellus, Stephens.---i^z;^e<:Z Grouse; Pheasant.— An 

 examination of the crop and gizzard of a Ruffed Grouse, taken b}^ the 

 writer, at Brookville, Ind., on May 10, 1879, revealed the following 

 articles of fare: In the crop were three large beetles (Phylloj^haga 

 hirsuta) entire, but slightly crushed; numerous green seed-pods of the 

 Bloodroot [Sanguinaria canadensis) ; and a large mass of the leaves of 



