iiosrox zo<»r.()cu('AL socu/rv. 9. 



gem-:ral notes. 



TUK RED FOX IN' KAXDOi.PK, MASS. Lfisf July, while I 



was Avalking in the I\aii(Iolj)]i woods. I noticed a red fox 

 (VULPE8 vrLGARis). \\ li '11 it perceived me it took Hight, 

 and soon disappeared. It is the first sj)ocinien of tliis spc( ies 

 I have ever observed nrar Boston, although it has been known 



to OCCnr. B. Hay ward. 



CARIBOU AT RANGELEY, ME. Numbeisof cari])on have 

 been s en in Eai^geley (Me) neighborhood hitely. One \va^ 

 ! hot near the Cnjjsiiptue Kiver a shoit time since. The horns 

 m( asi rjd some three feet apart, and branched ont Vv^onder- 

 fnlly i 1 many points. The meat weighed nearly four hi.nd- 

 red p'Jdiids. A S. 



LATE DATE FOR PARULA AM RICAXA, On Xovember 



19, 1881 I shot a Bine Velh w-baeked War! ler (parula am-, 

 ericana) on an ajjple tree near my house in Cambri Ige, it 

 was crawling j^bont the ti-nnk like the Brown (Jreei)er (cer- 



THIA FAMILIAins). rLH.SohJ. 



A NOTE ON TiiE w Hrp-1 ooR-wiLL. The fifteenth of 



last May, about dask, I observ^ed a specimen of the Whip-poor- 

 will (axtrostomus \ oci.ERL sj a.iglit up jn the dead limb 

 ( fan o dv tree. Afiei ren.aining- there for a few seconds, it 

 siretched itself ou: to itsfnll length, inffitd up the feathers ot 

 its xh'vk, and uttered its familial no.e. Occasionally it stop- 

 })e<l, and in a(juick and nervous manner d.u'ted. afier seme ins- 

 ect which it had det cted, caught itAvith a loud click of its bill 

 and returned to the brauclt wh cj it liad l^^ft. R. Haijiuard. 



OPHIB )Ll S TKlAN^.l l.l 8 TAKIN(r li. Fl iE UNDER AVATER. 



KiiXi\ in May whil- walking i r^iLUid iicard s Pond at Vv ; y- 

 hmi M.is.->., i oUsei veJ a .-m ill Checkered Adder (ophibolus 

 TRJAN(. DLL's) in aboiit one foot of water. I had some dili- 

 cLiltv in captir.nu" iu a- u swam jdoiio- near the b< t m. 



