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cit.v lot seven or eight American Goldtinches, but a search failed to 

 disclose a single dead bird of any other species, though Yellow 

 Warblers and English Sparrows at least are as abundant in the vi- 

 cinity as the Goldfinches. I coiild obtain no information as to dif- 

 ference in the shelter sought by the different species which wovdd 

 account for the partiality exhibited by the storm. 



Junius Henderson. Boulder, Colo. 



Golden Eagle (Afjiiila cliri/saetos) at Cadiz, Ohio. — Mr. J. Bing- 

 ham Bargar, who lives six miles south of Cadiz, wrote me recently 

 in regard to a Golden Eagle he once shot and later had mounted. 

 He writes : "It was first seen after a storm about December 1, 

 1887. We then saw it almost every day for a month. It lived on 

 wild game, and when game was scarce it would take chickens. It 

 finally killed a fine chicken, and I made an effort to trap it alive, 

 but it broke the trap and got away. I followed it and was able to 

 shoot it. It weighed fourteen pounds and twelve ounces, and meas- 

 ured seven feet, five and three-quarter inches from tip to tip of 

 wings." Harry B. McConnell. 



Concerning Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes mlgratorliifi). — In a 

 conversation once with Dr. Beal, of Scio College, who is the author 

 of the Beal Law, he told me that a guide he met while on a vacation 

 trip in northern Michigan in 1903, could possibly throw some light 

 on the mysterious disappearance of the Passenger Pigeon. The guide 

 claims that after a great storm a number of years ago, countless 

 numbers of Wild Pigeons were thrown upon the shore of the lake. 

 Delbert Burdett, a farmer, living near Cadiz, claims that while at 

 work cutting timber near St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio, in 

 September, 1898, a flock of "thousands of Wild Pigeons" suddenly 

 appeared, and in alighting covered a field several acres in extent. 

 A number of old farmers saw the flock and all agreed that the birds 

 were Wild Pigeons. Mr. Burdett is familiar with a large number of 

 birds and I questioned him rather closely as to the Pigeons, and have 

 reason to believe his story is cori'ect. 



Cadiz, Ohio. Harry B. McConnell. 



Notes from Cadiz. Ohio. — Holdoell's Grebe (Colymhiis hol- 

 hccllil). — On February G, 1905, some boys saw a strange bird fly 

 against the telephone wires and fall to the ground in an alley in 

 Cadiz, and as it was unable to continue its flight they picked it up 

 and brought it to me to identify. It proved to be a Holboell's Grebe, 

 the first and only record I have of this bird for the county. The 

 boys thought they might assist it to continue its journey by taking 

 it up to the top of the Court House and pitching it out into space, ex- 

 pecting to see it take wing and fly away. This they did, but the 



