General Notes. 53 



Blue-winged warbler. — One seen May 6, jaboiit a half mile east 

 of Rye Beach, in trees near the lake. 



On August 2], when I reached the beach about a 'half mile west 

 of town at 5 :30 a. m., there was a flight of swallows passing east 

 along the beach and extending in width from !half a mile out over 

 lake to a few rods inland. Most of them were flying low. Differ- 

 ent counts showed that about 9000 passed from the time I reached 

 there at 5 :.?0 until the flight abruptly ended at 6:15. They were 

 chiefly bank, with a fcattering of barn swallows. 



Dickcissel. — From two to isix individuals were seen at nearly 

 every large pasture or hay field in any direction from town. The 

 last singing was heard on July IG, and t!he last birds seen were 

 on August Ifi. 



In addition to the egret seen at Old Woman Creek, four miles 

 east of here, there were two more, or the same one, with a com- 

 panion, seen up the Huron River on July 30. They were up there 

 for about two week?", sometimes with great blue lierons, but more 

 frequently alone. The bright yellow bill, pure white plumage and 

 black, not dusky legs, make me think that they were of this 

 species. 



One curlew. Hudsonian or long-billed, was seen on August 3 on 

 the beach one mile west of town. 



A fliglit of night hawks was seen on September 1. There were 

 about twenty individuals circling about town. I had reports of a 

 large number around beach and over the lake west of town. A 

 few were seen for several days thereafter. 



A flock of Cape May warblers was observed around our house in 

 town from September 10 to September 19, and also one or two 

 were seen on several occasions in other places. 



One red-poll male was seen November 19 one and one-half miles 

 west of Huron on brush Iheap against lake bank. 



H. G. Morse. 



Notes from Sioux Falls, South Dakota ("Spring of 1911). On 

 May 14th I had the good fortune to find a Stilt Sandpiper (Micro- 

 palama himantopus) in a slough about eight miles south-west of 

 Sioux Falls. 



June 11th was given over to an all-day bird study. The start 

 was at 7 a. m. and the close S p. m. The study included woods along 

 Big Sioux River and Skunk Creek, fields, prairies, meadows and 

 a couple of small, nearly dried up sloughs. The sky was over- 

 cast most of fhe time, and an awful wind from the north-west w^is 



