56 The Wilson Bulletin — No. 70. 



Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo borealis, Gmelin). — Au adult male and 

 an adult female taken near the Loramie Reservoir, Shelby County, 

 Ohio, November 25, 1909. 



Shoet-eared Owl (Asio flammeus, Pontoppidan ) . — An adult fe- 

 male taken near Jackson Center, Ohio, December 4, 1909. An imma- 

 ture male taken near Sidney, Ohio, December 4, 1909. An adult 

 female taken near the Ix)ramie Reservoir, November 15, 1909. 



Barred Owl (Strix varia, Barton). — An adult female taken near 

 Maplewood, Ohio, December 6, 1909. Stomach contained a bat. 



The above data were collected by James W. Stuber, Taxidermist, 

 Sidney, Ohio. G. Clyde Fisher. 



An Unusual Flight of the Loon (Gavia irmner) in South- 

 eastern Pennsylvania — In the Wilson Bulletin for December, 

 1908, ]\rr. Frank L. Burns records the capture of two Loons near 

 Berwyn, Chester County, Pa., on November 14, 1908. The birds, it 

 seems, had become bewildered in au early snow storm and had 

 taken refuge in a small pond, where they met their fate. 



On November 25, 1909, a similar catastrophe occurred in the same 

 region, but of so much greater extent that some note of it seems 

 warranted. The following records have come to my notice ; ' 

 twelve birds in all from Delaware and Chester Counties. Two 

 Loons were shot and two others seen on two small ponds about a 

 mile south of Wayne, Delaware County, Pa. I shot one if these and 

 saw the other which had been killed by a farmer. Mr. Leonard 

 S. Pearson informs me that three more Loons were shot that day 

 on a group of ponds just north of the town. Two Loons were 

 brought to the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences shot at 

 Paoli, Chester County, Pa. One of them is now in the collection 

 of the Academy. Mr. Thomas H. Jackson reports the taking of two 

 of these birds at Lenape, Chester County, Pa., and Mfr. George S. 

 Morris tells me that one was seen on a pond near Westtown, Ches- 

 ter County, Pa., for nearly two weeks in the latter part of No- 

 vember. 



The storm which overtook this flight was of precisely the same 

 nature as that which overtook the birds the previous year. On 

 November 22, 1909, the wind was from the south with a velocity of 

 twenty-six miles an hour at 7 :50 p. m. The following day rain set 

 in at 10 a. m., continuing with one short interruption during the 

 rest of the day. At 1 :55 p. m. the wind shifted to the northeast, 

 reaching a velocity of thirty-four miles. On November 24 the rain 

 began again at 9:30 a. m., but turned to sleet and snow shortly 

 after midday and continued until daybreak of November 25. Dur- 

 ing the 24th the velocity of the wind varied from twenty-seven to 

 forty miles an hour, the direction being north-east. 



