'18 The Wilson Rrr.LETiN— No. 66. 



FIELD NOTES. 



Tufted Titmouse. — The Tutted Titmouse is rare in Erie County, 

 Pa. Ttie first one I had ever seen in this county came December 26 

 to some suet a few feet from the house and ate freely. He was 

 very shy and nervous, and was only seen at long intervals, until one 

 morning he found a box of nuts. All fear vanished before such good 

 fortune and he flew to the windows, searching for a place to store 

 his booty. Failing to break in the house he tried to squeeze himself 

 through the lattice under the porch, but he was too fat. He comes 

 every day in company with two downy woodpeckers, two nuthatches, 

 and five or six chickadees. As the food is to be found in a number 

 of places on the bush, six or seven birds may often be seen feeding 

 at the same time. Flickers are reported feeding c '*uet two blocks 

 away. 



yortli East. Pa. Miss R. M. Leete. 



Golden Eagle (Aquila cltri/sactos). — -I have had the pleasure of 

 handling an innnature male of this species, secured on November 1?>, 

 1908, at Dublin Gap, near Newville, Cumberland County, Pennsyl- 

 vania, by Mr. Richard Dawson, a local sportsman. In this connection 

 I wish to correct an earlier local record, erroneously accredited to 

 the Bald Eagle {Haliwetus leucoceplialus) (Cf. Wilson Bulletin, 

 No. 18, Jan. '98, p. 4). Although it was captured within gun sound 

 of my home, April 7, 1894, I had no opportunity to examine it at the 

 time. It recovered from its wound and was kept for many years at 

 the Sorrel Horse tavern on the Old Lancaster road in Delaware 

 County, where Mr. W. L. Baily found it. (Cf. Abstract of the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, 1898, p. 4). 



Bcnryii. Pa. Frank L. Burns. 



LcoN (Garia -imher) in Pennsylvania. — I have to record the 

 third specimen and second female of the Loon (Gavia imber) from 

 the flock occurring in the Chester valley on November 14. 1908. It 

 liad dropped from the tlight, into Jeanes' mill dam, at)out a mile 

 above where the first pair met their death, as already related. Here 

 it tarried, lost and weakened. It seemed unable or unwilling to fly, 

 and some men about the place caught it in a scoop net, examined 

 and liberated it after receiving some bruises from its beak. It was 

 found dead on the 10th of December, greatly emaciated, stomach 

 empty, save a few rather coarse pebbles, and without a sign of a 

 wound. It undoubtedly starved to death, as this body of water is 

 [practically without life suitable for food, having been recently 

 cleaned after several car loads of quicklime had been accidentally 

 dumped in the stream above. It is doubtful if a single member of 

 this flock performed the flight successfully. 



Bmryii. Pa. • Frank L. Burns. 



