General Notes 19 



Jays wintered up to January 26, but disappeared with the heavy 

 fall of snow. On February 10 they reappeared, and with them the 

 first Robin. I have noted no Crossbills, Redpolls, Pine Siskins or 

 Red-breasted Nuthatches this winter, while last winter Redpolls 

 were very numerous and Red-breasted Nuthatches were regularly 

 noted. 



I also wish to record the nesting of the Arkansas Kingbird and 

 Burrowing Owl on a farm near Wilber, Nebraska, during the sum- 

 mers of 1916 and 1917. 



L. O. HORSKY. 



Omaha, Nebraska. 



NOTES ON OHIO BIRDS. 

 The following records and observations of the last few years 

 seem worthy of publication: 



1. Larus argentatiis. 



A large specimen over the parsonage on February 22, 1917. 

 Very early date. 



2. Chen cceriilescens. 



A fine speciment of this species was wing-tipped about two miles 

 northeast of New Bremen on January 17, 1916, and brought in alive 

 to one of our veterinary surgeons, who has been keeping it ever 

 since on his premises. 



3. Catoptrophorus semipalmatus inornatiis. 



This species was observed for a long time on August 30, 1915, in 

 Shelby County, Ohio, three miles east of New Bremen. It stayed 

 at a small pool of water in a meadow. Not only was it closely ob- 

 served, but its call was noted during its flight several times. 



4. Astur atricapillus. 



A fine 5 of this very rare hawk, as far as Ohio is concerned, was 

 taken on November 8, 1917, at, exactly the same place where the 

 Blue Goose was shot In 1916. It is perhaps well to give a summary 

 of the published records of the taking of this hawk in Ohio. Dr. 

 Wheaton in 1880 mentions but two specimens taken in the state, 

 the first one of these records being rather hazy, the second one only 

 being indisputable, a single immature female, taken twenty miles 

 east of Cincinnati, in November, 1878. It is not stated whether 

 this bird was preserved or not. It is given on the authority of 

 Mr. Dury. Dr. Wheaton never met with it near Columbus. Daw- 

 son (Birds of Ohio, page 402) states that but one was shot at the 

 O. S. U. grounds at Columbus on March 13, 1901, but that it could 

 not be preserved. Lynds Jones, in Wilson Bulletin, December, 

 1909, page 192, states for the Cedar Point-Oberlin region that he 

 has never seen one there, but that there is one in the Oberlin Mu- 



