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,go2 J General Notes. I^y 



The Wilson Plover in California. — Mr. A. M. Ingersoll of San Diego 

 has recently sent me a specimen of yEgtalitis xvilsonia taken by him at 

 Pacific Beach, San Diego County, June 29, 1894. The ciixumstances of 

 its capture were given by Mr. Ingersoll in a brief but interesting article in 

 the 'Nidiologist,' Vol. II, Feb., 1S95, p. 87. The skin, now before me, is 

 that of a male in worn nuptial plumage. The dorsal surface is particu- 

 larly worn and faded, the tertials and wing-coverts presenting a truly 

 thread-bare appearance. The measurements are : wing, 108 mm. ; tail,48; 

 culmen, 21.5 ; tarsus, 29.5 ; middle toe with claw, 23. As far as I know, 

 this specimen furnishes the only record of ^^gialitis ivihonia for Cali- 

 fornia. — Joseph Grinnell, /'rt/o ^//o, Call. 



The Yellow Rail {Porzatia ?ioz'eboracensis) in Wisconsin. — Between 

 October 6 and 13, 1901, four Yellow Rails were seen on different marshes 

 near Delavan, Wis., and one specimen was taken October 11. This bird 

 was captured by a pointer and brought to me alive by the dog's owner. It 

 proved to be a male and is an exceptionally beautiful individual. On 

 October 13 I flushed one myself at my feet and carefully marked it down on 

 the scantily grassed, dry marsh not four rods awaj^ but the efforts of two 

 men and two very good bird dogs were insufficient to start it again bv the 

 time the shells were changed in my gun, although it was not over a 

 minute before we were hunting him and worked diligently for nearly an 

 hour. — N. HoLLiSTER, Delavan, Wis. 



An Abnormal Specimen of the Bob-white {Colinus virginianus'). — 

 I shot near Mount Pleasant, S. C, on February 4, 1902, an adult male Bob- 

 white which has nearly the whole throat ochraceous-buff encircled with 

 white. Among the thousands of these birds T have killed, tliis specimen 

 is the first I have ever seen marked in this manner. — Arthur T. Wayne, 

 Mount Pleasant, S. C. 



o Buteo solitarius off the Coast of Hawaii. — My friend Mr. W. K.Andrews 

 was a recent passenger on a sailing ship from San Francisco to Hilo, and 

 he reports the following interesting occurrence. W'hen 400 miles off the 

 southern point of Hawaii, a hawk boarded the ship, and perched on the 

 top of the mizzen-mast. In a few moments it flew away, and presently 

 returned with a bird in its claws. Mr. Andrews is well acquainted with the 

 Hawaiian Hawk, but wishing to make sure of the identity of this particular 

 individual, he shot the bird. Unfortunately it fell dead just over the side 

 of the ship allowing, however, a good glimpse ere it was swept astern. 



Mr. Andrews considers his identification of the hawk certain, and is 

 pretty confident that the hawk's quarry was a plover, it being in plain 

 sight on the water as it drifted past. 



Readers of 'The Auk' may remember the report of a somewhat similar 

 case made by the writer in this Journal for April, 1891. That particular 



