Vol. XIX' 

 1902 .. 



General Notes. 20Q 



his identity. He was undoubtedly wintering where I saw him in the 

 sheltered scrub-pine wood. The afternoon that I saw him there were 

 several inches of snow on the ground and the thermometer was way below 

 freezing. — D. Leet Oliver, Concord, N. H. 



The Carolina Wren at Lake Forest, Illinois. — On the morning of 

 August 13, 1900, 1 was awakened at five o'clock by the loud, ringing 

 whistle of this bird {Thryothorus Itidovicianus) just outside my windoAV. 

 It is a curious fact that the songs of our familiar birds do not rouse me 

 when I am asleep but a strange voice will waken me at once. The Caro- 

 lina Wren Ihad known well in the Southern States, but never here in Lake 

 Forest, on Lake Michigan, thirty miles north of Chicago. 



From August to October lol had heard his loud, scolding, cack, cack, and 

 his whistled chee-o-kee chee-o-kee rhee-o-kee at intervals, but did not see the 

 bird till that day, when I had a fine view of him. I heard him up to October 

 13 that year. June 27, 1901, he was here again, or perhaps it was another, 

 but I think it was the same one. August 9 my notes say : "He has been 

 here at frequent intervals since June 27, and several times I have seen two 

 birds." Whether they were a pair or not I do not know. November 24 

 he was whistling again, and this morning December 17, his scolding note 

 was heard just outside my door, where he was sitting on our woodbine, 

 jerking his tail, and scolding at the bitter cold with his usual animation. 

 At times, however, he would sit on his feet to keep them warm, for it 

 was only i" above zero, and it had been — 13° two days before. He staved 

 on the woodbine about ten minutes, and seemed to be stripping a little 

 bark off of it to eat. There were no berries where he was. It looks as if he 

 were going to winter here and next summer I shall be on the w'atch for a 

 nest. — Ellen Drummond Far well, Lake Forest, III. 



Eastern Bluebird at Cheyenne, Wyo. — I was greatly surprised at early 

 dawn on Nov. 14 last, to hear the well-known notes of the Eastern Blue- 

 bird (Sialia stalls) which I had neither seen nor heard for many years. 

 I discovered the author of them sitting upon the electric light wire not 

 more than twenty feet from my house. The bird proved to be a male in 

 tvpical winter plumage. On Nov. 24, ten days later, I secured another 

 male. Both of these birds had been eating the blue berries of the wood- 

 bine which covers the front of my home. These two specimens are the 

 first actual captures of the bird by me in Wyoming, and may be the first 

 records for the State. — ^ Frank Bond, Cheyenne, Wyo. 



Michigan Bird Notes, 1901. — Pandion haliaetus carolinensis. Ameri- 

 can OspREY. — On Sept. 18, 1901, I received in the flesh a female, young- 

 of-the-vear, of this species. It was shot by Mr. Edwin Avery at Water- 

 ford, Oakland County. Although a common bird in certain parts of 

 Michigan, this is, I believe, the first record for Oakland County. 



