328 Gemral Notes. \;^^^ 



Bartrajiiax Sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda. — This bird had been 

 deemed extinct in the County for some years. May 3, however, one bird 

 was taken by some trap shooters just outside the northern hmits of this 

 city. It rose from the grass where they were shooting and flew arovmd 

 the traps several times until one of the shooters dropped it. None others 

 were seen. 



American White Pelican, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos. — May 29, a 

 fine and seemingly adult bird of this species was killed near Strawberry 

 Island, St. Clair Flats, by Mr. Frank Meloche. As far as I w-as able to 

 find out it was the only one seen. 



I may add further that a Pine Siskin (Spinus pinus) was taken on May 

 19, 1908, on Grosse Isle, in the lower Detroit River. It was a male, with 

 poorly developed testes, showing no signs of immediate breeding. This 

 species has been reported from adjoining Ohio stations, and hypothetically 

 from Point Pelee, Ontario, at like seasons of the year, but this is the first 

 specimen taken, to my knowledge, in Wayne County. — P. A. Tavernek, 

 Highland Park, Mich. 



Wilson's Phalarope and White-rumped Sandpipers in Wayne Co., Mich. 

 — Wilson's Phalarope, Steyanopus tricolor. — May 9, 1908, I had the 

 pleasure of taking another Phalarope of this species in the same mud-hole 

 in Ecorse Twp., Wajme Co., Mich., in which my previous record was made 

 (Auk, XXIII, 1906, 335). It proved to be a female and was the only one 

 seen. 



White-rxjmped Sandpiper, Actodromas fuscicollis. — May 23, 1908, six 

 were obser\^ed and two taken by myself in the same locality as above. — 

 P. A. Taverner, Highland Park, Mich. 



Two Ontario Records. — Blue-winged Warbler, Helminthophila 

 pinus. September 2, 1906, I took a juvenile bird of indeterminate sex 

 from a grape \'ine tangle, near the end of Point Pelee, Ontario. This 

 forms, I believe, the primal record for the species in Canada. The next 

 day another bird, supposed to be the same, was shot but could not be 

 found in the thicket. 



Turkey Buzzard, Cathartes aura. — April 24, 1908, I received a bird 

 of this species in the flesh from Point Pelee, Ontario. It was perfectly 

 fresh and could not have been killed more than a couple of days. On 

 dissection it proved to be a female with ovaries considerably enlarged. 

 We have had reports of this bird's breeding near Harrow, about eighteen 

 miles west of the Point, and have seen birds on Point Pelee itself May 20, 

 1906 (Willson Bull., 1907, 91).— P. A. Taverner, Highland Park, Mich. 



