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GENERAL NOTES. 



Capture of Sabine's Gull in Wisconsin. — On Oct. 7, 1900, a local sports- 

 man brought me a fine specimen of Xema sabinii \\\\\z\\ he had killed that 

 morning from a boat in the center of Delavau Lake. The bird is a male, 

 young-of-lhe year, and was alone. — N. Hollister. Delavan, Wis. 



Snowy Heron in Alberta. — I have recently mounted a fine adult male 

 Snowy Heron (Ardeii caiididissiiud), shot on May 11, 1901, near Pincher 

 Creek, about 90 miles south of Calgary. The bird was in good condi- 

 tion, and is a very unusual record, I presume, for this localitv. 



Last fall I secured two fine specimens of Ross's Snow Goose {Chen 

 rosst); they appear to pass right thi-ough this district on their migrations. 

 — G. F. DiPPiE, Calgary, Alberta. 



A New Bird for the State of Ohio — Ardea caerulea. — On August i , 1901 , 

 I observed two birds of this species on the banks of the old arm of the 

 Scioto River, one of which I shot after an excitingchaseof about three hours. 

 It proved to be a young male of Ardea ccerulea (Little Blue Heron), being 

 pure white in color, but having the tips of the first seven quills of each 

 wing of a slate blue color. It had the following measurements: Extent, 

 93 cm.; wing, 25.5 cm.; tarsus, 9 cm. ; bill, 6.5 cm. ; tail, 11 cm.; length 

 without bill, 4S.2 cm. On August 3 another specimen, a young female, 

 was brought in to me by a man who wanted it mounted; it was shot on 

 Sunfish Creek, Pike Co., Ohio. A third specimen was also shot there, 

 while a fourth, also a young female, was brought to me on August 16, 

 shot on the banks of the Scioto River, while four more were seen at the 

 same time. Dr. Wheaton, writing in 1S82, states that the Ardea ccerulea 

 "probably occurs in the southern portion of the State, but had not been 

 positively identified within the State's limits." As I have not seen any- 

 thing else in print to prove the existence of this species in the Slate, I be- 

 lieve I am correct in heralding it as a new bird for the State. The number 

 of specimens — four shot (two in my collection, two mounted for other par- 

 ties) and four seen, making eight in all — is, under these circumstances, cer- 

 tainly remarkable, while the age of the birds, as also the time of the year, 

 would make it highly probable that they had been bred in the State. — 

 W. F. Henxixger, Waverly, Ohio. 



A Band-tailed Hawk's Nest — An Arizona Incident of Biographical 

 Interest. — In a small caiion in the western foothills of the Rincon 

 Mountains, about twent_\-one or twent_\-two miles east of Tucson, stands 

 a medium sized cottonwood tree in which hawks have nested for manv 

 years. The old stick pile on which so many generations of birds have 

 been raised has become quite bulky through its annual accretion. In 

 the spring of 1S86 I was told by parties coming in from the San Pedro 



