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Curiously enough on the 28th, Mr. G. H. Jenkins observed appar- 

 ently the .same European Widgeon in a flock of Baldpates about ten miles 

 farther north in the Yahara Marshes and also missed a .-hot. — A. W. 

 Schorgek, Madison, Wis. 



The European Widgeon in Massachusetts. — Messrs. Angell and 

 Cash, the well-known taxidermists of Providence, Rhode Island, have 

 kindly given me permission to report that an adult male European Widgeon 

 (Mareca penelope), recently skinned and mounted by them, was shot at 

 Chappaquiddick, Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts, October 6, 1917, by 

 Mr. Arthur R. Sharpe. The specimen has been identified by Mr. Arthur C. 

 Bent and Mr. John C. Sharpe, Jr. It would be interesting to know whether, 

 as would seem to be the case, this old world species visits our Atlantic 

 sea-board oftener now than formerly or is found there oftener merely 

 because competent field observers of bird life are so much more numerous 

 and omnipresent than they were thirty or forty years ago. — William 

 Brewster, Cambridge, Mass. 



Little Blue Heron in Pennsylvania. — I wish to record two Little Blue 

 Hersons, Florida coervlea, male and female, in the white plumage, August 

 11, 1908, taken on the Conodoguinet Creek opposite the city of Harrisburg, 

 Pa., for the Pennsylvania State Museum by Assistant Taxidermist W. J. 

 Durborrow. These two birds were found in company with a flock of 

 egrets. They were mounted and now form part of a group of Herons 

 in the Pennsylvania State Museum. — Boyd P. Rothrock, State Museum. 

 Harrisburg, Pa. 



Northern Phalarope (Lobipes lobatus) in Michigan. — Professor \\ . B. 

 Barrows has evidently overlooked an earlier record of the Northern Phala- 

 rope (Lobipes lobatus) in Michigan, when he states that two specimens 

 procured in Sanilac Co., on Oct. 4 and 28, 1911, "seem to establish the 

 bird properly in the Michigan List," (Auk, 1916, 336.) In 'The Auk,' 

 1913, p. Ill, I recorded a 9 taken in Lenawee Co., Sept, 14, 1899, by Dr. 

 C. M. Butler, No. 170517 U. S. National Museum, which seems to consti- 

 tute the first authentic record in the state. — B. H. Swales, Museum of 

 Zoology, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 



Sharp-tailed Grouse at Tremont, Indiana. — Although familiar 

 for many years with the Indiana dune region I never saw the Sharp-tailed 

 Grouse {Pediozcetes p. campeslris) there until April, 1915. 



A party of us were ascending Mt, Holden, a high dune about 200 feet 

 high, just west of the Beach House of our Prairie Club, at Tremont, when 

 I noticed some large tracks, like chicken tracks. We went quietly up the 

 dune, and at the top saw a large grouse-like bird. It was not the least 

 afraid of us, and allowed us to come about fifteen feet from it, giving us 



