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an excellent opportunity of examining it, while at the same time it had 

 the opportunity of examining us, which it did thoroughly. 



It walked to and fro in a semicircle, with its head over its shoulder on 

 the side toward the party, betraying not the slightest sign of fear, but on 

 the contrary, the liveliest curiosity. We had never before seen a bird 

 just like it, though some of us had shot a number of Ruffed Grouse, which 

 are found in the dunes, and also Prairie Chickens. 



It looked like a cross between these two species, plus a dash of Plymouth 

 Rock stock. It was larger than either of the above-mentioned Grouse, 

 resembling perfectly in shape and color, the picture of the Sharp-tailed 

 Grouse in the ' National Geographic Magazine ' for August, 1915. 



We could see the preponderance of the ochraceous rusty-brown color 

 with pale and dark bars and patches, giving somewhat the appearance of a 

 young Plymouth Rock cockerel. We could see the feathers on the legs, 

 coming down to the base of the toes, and also the projecting feathers in 

 the middle of the tail. 



After the bird had watched us sufficiently, it suddenly sprang up with- 

 out the slightest noise, and soared away, first circling over Lake Michigan 

 for some distance and then returning past us to the big woods to the south- 

 east. 



Since then this bird or a similar one has been seen by members of the 

 Prairie Club in the big woods near the same spot, especially by Capt. 

 Charles Robinson, A. Leonard and John Leegwater. Mr. Leegwater 

 has had a better opportunity to study it than any one else, as he almost 

 stepped on it in the swamp near the big woods, a few months later. 



It did not fly off right away, but acted as if it had little ones, trying to 

 draw him away, by pretending to be hurt. This was in September which 

 seemed too late for young ones. 



As I found no Indiana records, I was a little doubtful until I made inqui- 

 ries. Butler in his ' Indiana Birds/ said that it might be found there. 

 Mr. M. F. Green of Tremont, Indiana, an old resident, said he had occa- 

 sionally seen and shot them since boyhood. Mr. Brown of Tamarack, 

 the care-taker of the great Wells estate of 2200 acres of dunes, says he 

 has also occasionally shot them, and that they breed in the dunes. Both 

 of these settlers considered them a curious kind of Partridge, or Ruffed 

 Grouse, of which there are a number in the dunes. Dr. J. Barrett, the 

 State Geologist of Indiana, states that it has never before been recorded 

 as a resident of Indiana. — George A. Brennan, Chicago, III. 



The White- winged Dove (Melopelia asiatica asiatica) in Georgia. — 



On January 6, 1917, Mr. Harrison Lee, while out shooting Mourning Doves 

 near his home three miles south of Hoboken, Pierce County, Georgia, 

 observed a White-winged Dove perching in a little bush in an open field. 

 Thence it flew to a fence-post, where it was shot. Mr. Lee left the specimen 

 on a shelf in his house overnight, with the intention of having it preserved, 

 but on the following morning it was found badly damaged by mice. 



