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Dec. 22, 1917, at Marshfield, Mass., a male Labrador Horned Owl was 

 taken by Mr. Wilbur Ewell. Mr. C. E. Shaw was at Marshfield on Dec. 

 26, 1917, and saw the recently taken specimen and was told by Mr. Wilbur 

 Ewell that he shot the bird the latter part of the week before (he thought 

 the 22nd), on Hen Island, near the edge of the salt marsh. I am indebted 

 to Mr. Shaw for giving me the specimen in the flesh with the data. On 

 dissection, the bird was not fat and there was nothing in the stomach. The 

 specimen was identified by Mr. William Brewster, Mr. Charles F. Batchel- 

 der and Mr. Outram Bangs, being compared with specimens in Mr. 

 Brewster's collection and later Mr. Bangs kindly compared the specimen 

 with those in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. — Charles R. Lamb, 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



Massachusetts Notes. — On May 7, 1917, Messrs. C. W. Welch and 

 Henry M. Murphy caught alive in Stoughton, Mass., an adult Greater 

 Snow Goose (Chen hyperboreus nivalis). The primaries of one wing were 

 gone, not cut. This specimen is now on exhibition at the Boston Society of 

 Natural History, through the generosity of its captors. 



On February 10, 1918, a Kingfisher (Ceryle alcyon alcyon) was seen 

 flying over a frozen salt marsh at Cohasset, Mass. No open water was to 

 be seen anywhere save the open ocean between Duxbury and Boston. — 

 W. Sprague Brooks, Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Boston, Mass. 



Notes from the Chicago Area. — I would like to report the following 

 rare birds for this locality. 



Two fine specimens of the Long-tailed Jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus) 

 have been taken near Chicago; the first by Mr. Frances T. A. Junkin who 

 writes me as follows: " the bird was seen in Lake Como, Walworth County, 

 Wisconsin, in October, 1916. It was flying high over the middle of the Lake 

 and seemed to be looking for something. It was so markedly a strange 

 bird that it was taken for my collection." The bird is in the dark, imma- 

 ture plumage, without the long tail feathers. 



The second bird is also in the dark plumage, a rich gray with fine penciling 

 of a lighter color. This bird was seen first on August 20, 1917. While 

 watching the gulls and terns, at Miller's, Indiana, we were rather startled 

 by a ghost-like gray bird, which glided by us, more like a hawk than a gull. 

 I reported the bird to the fishermen at Miller's, and asked them to let me 

 know if such a bird should be seen around their nets. On September 11, 

 1917, the bird was found dead on the beach, and is now in the collection of 

 the Chicago Academy of Science. — Frank M. Woodruff, Chicago Acad. 

 Sci., Chicago, III. 



Notes on some British Columbia Birds. — Colymbus nigricollis 

 calif ornicus. Eared Grebe. — This species was first taken in the 

 Okanagan District by Mr. Allan Brooks, on May 23, 1912. An adult male 

 was collected by the writer on September 30, 1915. Sight records were 



