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containing specimens which I have collected and mounted in years gone 

 by and among which he recognized a specimen of the Corn Crake (Crex 

 crex) which I had inadvertently identified as another species. 



As regards the history of this bird, I may briefly mention that nearly 

 a quarter of a century ago, in the month of October, while Snipe shooting 

 in a boggy, swampy situation, my dog flushed the strange bird which, fly- 

 ing steadily, was readily brought down, and its like has never since been 

 seen in this vicinity. — James McKinlay, Pictou, N. S. 



The Stilt Sandpiper in Maryland. — As records of Micro-palama himan- 

 topus are rather scarce along the Atlantic coast, and as there is but one 

 record for Maryland, the often quoted Patuxent River bird taken by 

 Mr. II. W. Henshaw on Sept. S, 1SS5, the following may be of interest. 

 On Sept. 9, while shooting Reedbirds on Gunpowder Marsh, Baltimore 

 Co., three Sandpipers came along, were whistled down and all three 

 shot. They proved to be Stilt Sandpipers. Two were badly cut up but 

 the third formed a good skin and is now in my collection. On the same 

 day another bird, in company with two Ring Plovers {^Egialitis 

 semipalmata) was watched for over an hour, through a field glass, but 

 its actions were only those of any Sandpiper. It was on mud where 

 there is usually a small pond in the marsh on Graces Quarter Ducking 

 Shore, a point about five miles from where the others were shot and 

 near the mouth of Gunpowder River, both points being fifteen miles in 

 an air line from the centre of Baltimore city. Being on private prop- 

 erty this last bird was not shot. It, however, came within fifteen feet 

 of me and at no time was over one bundled and fifty feet away during 

 the hour I watched it. — F. C. Kirkwood, Baltimore, Md. 



The Turnstone (Arenaria inter p res) in Minnesota. — On May 27, 1SS9, 

 (see O. & O., Vol. XIV, p. 168) my friend, Mr. Geo. G. Cantwell, secured 

 what he thought the first specimens (five birds) of this species for the State, 

 in Lac Qui Parle Co., but in the same journal (see (). & O., Vol. XV, p. 

 16). I recorded the capture of a male on the shore of Lake Minnetonka, at 

 Excelsior, on May 24, iSSS. 



On May 29, 1891, at Madison, Minn., a fine adult male was brought to me 

 which was found dead near the railroad with part of the left wing miss- 

 ing, caused, no doubt, by the bird flying against the telegraph wire. 



While atMankato, Minn., on Nov. 1, 1898, I was permitted, through the 

 kindness of my friend, Prof. U. S. Cox, in charge of the Department of 

 Biology and Geology of the Mankato State Normal School, to examine the 

 collection of the school. I found there a mounted specimen of an adult 

 Turnstone but, unfortunately, without any data whatever. Upon inquiry 

 I learned that the specimen had been brought, together with a small collec- 

 tion of mounted birds collected near the city, by Mr. D. L. Rose. Mr. Rose 

 informed me that he collected the specimen about 1875 near the city of 



