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corner of the State. The weather was very cold and everything frozen 

 up except a small space of ground which had been kept soft by the 

 draining of hot water pipes from a stationary pumping engine. These 

 birds had evidently been living on this spot for some time, as they were 

 in good condition. — RuTHVEN Deane, Chicago, III. 



Columba corensis at Key West, Florida. — On October 24, 1S9S, an 

 adult female of this species was shot on the Island of Key West, and 

 brought to me in the flesh, by a young collector in my employment, who 

 found it among some Doves in the possession of a dove hunter, who had 

 shot it from a wild fig tree on the outskirts of the town. The skin was 

 sent to Mr. William Brewster, Avho kindly confirmed my identification, 

 .and it is now in his collection. — John W. Atkins, Key West, Fla. 



The California Vulture in Arizona. — So far as I know there has been 

 no record made of the California Vulture {Pseudogryphus cnlifornianus) 

 being in Arizona, and I therefore offer one. In March, 18S1, three men, 

 Bill Johnson, Joe Henderson and Miles Noyes, crossed the Colorado 

 River at Pierce's Ferry, Grand Wash Cliffs, northwestern Arizona. At 

 that time the ferry consisted of a row boat attached to a line that extended 

 across the river from bank to bank. In this boat the men crossed with 

 their packs and swam their horses. They camped that night under the 

 high bluffs. Next morning while getting breakfast they observed what 

 appeared to be two Indians watching them from the top of a distant 

 cliff. This at first glance drove the men to their guns, but a more care- 

 ful examination showed the strangers to be a pair of Vultures. Later 

 they flew almost directly over the camp at an elevation of between 75 

 and 100 yards. Noyes fired a shot from a model 76 Winchester and 

 struck one breaking its right wing near the body. It struck the boulders 

 on the river bank and was killed by the fall. It was described as being 

 of " a dark brown color with purplish warts on the neck." The men 

 had no rule, so measured it with a gun. It was over a gun length in 

 height and more than three gun lengths in the spread of its wings. — 

 Herbert Brown, Yuma, Arizona. 



Melanerpes erythrocephalus Wintering in Chicago. — Some time since 

 Mr. Brandler called my attention to the fact that there was a single 

 specimen of Red-headed Woodpecker hanging about the shrubbery in 

 Jackson Park. While out for an early walk on the morning of February 

 17, I had the pleasure of coming on the bird myself as it was clinging to 

 the trunk of the tree close down to the ground, evidently protecting 

 itself from the wind, in the growth of ornamental shrubs. It was all 

 huddled together, with every feather ruffled, and it was a pitiable sight 

 indeed with the thermometer hovering, as it was, about the twenty below 

 zero mark. This is the only instance which has come to my notice of 

 the Red-head exhibiting the hardihood necessary to winter in this local- 



