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rapids. Personal examination proved that the grebe had been dead only 

 a few hours. — Alexander W. Blain, Jr., Detroit, Mich. 



HolboeH's Grebe and the White Pelican at St. Mary's Georgia. — On 



February iS, 1904, I shot a Holboiirs Grebe i^Colymbus liolbcellii') in the 

 mouth of Cumberland River, only about one mile from Florida waters. 

 Mr. Chapman in his ' Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America ' 

 (the latest authority I have) gives South Carolina as the southern limit 

 of its range. 



During the fall migrations (1903), three American White Pelicans 

 {Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) were taken within a radius of twenty miles of 

 this place — -one in the St. Marys River opposite Kings Ferry, Fla.; one 

 in the Satilla River, about Satilla Bluff, and one at Stafford Plantation 

 on Cumberland Island. All three, I believe, were in such an exhausted 

 condition that they were taken alive. — Isaac F. Arnow, St. Marys, Ga. 



Another Ohio Record for the Knot {Tringa canutus). — Authentic 

 records for the occurrence of this bird in Ohio are few and far between. 

 It gives me great pleasure to add at least one more record. While going 

 over a small lot of Sandpipers and Plovers in the museum of Heidelberg 

 University, I came across a specimen of this bird, shot in the spring of 

 1894 on the banks of the Sandusky River, here at Tiffin. — W. F. Hennin- 

 ger, Tiffin, Ohio. 



The Red-backed Sandpiper in Massachusetts in December. — Mr. 

 George C. Shattuck gave me a Red-backed Sandpiper t^Pelidna alpina 

 pacijica) which he shot on Barnstable Neck, Mass., on December 23, 1903. 

 It was in company with another of its kind. — Reginald Heber Howe, 

 Jr., Concord, 3fass. 



Capture of Krider's Hawk at St. Marys, Georgia. — I take pleasure in 

 recording the capture of a male Krider's Hawk [Buteo borealis kriderii) 

 in the extreme southeastern corner of Georgia on February 3, 1904. . . 

 In the winter of 1901-02 Mr. A. H. Helen, of Miller Place, N. Y., and I [{^''yYl. 

 were hunting on Point Peter, a Government reservation a few miles down 

 the river from this place, and saw two apparently very light colored Red- 

 tailed Hawks but failed to get a shot at them. He remarked that they 

 looked as light as Krider's Hawk. This winter I found that one at 

 least was there again and I made several trips there trying to get a shot, 

 but while I would see him on every occasion he was too warv for me to 

 get what I considered a sure shot, and I would take no chances at him. 

 On February 3, 1 decided I would try him again. Just before reaching my 

 landing place, and while just opposite his haunt, 1 saw a hawk coming 

 across from the Florida side of the river and scarcely had time to throw 

 down my oars and get a suitable shell in iny gun when he was abreast of 

 me. I shot and he fell in the river about 100 feet astern. I foimd him 



