VoLXXIH General Notes. 4I3 



A few years ago I detected a similar healing in a Yellow Warbler's 

 (Dendroeca (Estiva) leg. Is there any need for us to suppose that birds 

 need "mud " settings for their broken limbs, when nature unaided accom- 

 plishes such perfect mends? — Reginald Heber Howe, Jr., Concord, 

 Mass. 



Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) in Michigan. — A bird of this species 

 was shot by Samuel Kennedy in Atlas township, Genesee Co., Mich., 

 about April 27, 190^, near the Medbury Farms. I examined this bird 

 later. Resident hunters inform me that this is the first bird that they 

 have ever known to have been taken in the vicinity. Personally I have 

 never observed it in my visits in the county, which have extended since 

 1 901. Mr. Samuel Shicer records a bird shot near Goodrich, five miles 

 south of Atlas, on October 10, 188S (O. & O., 18S9, p. 43). — Bradshaw 

 H. Swales, Detroit, Mich. 



The Turkey Vulture in Western Massachusetts. — A young Turkey 

 Vulture {Cathartes aura) was captured by Walter Stanley in. Becket, a 

 town in Massachusetts, thirty-five miles west of Springfield, June 8, 1905. 

 The bird was observed in a field eating a dead lamb, and was then killed 

 and sent to the Museum of Natural History in this city. — Robert O. 

 Morris, Springfield. Mass. 



The Gray Gyrfalcon in Wisconsin. — On Nov. 27, 1904, Fred Dean, a 

 young hunter of this city, brought me a fine specimen of this bird, which 

 is now No. 5777 of my collection of North American birds. 



He shot it that forenoon, as it flew swiftly by him at a long range dis- 

 tance. The place was near an island known locally as Skunk Island, the 

 bird at the time flying over a nearby marsh. The bird proved to be a 

 voung female. 



Having handled Gyrfalcons when in Alaska I at once so named the 

 specimen, and reference to descriptions of the bird in various works on 

 ornithology further strengthened my belief. However, that no error 

 might be possible I decided to have it examined by some authority, so it 

 was sent on July 3 of the present year to Dr. Merriam of the Biological 

 Survey. Dr. Merriam being at that time in the West the acting chief, Dr. 

 A. K. Fisher, turned it over to Prof. Robt. Ridgway of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, who examined it, labelled the bird Falco rusticola juv., in 

 his own handwriting, and returned it to me. So there can be no doubt 

 whatever of its identity. 



That it is a rare capture for Wisconsin seems beyond doubt. Dr. King, 

 in his list of Wisconsin birds published in 'Geology of Wisconsin,' Vol. 

 I, makes no mention of it. Kumlien and Hollister in their 'Birds of 

 Wisconsin' (Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc, Vol. Ill, Nos. 1-2-3), make no 

 mention of the species. Nor can I, in any work at my command, find any 

 specific mention of another capture or record of any nature for this State. 



