d(J4 General Notes. [April 



in the State. — Witmer Stone, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 

 Pa. 



Additional Notes on the Birds of Red Deer, Alberta. — In Mr. 



Taverner's article on the Birds of Red Deer (The Auk, 1919) he invites 

 further information on that region, and the following notes are offered 

 as perhaps worthy of record. They are from my own investigations on 

 June 2 to 6, 1903, at Innisfail; June 19 to 26, 1906, at Red Deer and Innis- 

 fail; and May 30 to June 9, 1911, at Camrose and the Miquelon Lakes, 

 fifteen miles north. The numbers are those of Mr. Taverner's list: 



2, Hollboell's Grebe. In nearly every medium-sized lake, this 

 species was found to outnumber the Western by several to one. Though 

 in spots, the latter was the more abundant. Lakes would be frequently 

 found with a population of Holboell's exclusively. 



4, Eared Grebe. Abundant in many of the smaller lakes. 



5, Pied-billed Grebe. Rare. 



10, Tern. A species thought to be the Common, was in hundreds on 

 the Miquelons in 1911. None were taken for identification. 



Hooded Merganser. One seen on June 3, another on June 6, 1911, 

 at Miquelon. 



Red-breasted Merganser. One at Miquelon, June 2, 1911. 



Ring-necked Duck. Ten seen on Wavy Lake, June 3, 1903. 



35, Great Blue Heron. The only spruce tree on the Pelican Island 

 at Miquelon, June, 1911, had so many Cormorants' nests that one's 

 clothes got very dirty in forcing through them to reach the top of the 

 tree, where there were five nests of the Great Blue Heron. There were 

 thirty or forty nests of the Cormorant. 



Pectoral Sandpiper. Three. 



Hudsonian Godwit. One. 



Marbled Godwit, three. 



All these at a little lake ten miles northeast of Camrose on June 6, 1911, 

 also two more of the last named on May 30, 1911, near Camrose. The 

 Hudsonian was in the spectacular cinnamon plumage which, with his long 

 bill, made identification extremely easy. 



51, Black-bellied Plover. One at the same place as the three above. 

 I have also a skin taken near Edmonton on September 23, 1896. 



53, Hungarian Partridge. Mr. Farley informs me that this spe- 

 cies is approaching nearer to Camrose, and it is now affording fair shooting 

 south of Calgary, appearing to be well suited by the prairie conditions. 



73, Osprey. A nest was found at Pine Lake (a name that is of abun- 

 dant occurrence in the west) twenty miles S. E. of Red Deer on June 2, 

 1906. The birds were feeding young, but were too wary to approach 

 the nest while we were near. It was on a broken topped tree near the 

 lake, about fifty feet up, and immediately below it, within six feet, a Red- 

 breasted Nuthatch was incessantly going to feed her young. 



