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taken on Cape Cod and at Ipswich, Mass. This meagre record is all 

 I have to report for the season of 1895. — George II. Mackay, Nantucket, 

 Mass. 



Habits of the Valley Partridge. — While collecting birds and mammals 

 on the upper head of the San Diego River, near Lakeside, San Diego 

 Count v, California, on June 6, 1895, I walked unsuspectingly upon a bevy 

 of Valley Partridges {Callipcpla californica vallicola), consisting of an 

 old male and female with about fifteen young ones. They were in a crevice 

 of a fallen cottonwood-tree. On my stepping almost upon them, the male 

 bird ran out a few feet and raised a loud call of ca-ra-ko ,' while the female 

 uttered short calls, addressed to her brood. Seeing me, she picked up a 

 young one between her legs, heat the ground sharply with her wings, and 

 made towards the bush, in short jumps, holding the little one tightly 

 between her legs, the remainder of the brood following her. 



Can an\ reader of "The Auk' tell me if this is a common practice with 

 this species? — Frank Xavier Holzner, San Diego, Cal. 



Additional Records of the Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes tnigratorius) 

 in Wisconsin and Illinois. — I am indebted to my friend, Mr. John L. 

 Stockton, of Highland Park, 111., for information regarding the occurrence 

 of this Pigeon in Wisconsin. While trout fishing on the Little Oconto 

 River in the Reservation of the Menominee Indians Mr. Stockton saw, 

 early in June. 1S95, a flock of some ten Pigeons for several consecutive 

 days near his camp. They were first seen while alighting near the bank 

 of the river, where they had evidently come to drink. I am very glad to 

 say that they were not molested. 



Mr. John F. Ferry of Lake Forest, 111., has kindly notified me of the 

 capture of a young female which was killed in that town on August 7, 1895. 

 The bird was brought to him by a hoy who had shot it with a rifle hall, 

 and although in a mutilated condition he preserved it for his collection. 



I have recently received a letter from Dr. II. V. Ogden, Milwaukee, 

 Wis., informing me of the capture of a young female Pigeon which, was 

 shot by Dr. Ernest Copeland on the 1st of October, 1S95. These gentle- 

 men were camping at the time in the northeast corner of Delta County, 

 Mich. (Northern Peninsula), in the large hardwood forest that runs 

 through that part of the State. They saw no other of the species. — ■ 

 Ruthven Deane, Chicago, III. 



The Golden Eagle in New Jersey. — Authentic records of the recent 

 occurrence of the Golden Eagle {Aquila chrysaetos) in the Eastern States 

 are so rare that each one seems worthy of note. The following instance 

 happened in New Jersey, on the Crosswicks Creek, about seven miles 

 south of Trenton. The bird was captured by my friend the Rev. W. E. 

 Daw, now of Towanda, Pa., in the late fall of 1888, as near as can now be 

 ascertained. I append part of a recent communication received from him 

 in regard to the Eagle, in answer to my note of inquiry for particulars 



