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regarding it. Efforts made to obtain more accurate information from the 

 taxidermist as to the exact date of capture have entirely failed. 



" In regard to the ' bird of freedom ' my memory is very rusty as to the 

 time when it was shot, but the place I remember distinctly. I was sitting 

 in my boat up Crosswicks Creek, quietly waiting for squirrels in the chest- 

 nut woods of Alfred Reid (I being somewhat hidden by the bushes to 

 which the boat was tied), when the Eagle sailed overhead, and was about 

 to light in a tree when I fired a charge of duck shot and broke his wing 

 near the shoulder. He fell in the water and was floating down stream 

 when I fired squirrel shot in his head and he was still. I have looked up 

 my diary but can find no record of the date when 1 shot him, but think 

 it was late in the fall in 188S; time of day, about five o'clock. The bird is 

 still in my possession. He measured 6 feet 4 inches from tip to tip. lam 

 positive he is a Golden Eagle for he is feathered to the toes and has the 

 characteristic arrow-head feathers on head." — -William C. Braislin, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. 



The Golden Eagle in Maine. — On August 19, 1895, Professor F. L. 

 Harvey of the Maine State College and myself were making the ascent of 

 Sandy River Mountain in northwest Maine. When we had nearly reached 

 the summit of the mountain, we heard the cry of some raptorial bird, and 

 a Golden Eagle (Aquila ckrysaetos) soon appeared and flew around us 

 uttering its cry. We remained at the top of the mountain for some time, 

 during which the Eagle remained in our vicinity and seemed much 

 disturbed at our presence. We both concluded that the bird had young 

 somewhere in our vicinity, and as the south side of the mountain was a 

 steep cliff, there is no reasonable doubt but that the bird had a nest 

 somewhere on the cliff. When it uttered its cry we could hear answering 

 cries from the direction of the cliff, thus making it evident that the bird 

 had young in the vicinity. — Oka W. Knight, Bangor, Maine. 



A New Long Island. N. Y., Record for the Red-bellied Woodpecker 

 {Melanerpes carolinus). — When visiting Mr. C. UuBois Wagstaft at Baby- 

 lon, N. Y., last fall, 1 noticed a well-mounted specimen of this southern 

 Woodpecker among a collection of local birds, and on inquiring the par- 

 ticulars of its capture, Mr. Wagstaft informed me that he shot it upon a 

 locust tree close to the house, a year or two after the war. A specimen 

 was shot by me in Flushing. N. Y., in October 1S70, which I understood 

 was the second record for Long Island, N. Y., but this bird antedates my 

 specimen some years. The specimen in the collection of Mr. Geo. N. 

 Lawrence, which was taken at Raynor South by a Mr. Ward, was killed 

 many years ago and was, I believe, the first record for this locality. — 

 Robert B. Lawrence, New York City. 



The Deltoid Muscle in the Swifts. — In examining a number of Swifts 

 recently I was struck with the fact that our common Chimney Swift 

 (^Ch&tura pelagica) lacks the deltoid muscle. This is interesting as being 



