1 82 General Notes. \_t^\ 



Bay-breast is from Lookout Mountain (1. c, 1895, p. 547) where he 

 observed it May 7, 1895. 



5. Dendroica palmarum. Palm Warbler. — Ibid., p. 547. Mr. Torrev 

 considered the birds seen by him to be typical palmarum. 



6. Dendroica tigrina. Cape May Warbler. — Ibid., p. 547. Cameron 

 Hill and Lookout Mountain. 



7. Cistothorus stellaris. Short-billed Marsh Wren. — A skin from 

 Tennessee is in the Illinois Wesleyan University collection (' Report,' 

 I.e., p. 19). 



8. Turdus aliciae. Gray-cheeked Thrush. — Mr. Torrev saw this 

 bird on Walden's Ridge in Hamilton County (1. c, p. 610). — Samuel N. 

 Rhoads, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Sundry Notes. — New London, Prince Edwards Island, Sept. 1, 1872. 

 Mr. William Everett of Dorchester, Massachusetts, saw to-day a flock of 

 about fifty Eskimo Curlew (Numenius borealis) which had that day landed 

 in a field where a man was ploughing. This man informed him that they 

 were very tame and had been following the furrows picking up and eating 

 earth-worms. This Mr. Everett saw them do, after which he shot fifteen 

 by walking up to them. On examination he found that all those shot 

 were poor, having no fat. 



Billingsgate, Cape Cod, Mass., April 27, 1895. Three Black-bellied 

 Plovers, C. squatarola, the first this spring, noted to-day. On May 13, 

 about one hundred seen all in one flock. 



Mr. Frank Brown, of Chelsea, Mass., who sojourned at Charlotte Harbor, 

 situated on the west coast of Florida, during the winter of 1888, informs 

 me that there is in that neighborhood a small island on which are several 

 dead trees, around the bases of which «he noticed large heaps of good 

 sized conch shells. Some of these heaps he should think were ten or 

 twelve feet square. A portion of these shells appeared as if they had been 

 there for years, while others were fresh looking. Inquiring of his boat- 

 man who was a resident of the place as to the cause, he was informed that 

 the Eagles brought them there, pulled out the meat which they ate, 

 dropping the shells. 



Anasobscura. — Ponkapog Pond, Massachusetts, October 21, 1S95. The 

 first flock of migratory Black Ducks (eighteen in number) of the season 

 came into the pond to-day, thirteen of which were killed. — George H. 

 Mackay, Nantucket, Mass. 



