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Heniv may not have stretched the wings to their fullest extent; also, this 

 discrepancy is more than offset bj a bill 7 inches long, and especially 

 by the blue color of the feet. I think this may be safely accepted as an 

 authentic record of the occurrence of D. exulans at the mouth of the 

 Columbia River. I may add that Mr. Henry is a very well-known person 

 in the annals of the famous old North West Company, to whose credi- 

 bility no shadow of suspicion has ever attached. — Elliott Coues, 

 Washington, D. C. 



The Black-capped Petrel {^^strelata kasi'tata) in Ulster County, New 

 York, in January. — A partly mounted specimen of this species was 

 shown to me on February 4 of this year by Mr. Arthur Barker, taxider- 

 mist, of 16 North William Street, New York City. He remarked that he 

 had killed it two days before in order to mount it. Later on I received 

 from Prof. Henry L. Griffis of the State Normal School at New Paltz, 

 Ulster County, New York, an interesting account of its capture there by 

 Mr. August Vradenburgh, on January 26, 1895. It was found by the 

 roadside in the snow and was easily taken by hand, appearing to be in an 

 exhausted condition ; yet it lived seven days in captivity before being 

 killed, having been sent, alive, to Prof. John I. Hover, of Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 in whose collection the mounted bird now is. — L. S. Fcster, Nezv York 

 City. 



The European Widgeon {A?ias penelope) in Indiana. — Although this 

 Duck is not an infrequent straggler to North America, it has usually 

 been recorded from localities on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and 

 rarely in the interior, two instances being on record for Illinois and 

 one for Wisconsin. The specimen in question was taken on the 

 Kankakee River, at English Lake, Ind., on April 13, 1S93, by Mr. 

 Landon Hoyt of Chicago, 111., and is now in his possession. When 

 shot it was in company with a flock of Baldpates {Anas americana'). 

 — RuTHVEN Deane, Chicago, III. 



Baird's Sandpiper on Long Island Sound, N. Y. — Ur. E. H. Eames 

 and I shot two Baird's Sandpipers {Tringa hairdii') Sept. 29, 1894, at 

 Seaside Park, on Long Island Sound. There were ten or more in the 

 flock, also a few Semipalmated Sandpipers. They were very unsuspecting 

 and the whole flock might have been taken. Mr. J. B. Canfield, also of 

 this city, secured a fine male a few days later. — H. H. T.wlor, Bridge- 

 fort, Conn. 



The Golden Eagle in New Jersey. — The publication of Mr. Stone's 

 excellent list of "The Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey' 

 reminds me of an unrecorded adult Aqtiila ckrysaetos taken at Vineland, 

 New Jersey, February 19, 1868, and now in my collection. It was sent to 

 me in the flesh bv a relative living in Vineland. My notebook says the 

 bird was killed with a club, having gorged itself with portions of a 

 deer recently shot. — Jno. H. Sagk, Portland, Conn. 



