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General Notes. 



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broken the bone of the toe and nearl\- severed it from the foot. Mr. 

 Clarke kindly presented me with his rare ' find,' and a photograph, from 



which the accompanying cut was made, was taken at once. The mussel 

 was 2.92 inches long and 1.61 wide. — Jxo. H. Sage, Portland, Conn. 



An Addition to the Birds of Colorado.— Whilst collecting on June 10, 

 1895, in the eastern foothills of the Wet Mountains, Pueblo Co., Colo., 

 at an altitude of 6,000 feet, I had the good fortune to shoot a Scaled 

 Partridge {Callipefla squamata). On mentioning this fact to Prof. 

 W. W. Cooke of Fort Collins, Colo., he informs me that it has not 

 previously been recorded from the State. It is therefore with some 

 pleasure that I am able to add these handsome birds to the list, making 

 the grand total of 348 species recorded from the State. — Willoughby P. 

 Lowe, Pueblo, Colo. 



Additional Records of the Passenger Pigeon in Illinois and Indiana. 

 — The occurrence of the Wild Pigeon (^Rctopistes migratorius) in this 

 section of the country, and in fact throughout the west generally, Is be- 

 coming rarer every year and such observations and data as come to our 

 notice should be of sufficient interest to record. 



I have, in the past few months, made inquiry of a great many sports- 

 men who are constantly in the field and in widely distributed localities, 

 regarding any observations on the Wild Pigeon, and but few of them 

 have seen a specimen in the past eight or ten years. N. W. Judy & Co. 

 of St. Louis, Mo., dealers in poultry and the largest receivers of game in 

 that section, wrote me as follows : " We have had no Wild Pigeons for 

 two seasons ; the last we received were from Siloam Springs, Arkansas. 

 We have lost all track of them and our netters are lying idle." 



I have made frequent inquiry among the principal game dealers in 

 Chicago and cannot learn of a single specimen that has been received in 

 our markets in several years. I am indebted to the following gentlemen 



