Vol.XXVIIJ General Notes. 79 



The Wood Ibis {Mycteria americana) in the Mountains of North CaroUna. 

 — I saw and examined a mounted specimen of this species which was 

 killed on the Catawba River near Morganton, Burke County, North 

 Carolina, a few years ago. The bird was on exhibition in Leslie's drug 

 store and the proprietor assured me that many others were seen but not 

 secured. As far as my information extends this species has never been 

 reported further westward than Raleigh. (See Brimley, Auk, X, 1893, 

 243.) — Arthur T. W.wne, Mount Pleasant, S. C. 



An Egret in Rhode Island. — Messrs. Angell & Cash of Providence, R. I., 

 permit me to record the capture of an immature male Egret {Herodias 

 egretta) at Point Judith, August 2, 1909. The bird was brought to them 

 to be mounted. — Reginald Heber Howe, Jr., Concord, Mass. 



Capture of the Northern Phalarope near Springfield, Mass. — A Northern 

 Phalarope (Lobipes lobatus) was captured on the Connecticut River near 

 Springfield, Mass., on September 23, 1909. — Robert O. Morris, Spring- 

 field, Mass. 



A Recent Record for the Eskimo Curlew. — On November 22, while at 

 the University of Maine, I noticed among the accessions to the Museum a 

 very fine specimen of the Eskimo Curlew which had been recently mounted. 

 This bird is a male and« was taken at Hog Island, Hancock County, Maine, 

 on September 2, 1909, by Mr. Cyrus S. Winch, the taxidermist for the 

 University. This is the first record of the species along the Maine coast for 

 several years. Mr. Winch also had a Hudsonian Curlew taken at the 

 same locality by a fisherman a day or so before he arrived there. — Ora 

 Willis Knight, Bangor, Me. 



Pinnated Grouse in Southern Ontario. — On November 25, 1909, I had 

 the pleasure of looking through the collection of Mr. Alex. Gow, Windsor, 

 Ont., and was much pleased to find in it a recent Canadian specimen of 

 the Pinnated Grouse. The bird was a female in fine condition, taken in 

 Sandwich, West Township, eight miles south of Windsor, on the Detroit 

 River, April 29, 1897. It seems altogether probable that this will be the 

 last specimen ever taken in southern Ontario; though, of course, it will 

 probably occur in the northwestern part of the Province. 



Mr. Gow tells me, that he had two others, which had been taken near 

 Chatham, forty miles east of Windsor, about 1882 or 1883, but these have 

 not been kept. 



The country around Chatham, and from there to Windsor, has much 

 ground suited to the needs of this bird and there can be little doubt that it 

 was once common through most of this territory, although the district 

 ten miles north of Chatham is the only spot from which records have been 

 preserved. — W. E. Saunders, London, Ont. 



