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Notes from Grosse Isle, Michigan — Lophodytes cucullatus. On 



July 5, 1909, James H. Fleming, P. A. Taverner, and I noticed a bird 

 swimming in the Detroit River just outside of the strip of marsh below 

 my place on the island which we took to be a grebe. Upon investigation 

 we saw that it was a duck of some species, and Taverner took a canoe and 

 secured it. It was a juvenile male Hooded Merganser in good condition 

 but with a healed broken wing which accounted for its presence here at 

 this time. 



Dendroica discolor. — I saw at very close range, on Sept. 30, 1909, a 

 Prairie Warbler on the edge of a low strip of woodland in the central 

 section of Grosse Isle. The bird approached within about fifteen feet of 

 me, and I could clearly make out the yellowish wing bars, the yellow super- 

 ciliary stripe, and streaked sides. This bird was lingering somewhat 

 later than it generally does in other localities. I am aware of no other 

 county record in autumn. At Point Pelee, Ont., however, we have taken 

 it Sept. 5, 1905, and August 15, 1908, and Saunders and Taverner have 

 seen and heard birds that they were positive were this species on Sept. 

 6, 1905, and Sept. 20, 1906.— B. H. Swales, Gross Isle, Mich. 



Notes from Connecticut. — As it will be at least a year before the ' List 

 of the Birds of Connecticut' on which Mr. Sage and I have been at work 

 can be ready for the press I have felt the following records were of enough 

 interest to be recorded in 'The Auk.' 



Fulmarus glacialis. Fulmar. — A male was shot ofT Stony Creek by Mr. 

 A. H. Verrill on October 10, 1909, and brought to Dr. L. C. Sanford in 

 the flesh. The latter showed it to me on October 12, just after he had 

 finished making it into a skin. This is the first record for Connecticut, 

 and it is remarkable that so pelagic a species should have wandered to 

 Long Island Sound. 



Somateria dresseri. American Eider. — Young King Eiders {Soviateria 

 spectabilis) often occur in late fall on the Connecticut coast, but the only 

 record for the present species that I know of since 1877 (Merriam, Trans. 

 Conn. Acad., IV, 1877, p. 127) is that of a young male which Mr. Alanson 

 Ganung shot off West Haven on December 20, 1909, and very kindly 

 gave me in the flesh. 



Limosa fedoa. Marbled Godwit. — On August 26, 1909, Mr. Wil- 

 liam Ganung shot in West Haven an adult female Marbled Godwit and a 

 young Western Willet {Catoptrophorus seviipalmatus inornatus), and his 

 brother, Alanson, brought them to me. Western Willets are by no means 

 common, and this is the first occurrence of the Marbled Godwit, so far 

 as I know, since Linsley's record (Am. Jour. Sci., XLIV, 1843, p. 267). 



Aquila chrysaetos. Golden Eagle. — A young bird of this species 

 was shot in East Haven on October 9, 1909, and brought to Dr. Sanford in 

 the flesh. 



Haliaeetus leucocephalus alascanus. Northern Bald Eagle. — 

 A young female Bald Eagle, which was shot near Willimantic on October 



