VOl 1906 m ] General Notes - 341 



Bachman's Finch in Montgomery County, Virginia. — On the after- 

 noon of May 2, I was in an open pasture on a hillside near Blacksburg, 

 Va. Passing a small brush heap, a sparrow that I took for a Field Sparrow 

 at a casual glance flew to a small tree about twelve feet from the ground. 

 As it lit, it sang, and although for years I had not heard that song, I was 

 at once taken back to the pine woods near Charleston, S. C, where, as a 

 youth I had known so well Bachman's Finch (Peuccea bachmani). I walked 

 under and around the bird, which sat motionless only two yards overhead, 

 and examined it closely; finally it flew to a small clump of bushes, and by 

 moving quietly I got within a yard of it and easily verified my recognition 

 of it as Bachman's Finch. As I had a good series of specimens I forbore 

 to kill the bird, for my identification of it was complete and its song saved 

 it. As soon as I returned home I examined my specimens and amply 

 satisfied myself. Mr. Jno. W. Daniel has noted this bird as breeding 

 near Lynchburg, Va., but still I think this worthy of note. 



I see that Mr. Nathan C. Brown has taken Bachman's Finch in Camden, 

 S. C, on January 25. I have always thought the bird a winter resident 

 on the South Carolina seaboard, for I have taken it in Berkeley County 

 in late December, and Mr. Wayne also notes it, I believe, near Charleston 

 in January. — Ellison A. Smyth, Jr., Va. Polytechnic Inst., Blacksburg, 

 Va. 



The Rough- winged Swallow and Duck Hawk near Springfield, Mass. 



— Stelgidopteryx serripennis. A Rough-winged Swallow was captured 

 by William Dearden in Longmeadow, near Springfield, May 17, 1906. 

 There is no previous record of the occurrence of an individual of this species 

 in the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts since 1851. 



Falco peregrinus anatum. About forty years ago much interest was 

 manifested among ornithologists and others by the fact being made known 

 that the Duck Hawk breeds regularly among the nearly inaccessible clefts 

 that are to be found in the vicinity of the peaks of Mounts Tom and 

 Holyoke that arise from the trap rock range that crosses a portion of the 

 Connecticut Valley some fifteen miles north of Springfield, and from that 

 time to this, nests have been seen there almost every year. In 1905 

 nearly fledged young were found there the last of May, and this year near 

 the same place another nest was discovered containing four eggs. In 

 recent years this portion of the mountain range has been made accessible 

 by reason of the construction of lines of electric railroads, and hundreds 

 visit the region of the Duck Hawk's breeding place where one person did 

 in the sixties, but notwithstanding this, they still continue to select this 

 locality for their summer home. — Robert O. Morris, Springfield, Mass. 



Occurrence of the Titlark (Anthus pensilvanicus) in Maine, in Spring. 



— On the afternoon of May 15, 1889, my brother, Mr. Ralph H. Norton, 

 and I saw a flock of twenty-four Titlarks alight in a field of young grain, 



