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for food in a recently ploughed field. This makes the third specimen I 

 have seen in Soath Carolina since 1880, and the second that I have taken. 

 Although the bird had been wounded in one v/ing, which had not entirely 

 healed, it was in excellent condition, being very fat. This specimen, Uke 

 the one I took in December, 1880, was very wild. — Arthur T. Wayne, 

 Mount Pleasant, S. C. 



Capture of a Golden Eagle at Kansas City, Mo. — On the morning 

 of Oct. 31, 1911, at Seventieth Street and Broadway, Kansas City, Mo., 

 there was captui'ed by Owen Belford of Oklahoma City, and John Bower 

 of Kansas City, Mo., a young Golden Eagle, measuring seven feet eight 

 inches from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other. The men fired at 

 several crows and struck the eagle, which was only stunned, and fell to the 

 ground making the catch easy. The bird was on exhibition at police head- 

 quarters. — Benj. F. Bolt, Kansas City, Mo. 



Duck Hawk (Falco peregrinus anatum). — Mr. Arthur Borch, a Detroit 

 taxidermist, received a fine nearly adult male Duck Hawk that was secured 

 on July 15, 1911, in rather a novel manner. A lady was driving near 

 Lake St. Clair, Grosse Pointe, when suddenly the hawk darted across 

 a field, dived straight at her horse, and became entangled in the fly netting 

 upon which he was killed with a whip. The Duck Hawk was probably 

 in pursuit of some small bird that took refuge near the horse and which 

 the lady failed to see. Wayne County records for this bii'd are not common, 

 and this is my first summer record. On March 9, 1908, I watched one 

 beating up the Detroit River near Grosse Isle. Two specimens were 

 secured October 21, 1909, between Celeron Island and the mouth of the 

 Huron River which I examined at the taxidermist's shop. On Lake Erie, 

 near Point Pelee, however, we regularly see the bird in spring and fall. — 

 B. H. Swales, Grosse Isle, Mich. 



Another Saw-whet Owl from Oregon. — To-day I had the pleasure 

 of examining the skin of an adult female Saw-whet Owl {Cryptoglaux 

 acadica acadica) shot by George D. Baker, a Portland taxidermist. The 

 specimen was taken Oct. 12 of this year (1911) only seven miles from the 

 coast near Gairdner, Douglas Co., Oregon. This is the sixth specimen 

 taken by Mr. Baker near this locality during the past ten years. — Stanley 

 G. Jewett, Portland, Oregon. 



Occurrence of the Yellow-headed Blackbird on the Delaware 

 River near Philadelphia, Pa. — According to Mr. Edwin C. Axe, the 

 well-known taxidermist of Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa., there are two 

 mounted specimens of the Yellow-headed Blackbird taken on the Delaware 

 River marshes above the Pensauken Creek, in Burlington County, New 

 Jersey, in collections in this city. Mr. Axe mounted the birds, which were 



