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Two Interesting Captures in Lincoln Park, Chicago. — On June 

 12, 1911, Officer C. W. Borggren of Lincoln Park, Chicago, came into 

 m}' office with a fine specimen of Cyanocitta stelleri diadernata which he had 

 just shot. The bird was in perfect plumage, with no frajdng of the tail 

 or primaries, characteristic of a bird that has been caged. He said that 

 his attention had been called to the bird by the cries of a large number of 

 birds nesting in the park, and he found that the jay had taken all of the 

 young from the nest of a Yellow Warbler, had eaten the heads and dropped 

 the bodies to the ground, and was about to repeat the operation on a nest 

 of young Robins. He shot the bird, which is now in the Museum of 

 the Chicago Academy of Sciences, Lincoln Park. 



On September 19, Mr. P. W. Boehm, of Ravinia Park, Illinois, brought 

 in a specimen of the Duck Hawk in the juvenile plumage. The bird had 

 flown into his chicken yard, and had killed and was attempting to carry 

 away a three and one-half pound chicken. 



Mr. Kahman, a Chicago taxidermist, reported that on the 21st of Sep- 

 tember, an Itahan had brought him two young female Duck Hawks which, 

 he said, had flown into his yard on the west side of the city, and had killed 

 several of his pigeons. They were so bold that he had no difficulty in 

 killing both of the birds. — Frank M. Woodruff, Chicago Academy of 

 Sciences, Chicago, III. 



Two New Birds for Greenland^^ In examining literature relating to 

 the ornithology of Greenland I have found the following recent references 

 to two birds that to my knowledge have not as yet been recorded from 

 that country. The.'^e are: 



Turdus iliacus Linn. (Petersen, Johan, ' Ornith. laktt. fra Angmagsalik 

 i Aarene 1902-08, bearbejdede og sammenstillede af O. Helms,' Dansk 

 Ornith. Forcn. Tidsskrift, 3 Aargang, Haefte 1, Copenhagen, Dec, 1908). 

 In translation the reference reads as follows: " To-day [Oct. 20, 1904], 

 ' Kateketen,' [probably some kind of a pedagogue], and myself each shot 

 •one specimen here at the station [Angmagsalik, east coast of Greenland]; 

 they flew from one icefloe to another, near the shore, looking for food. 

 Occasionally they made a little trip inshore, where they no doubt secured 

 sandhoppers and small slugs; they were not very shy." And again, 

 October 31, 1906: " I received to-day a ' Vindrossel ' [Danish name for 

 the Redwing] from a Greenlander, who had shot it on the shore." Novem- 

 ber 3, same year: " A Greenlander saw a strange bird in the course of the 

 day, which he supposed to be a ' Vindrossel.' " Three birds were shot 

 and their skins forwarded to the Museum at Copenhagen. Helms states 

 that this is the first record of Turdus iliacus from the east coast of Green- 

 land, while there ha\^e been " a couple of mentions from the west coast." 

 These mentions are pl-obably the following: (Winge, Herluf, ' Gr^nlands 

 Fugle,' Medd. om Gronland, Heft 21, Copenhagen, 1899, p. 283): "The 

 Redwing has been seen a couple of times on the west coast of Greenland. 



