254 General Notes. [^^fi 



Following a rumor that the " California Quail " had been introduced I 

 made inquiry of several of the settlers but found nothing to confirm such 

 report. 



The Partridge seems first to have appeared on Upper Willow Creek about 

 10 or 12 years ago and gradually became somewhat common. The hard 

 winter of 1905-06, drove many flocks to the barnyards for food, where it 

 would seem they met with almost universal destruction at the hands of 

 settlers. 



For several years they were not seen at all, but are again becoming 

 somewhat common. No specimens have been examined, I am therefore 

 unable to state how the species compares with those from the Cascades 

 and Coast Mts. 



The past May a small colony of two or three pairs of Bobolinks were 

 found nesting in a meadow at Ironside, the first record I think for the 

 state, and extending the known range of the species considerably to the 

 westward. — A. W. Anthony, Portland, Ore. 



Additions to Birds of Kerrville, Texas. — In my paper on the Birds 

 of Kerrville, published in 'The Auk' 1911, pp. 200-219, I accidentally 

 omitted the following species. 



Charitonetta albeola. Buffle-head. — Occasional on the Guada- 

 loupe river. A female was shot last December in the neighborhood of 

 Kerrville. 



Bartramia longicauda. Upland Plover. — Formerly very numer- 

 ous during migration in the more open parts of the country, but rapidly 

 becoming scarcer. 



Aquila chrysaetos. Golden Eagle. — A young bird taken from a 

 nest near the head waters of the Guadaloupe, was kept for several years 

 as a pet in a saloon at Kerrville. Have seen the bird two or three times 

 on Turtle Creek. One was shot near the head of the Guadaloupe river 

 some time during last winter and the stuffed skin is in Kerrville. 



Haliaeetus 1. leucocephalus. Bald Eagle. — Formerly not uncom- 

 mon and used to breed on bluffs along the Guadaloupe, Frio and Medina 

 rivers. Both of these Eagles are occasionally troublesome to the ranch 

 owners, killing young lambs and kids. 



Last year I also added two species to my list of birds of the neighbor- 

 hood of Kerrville. 



Pelecanus erythrorhynchos. White Pelican. — On April 23, a 

 flock of about eighty were seen along the river about three miles from 

 Kerrville, and one of them was killed and I saw the remains. 



Wilsonia pusilla pileolata. Pileolated Warbler. — One male at 

 the ranch on Turtle Creek May 11, 1911. — Howard Lacey, Kerrville, 

 Texas. 



Recent Records from the Valley of the Lower Rio Grande.— Two 



examples of the Yellow-crowned Night Heron ( Nyctanassa violacea) 9 Jan. 



