°jgg General Notes. 8o 



B. Hinton, of Kissimmee, Florida, Superintendent of Schools for Osceola 

 County, who, under date of November i6, 1896, gives the following infor- 

 mation concerning it. 



"Mr. J. R. Graves, proprietor of the 'Lake House,' purchased some 

 Qiiail a few days ago from a young fellow from the country, and among 

 the Q^iail was this Dove. Knowing my fondness for birds he gave me 

 the Dove. It was put in a coop (6X9 ft.) with some Carolina Doves and 

 some Qiiail, where it seemed to be contented for two or three days, eating 

 wheat and corn grits with as much relish as would a cooped chicken. But 

 something frightened it from its roost night before last and it killed 

 itself by trying against the woven wire with which the coop i« covered. 

 The astonishing thing is the velocity with which the bird flies, even at 

 the moment it springs into the air. The coop mentioned is only four 

 feet tall ; yet this Dove struck the wire with such force as almost to strip 

 one of its wings from its body, exposing, also, its windpipe completely." 



So far as I am aware, this species has never before been observed so 

 far north in Florida, where, even much farther south, its occurrence seems 

 to be exceedingly rare. — Rohert Ridgw.w, WasJiiiigton, D. C. 



The California Vulture in Alberta. — On the loth of September last 

 (1S96) I saw between Calgary and the Rocky Mountains two line speci- 

 mens of the California Vulture, Pseudogryphus californianiis. I was not 

 aware that this bird was found east of the Rocky Mountains, or so far 

 north as the point above mentioned. — [. F'.\nnin, Proz'iucial Museum, 

 Victoria, B. C. 



Golden Eagle (Ac/ui/a ckrysaetos) taken near New Haven, Conn. — I 

 have a fine Golden Eagle, killed in Woodbridge, within five miles of New- 

 Haven, about Oct. I, 1896. I received it in the fiesh the next day after 

 it was killed. It was eating a Red-tailed Hawk when killed, and we took 

 portions of the Hawk from its crop. It was a female, in fine plumage. — 

 A. E. V^ERRiLL, Neiv Haven, Conn. 



Abundance of Owls on the Coast of British Columbia. — Never in the 

 history of my observations, which covers a period of thirty years, has 

 there been such a gathering of Owls on the coast of British Columbia as 

 that which has taken place this fall. The gathering is represented by the 

 following species: Dusky Horned Owl (^Buho virginianns saturatus), 

 Snowy Owl {^Nyctea nyctea), Kennicott's Screech Owl ( MegascoJ>s asio 

 kciinicottii), and the California Pvgmv Owl { G/a/icidiuni gnona califor- 

 nicniii^. 



They have literally invaded the land, and the two first mentioned 

 species are playing havoc with chickens, turkeys, quail, in fact anything 

 they can lay their claws on. The extreme cold weather reported in the 

 North is probably the cause of this migration. — J. Fannin, Proz'incial 

 Museum. Victoria. B. C. 



