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there and had found bones of good sized mammals at the foot of the 

 cliffs. 



On May i^^, 1S96, I was in camp within a few miles of these cliffs (and 

 intended renewing my visit), when Charles Haskell, a well known col- 

 lector in the employment of Dr. W. L. Ralph, stopped over night with 

 me on his way to try and collect this Eagle's nest. Notwithstanding that 

 he urged me to go with him I allowed a previous arrangement for the day 

 to prevent, and he departed with his guide at daylight on the i6th. He 

 was back at my camp by late afternoon with a beautiful set of three eggs 

 of the Duck Hawk. He found the nest thirty feet below the top of the 

 cliff, which is several hundred feet high, and he was let down with a rope 

 from above. He stated that the bird was very bold and that he had to 

 keep her off with a short club. 



Whether he collected the famous ' Eagle's nest ' or not, is yet to be 

 discovered but the Hawk is a new record for this district, and I believe 

 the nest is a new record for the State of New York. The three beauti- 

 ful eggs are before this with Dr. Ralph's other contributions in the 

 Smithsonian at Washington. 



Ammodramus savannarum passerinus. — A specimen of this bird was 

 killed on the hills south of Oneida Village, July 2, 1S95, by Messrs. Wm. 

 R. Maxon and T. F. Wilcox. 



In addition to the above new records the following are worth recording. 



Ardetta exilis. — Mr. Wm. R. Maxon of Oneida informs me that a gen- 

 tleman of that village killed two of these birds in August, 1892, a few 

 miles west of that place, and also says that since then he has several 

 times seen these birds in the same locality. We had but one previous 

 record of this bird. 



Nycticorax nycticorax naevius. — Mr. Maxon has a full plumaged 

 male of this species which was taken in a steel trap set for muskrats, 

 near Higginsville. Mr. Klock, an Oneida taxerdermist, reports several 

 females (or young .'), from Oneida Lake. 



Cathartes aura. — A specimen of this bird was winged near Maynard, 

 in this county, in August, 1896, and is still kept alive in this citv. Our 

 second record. 



Aquila chrysaetos. — A Golden Eagle was shot, wounded and captured 

 at Clinton early in May, 1896, and was kept in captivity for some time. 

 Our second record. — Egbert Bagg, Utica. N. Y. 



Lake Michigan Bird Notes. — Tringa canutus. — While collecting on 

 the branch of Lake Michigan at Millers, Indiana, August 24, 1896, I 

 obtained a juvenile male of this species which is in the gray and white 

 plumage. It was in company with a large flock of Sanderlings. 



Tringa bairdii. — I took one specimen of this bird, and observed several 

 others. It was surprising how difficult I found it to approach within gun 

 shot of the beach birds ; they would keep together in a large flock, and it 

 required a long trip along siiore to obtain the specimens I wished for. 



