1911 J General Notes. Zoo 



In his ' Preliminary Catalogue of the Birds of Missouri,' 1907, p. 33, 

 Mr. Otto Widmann records (lie capture of a male bird shot by Dr. A. E. 

 Rives of East St. Louis, 111., in the vicinity of St. Louis, April 10, 1905. 

 In the ' Forest and Stream ' of Jan. 28, 1911, Mr. Albert G. Holmes of 

 Green Bay, Wis., records the capture of a male European Widgeon which 

 came to his decoys while hunting on Point Au Sable, Green Bay, Wis., 

 Nov. 11, 1906, and a second specimen, also shot by him in the same locu- 

 tion Oct. 23, 1910. 



Mr. Holmes writes me that he believes these Widgeon to be more nu- 

 merous than is generally supposed, and are considered hybrids by gunners, 

 as he himself first thought until he learned the characteristic differences 

 between the English and American species from an old hunter naturalisl 

 who knew the former in the Old World before settling here. Neither of 

 these Wisconsin specimens were preserved. These records make the 

 twenty-third for the interior. — Ruthven Deane, Chicago, III. 



A Banded Baldpate shot at Currituck, N. C. — On January 5, 191 1, a 

 member of the Currituck Shooting Club of North Carolina shot a male 

 Baldpate (Mareca arnericana) that had on its leg a band, numbered " 7206 

 R." This may be interesting to the man who tagged the bird. — John E. 

 Thayer, Lancaster, Mass. 



A Second European Teal (Neltion crecca) in Maine.— On March 26, 

 1910, I was called upon to examine a specimen of the European Teal in 

 the flesh, which had been taken a day or two earlier at Scarborough, Maine. 

 During the day, the bird was examined by Messrs. Nathan C. Brown and 

 Walter H. Rich. It was a male in good plumage. The skin passed into 

 the possession of Dr. Henry H. Brock, of this city. The sternun, shoulder 

 girdle, and sacrum are in my possession. 



The only other occurrence in the State known to me is the one recorded 

 by Dr. Brock, as taken in Casco Bay, April 6, 1903 (Auk, XXIV, p. 94).— 

 Arthur H. Norton, Portland, Me. 



The White-winged Scoter (Oidemia deglandi) in South Carolina. — 

 In ' Birds of South Carolina,' 1910, p. 218, I placed this species in the 

 hypothetical list on account of insufficient evidence of its occurrence in the 

 State. I now, however, wish to record a specimen that I observed on 

 January 20, 1911, on the Wando River. I was en route to " Cat Island," 

 and when off that place I observed a large, black Scoter flying up the river. 

 When the bird was abreast of me I was surprised to see that the wings 

 (speculum) were white, for long before it came within good view I was 

 satisfied that it was a Surf Scoter (0. perspicillata) . The distance was too 

 great for a successful shot, but I watched the bird with longing eyes until 

 it finally disappeared from vision. 



Although mussels and other shell-fish are found in quantities in the 

 Wando River and the Golden-eye (Clangula clangula arnericana) winters 



