oOo General Notes. Uuly 



described. On May 18, 1907, while with a class of students in bird study 

 from the University of Chicago, an American Bittern was observed not 

 seventy-five yards distant, in a marsh at Millers, Indiana. The white 

 nuptial plumes were displayed in most conspicuous fashion so that the 

 attention of all members of the party was directed to them at once. — 

 R. M. Strong, University of Chicago, Chicago, III. 



The Sandhill Crane (Grus mexicana) in Ohio. — The Carnegie Museum 

 has recently acquired a fine specimen of the Sandhill Crane, shot on April 

 11, 1911, in the southwest corner of Huron County, near Plymouth, Ohio, 

 by Mr. F. B. Lofland. It appears that Mr. Lofland first saw the bird a 

 week or ten days previously and wounded it at that time, but did not 

 succeed in capturing it. Upon the occasion of his next visit he again 

 found the bird, which was unable to fly, and showed fight upon being 

 approached, so that he was obliged to shoot it. The occurrence of this 

 species in Ohio seems worthy of record, as it is certainly one of the rarest 

 birds of the State, although Mr. Lofland thinks that he has seen other 

 individuals at this same locality — an extensive swamp. — W. E. Clyde 

 Todd, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



A Woodcock in New York City. — On March 10, Mr. Louis H. Schorte- 

 meier brought into the office of the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies a Woodcock, Philohela minor, which he had picked up in Maiden 

 Lane, New York City, that morning (March 25, 1911). The bird appeared 

 to be in good condition, save that it was probably weak from hunger. 

 It was sent to the New York Zoological Park. Mr. Crandall informs me 

 that the bird refused all food and was kept alive for about a week by stuffing 

 it with worms and maggots, when it died. This has been the previous 

 experience at the Park with these birds and is in line with one experience 

 that I had. Although Mr. Crandall e*en secured earth worms for this 

 bird, and buried them in soft earth, the bird refused to eat voluntarily. — 

 B. S. Bowdish, Demarest, N. J. 



A Golden Plover in Massachusetts in April. — On April 8, 1911, while 

 at Plum Island, Mass., with Dr. J. B. Brainerd, Barron Brainerd, and 

 Richard M. Marble, I shot a Golden Plover (Charadrius dominicus). 

 The bird proved to be a male with a single black feather near the center 

 of his breast. He is now in my collection. 



The bird had not been seen by members of the Plum Island life-saving 

 station near which he was shot, neither were there any traces of old wounds. 

 His body was entirely free from fat. Whether he was a straggling migrant 

 or a bird which had been forced to winter is a question open to discussion. — 

 James L. Peters, Harvard, Mass. 



The Troupial at Santa Barbara, Cal. 1 — Yesterday (April 30, 1911) 



1 Extracts from two letters written to the Editor, with permission to publish, 

 dated respectively May 1 and May 4, 1911. — Ed. 



