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had secured. The next day, Dec. 1. we went to the dock and to all the 

 hunters we could get track of and captured all the specimens that 

 had not already gotten into the pot. Out of fourteen that we could trace as 

 having been killed, we were fortunate enough to obtain seven in good 

 condition. The oldest hunters here do not remember to have seen any 

 of the kind before. They call them Boobies, the same name they give to 

 the Surf Ducks that are frequently taken here. No other Ducks were seen 

 in the bay when the Eiders appeared. They are in all varieties of imma- 

 ture plumage, none appearing in anything like the breeding condition - 

 The nearest approach to it was one male that showed pearl gray mixed 

 with dark on top of head; he also hail a distinct black V-shaped mark on 

 the white throat. The other males had browner heads and fainter black 

 V-shaped throat markings. Of the seven, six are males, and one a female 

 in good typical plumage. I believe that none of this species has been 

 recorded as taken on Lake Erie since 1879, when eighteen were shot at 

 Buffalo, N. V. (See note by J. A. Allen in Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, Vol. 

 V, p. 62.) — Geo. B. Sennett, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York City. 



The Little Brown Crane (Grus canadensis) in Rhode Island. — Under 

 date of Oct. 14, 1SS9, Mr. F. T. Jencks writes me: "I saw today at Mr. J. 

 M. Southwick's natural history store in Providence a finely mounted speci- 

 men of the Little Brown Crane (Grus canadensis) which Mr. Southwick 

 informed me was shot the 8th or 9th of October by Benjamin Burlingame, 

 at Natick Hill, Rhode Island." 



I have since learned from Mr. Southwick that the bird belongs to the 

 Superintendent of Public Schools at Natick where it will be preserved in 

 an educational collection. As far as I am aware this species has never 

 previously been reported from any part of New England, although the 

 Whooping and Sandhill Cranes are supposed to have occurred rather 

 numerously in the early colonial days. — William Brewster, Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



Baird's Sandpiper at New Haven. Connecticut. — On October 19, 1889, 

 I took a male Tringa bairdii at New Haven, Conn. It was living high 

 over a sand spit running out into New Haven harbor, in a flock of about 

 twenty other Sandpipers, of what species I am unable to say. 



Another specimen of this species, a female in the young plumage, now 

 in the collection of Mr. C. C. Trowbridge, New Haven, was shot at the 

 same locality, Oct. 2S, 1887. These make the second and third records * 

 of Baird's Sandpiper for Connecticut. — Lewis B. Woodruff, Nezv 

 Haven, Conn. 



Callipepla squamata in Northeastern New Mexico. — During the month 

 of October, 1S89, I found the Scaled Partridge to be a not uncommon bird 

 at a place called 'Point of Rocks,' about eight miles south of Chico 

 Springs, Colfax Co., New Mexico. They are probably extremely local, as 



*For the first record see Averill, Auk, VI, it 



