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taken <>n September 1 1, 1899, in Lenawee County by Dr. C. M. Butler 

 thai I examined last winter. In the University of Michigan Museum 

 there is a mounted bird, an adult female labeled ' Michigan,' No. 1172a. 

 A search in the original catalogue reveals uo further data but 1 am in- 

 clined to believe that this specimen came from Mr. .las. Bobson, at one 

 time taxidermist at the Museum in the late seventies. Mr. Hobson did 

 considerable collecting at the St. Clair Flats, and the bird may have been 

 secured there. 



Mr. W. E. Saunders of London, Out., has two specimens taken at Rondeau, 

 Lake Erie, by Mr. Phillip Burk ami sent to him — one secured on October 

 10, 1906, and a female on October 20, 1906.—- B. II. Swales, University 

 of Michigan Museum, 



Black Vulture in Vermont.— On July 7, 1912, a Black Vulture 

 (Ccdharista urubu) was shot in Pawlet, \ t.. a town adjoining this but just 

 across the New York line. It was brought to me for identification and is 

 being mounted by a local taxidermist. It seemed to be an old bird in fine 

 plumage and the wonder is that it should be taken several hundred miles 

 north of its summer home. — F. T. Pf.mhf.k, Granville, X. Y. 



The Swallow-tailed Kite in DeWitt Co., Illinois. — Early in June, 

 1906, 1 observed a bird of this species circling about over the open hills 

 along Salt Creek, about 5 miles southeast of Clinton. The bird was per- 

 fectly unconcerned by my presence, and continued its soaring flight within 

 easy gun range, making its identification a certainty. — Edwin D. Hill, 

 Qhicago, III. 



The Alder Flycatcher in Colorado. — I beg to record two specimens 

 of the Alder Flycatcher (Empidonax trailli alnorum), for Colorado. They 

 constitute the second and third records for the state, the first being a speci- 

 men taken by C. E. Aiken, near I.itnon, Colorado, May 27, 1905. 1 The 

 identification of my birds as of Aiken's is by H. C. Oberholser of the Bio- 

 logical Survey. The first is an adult bird taken in the Clear Creek valley, 

 west oi Denver, June 1. 1911, and the second an immature male taken in 

 same locality August 0. 1911. 'The dates of collection somewhat suggest 

 breeding birds and it is by no means unlikely, that we may be able to add 

 this species to our list of summer residents. Both of the above specimens 

 are now in my collection. — F. C. Lincoln. Colorado Museum of Natural 

 History, Denver, Colo. 



Arkansas Kingbird in Massachusetts. — On October 20, 1912, at 

 Monomoy Island. Chatham, Mass., and just off the heel of Cape Cod, I 

 shot an immature male Arkansas Kingbird (Tyrannus verticalis). The 



bird was flitting about some clumps of bayberry bushes, among the sand 

 dunes near our club house, and first attracted the attention of our club 

 attendant by its bright yellow belly. 



i A Efistorj of the Birds of Colo., bj w L. Sdater, p. 275. 



