x "',,M:t XX | General Notes. 271 



amination <>f supposed Eskimo Curlews and not, depending too much 

 upon bill measurements. Witmer Stone, Academy of Natural Scier, 

 Philadelphia. 



Hudsonian Godwit on the Magdalen Islands.— The Hudaonian 

 Godwil [IAmosa hamastica) is becoming so rare that every occurrence it 

 worth publishing, particularly as it seems to be following the Eskimo 

 ( Surlew into oblivion. 



On the 18th of Februaiy, 1911, a hunter got after a (lock of six birds, pre- 

 sumably all id the same species, and of these ii<' secured lour. Three "I 

 these were eaten bul the fourth was mailed to me by mj friend Mi. .1. I'.. 

 Boutilier with die above information. It was a new bird to him ami was 

 also new in my collection. 



Tin' specimen is now No. 'J">70 in my cabinet. -W. E. Saunders, 

 London, Out. 



The Golden Plover (Charadrius dominions dominions) Again on the 

 Coast of South Carolina. In "The Auk,' Vol. XXIX, L912, p. L01, 

 I recorded a specimen of this bird taken by me on November 1, 1911. I 

 now wish to announce the capture by the writer of two birds taken on 

 November 27, 1912, on Oakland plantation, Christ Church Parish. 



According to Prof. Wells W. Cooke (Distribution and Migration of 

 North American Shore Birds, Bull. No. 35, Biological Survey, L910) this 

 date of capture is the latest for the United States. Since I obtained the 

 first specimen in December, L880 (Birds of South Carolina, 1910, i>. 59) 

 Only four more have been seen, three of which I secured. — ARTHUR T. 

 WW mo, Mount Pleasant, S. <'■ 



On the Occurrence of Columba squamosa (Bonnaterre) in Cuba. — 

 During the first days of December, L912, 1 was advised by a native that 

 there was good ' Torcaza ' shooting on the 'Sierra, del Maquey' Range 

 five miles to i he east of the • San Carlos ' Sugar Estate near Guantanamo 



1 was unable to get away till the 1 01 li , by which time the natives had 



had a good ten days' start , having shot probably :m average of 300 pigeons 

 .1 day. Still I found plenty of pigeons, <'<>liiiiihn squamosa (Bonn.), and 



got 69 Specimens in a few hours, unfortunately very few were worth 



keeping as meat, quantities of feathers were knocked off by the branches 

 while falling In fact only one specimen turned out really good. The 

 pigeons, were feeding on the berries of ' Come-Cara ' and 'Juan Perez'. 

 By keeping still 1 could hear the berries dropping through the Leaves i" 



the mound when they slipped from the pigeon's bill, as also their soft, low 



' cooing,' thus indicating where to find them. 



During their stay on the 'Sierra del Maquey' some three weeks — 

 I can safely say thai ovei 5000 pigeons were ahol by natives for eating 



and selling. 'The custom is to cut oui the breasts, fry them slightly and 



pui I loin away packed in lard in earthenware vessels when they will ' keep' 



