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GENERAL NOTES. 



The Red-throated Loon (Gavia lellata) at the Southern Extremity 

 of Lake Michigan. — March 24, l ( .ti:'> I found an immature female of this 

 Bpeciea Lying dead on the beach at Miller, Lake Co., Indiana. Evidently 

 BOme hunter had shot it and then thrown it away. It was in excellent con- 

 dition, being very fat, and had been, to all appearances, recently killed. 

 It may be, as Mr. B. F. Gault suggests, that this .species is more common 

 on Lake Michigan during the colder months than is generally supposed, 

 bu1 printed records, for the region about Chicago at least, are few. There- 

 fore, it seems worth while to put this specimen on record. I have preserved 

 the skin. 



Mr. Gault has very kindly given me permission to publish another record 

 concerning the appearance of this species in the Chicago area. April 18, 

 1908, he found a specimen in adult plumage in the shop of a taxidermist 

 at Lyons. This bird was said to have been shot that morning nearby in the 

 Desplaines River below Riverside, a western suburb of Chicago. 



I wish to express my obligations to Messrs. A. YV. Butler and B. T. Gault 

 for information concerning previous records. — Edwin D. Hull, Chicago, 

 III. 



The Old-squaw (Harelda hyemalis) on the Connecticut Coast in 

 Summer — Since there seem to be but few published notes concerning 

 the occurrence of the Old-squaw south of its breeding grounds in summer, 

 the following notes will probably be of interest. I first observed this 

 species in summer on August 2, 1906, in a small bay at the mouth of Oyster 

 River, West Haven, Conn. There were three of the birds at this time. 

 They were observed very closely and seemed disinclined, and perhaps 

 unable to fly. When I threw stones close to them they paid no attention, 

 and when I ran at them suddenly, to try to make them fly, they merely 

 dove. 



My Becond meeting with this species in summer occurred recently at 

 Compo, Conn., near West port. On the evening of July 14, 1913, I was out 

 rowing with three friends. It was a warm, moonlight, summer evening 

 without a breath of wind. When nearly a mile from shore we heard the 

 calling of a flock of Old-squaws. As we drew nearer they called repeatedly, 

 and we BOOn saw them, seated on the water. It was too dark to see any 

 but the nearest birds, SO that an accurate count was impossible. The most 

 thai I counted at one time was twelve, but I believe it more likely that the 

 number was somewhere between fifteen and twenty. When we got close 

 to them, some of the birds (lew, but most of them beat along the surface 

 of the water with their wings as if unable to rise, and finally dove instead. 

 The birds called repeatedly, the " south south southerly " call. Although 

 we were unable to .-ee them clearly enough in the moonlight to make out 



