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Rock rooster. On November 3, a boy shot one near the Rifle Range,, 

 which had just put itself on the outside of a Ruffed Grouse. Mr. E. G. 

 White noticed two large ones, and shot them, near Pembroke, in the next 

 county; one was in the act of devouring a grouse. The taxidermist got some 

 more to mount, all in the finest blue plumage, save one which I saw in the 

 market, which was in the immature plumage. Mr. E. Beaupre of Kingston 

 writes me, that he never saw so many Goshawks together as this year. 

 There were regular flights of them passing over the city. He saw them 

 almost every day in October, but during the first week in November they 

 were most abundant. He saw seven flying at one time. One he ap- 

 proached quite close while on a stump tearing a Hairy Woodpecker. 

 Another tried to make a meal of a wooden decoy duck. Many were brought 

 to the local taxidermists. 



The Pine Grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator leucurus) was also unusually 

 early this year. The first ones were seen November 3 near the Rifle Range; 

 one was found dead on the Experimental Farm, November 5. At the same 

 time Mr. E. G. White reported them as extremely common near Pembroke, 

 Renfrew County. And from then till now, they have stayed here. At 

 first they were more common on the outskirts of the city, in sumac patches, 

 but now they have invaded the city, as they did three years ago, only then 

 they came somewhat later. They stay and feed on the many mountain 

 ash trees in the city. 



The Snowy Owl (Nyctea nyctea) seems again to have given Ottawa a. 

 wide berth, whereas further south many are reported. I have seen only 

 one thus far, which was shot about November 5 up the Gatineau valley, 

 about 30 miles north. Mr. E. G. White reports another one having been 

 seen near Pembroke. 



I saw one Richardson's Owl (Cryptoglaux tengmalmi richardsoni) only, 

 which had been shot November 16, at Ottawa. — G. Eifrig, Ottawa, 

 Canada. 



Audubon's Ornithological Biography. — In 'The Auk,' Vol. XXI, 1904, 

 p. 286, Mr. Reginald H. Howe called attention to a copy of Volume I of 

 this work, which he had purchased, bearing the following imprint: "Phil- 

 adelphia: Judah Dobson, Agent, 108 Chestnut Street; and H. H. Porter, 

 Literary Rooms, 121 Chestnut St. MDCCCXXXI." Mr. Howe stated 

 that he was unable to find this imprint in any other copy. 



Since that time I have made careful search and have only recently 

 found a similar copy. This one has been acquired of the John Crevar 

 Library of Chicago, and bears the presentation inscription to the late 

 William LeBaron, M. D., Entomologist, of Geneva, 111., in 1835. — Ruth- 

 ven Deane, Chicago, III. 



