258 General Notes. [ £™J 



Kirtland's Warbler in Northeastern Illinois. — As a very welcome 

 addition to the birds of this State, I am pleased to announce the capture 

 here by myself on the 7th of May, 1S94, of a Dendroica kirtlandi. 

 Tbe specimen, an adult male in slightly worn plumage, was taken 

 among hazel bushes on the edge of a clearing. Beyond this, and the 

 bird's excessive tameness, allowing an approach to within a few feet, 

 nothing can be said that will increase our very meagre knowledge of the 

 habits of this rare bird. While in the bushes it impressed me as being a 

 straggler and awaj' from more congenial surroundings. — B. T. Gault, 

 Glen Ellyti, Ills. 



The Water Ouzel in the Coast Range south of Monterey, California. — 

 In March, 1894, several pairs of Water Ouzels (Cinclus mexicanus) were 

 found by Mr. J. Ellis McLellan, a field agent of the Division of Orni- 

 thology and Mammalogy, U. S. Department of Agriculture, in a deep, 

 cool cafion about 20 miles south of Monterey, near a place called Sur. 

 The shaded slopes of this cafion are still studded with the majestic red- 

 woods {Sequoia sempervirens), while the western alder (Alnus rhombi- 

 folia) is common along the banks of the creek. The Ouzels were singing 

 boisterously. The commonest bird at this season (March) was the 

 Varied Thrush {Hesperocichla ncevia). — C. Hart Merriam, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



The Mockingbird in Wyoming. — During the afternoon of May 10, I 

 was collecting birds among the stunted cottonwoods and willow brush of 

 Crow Creek about two miles east of Cheyenne, when I drove out a large 

 gray bird which appeared from a distance to be an entire stranger to me. 

 I chased it down creek a quarter of a mile, when it doubled on me and 

 went back to the place from which I at first flushed it. I was unable to 

 get near enough to kill with No. 12 shot, but was compelled to use a 

 charge of No. 6, and at a distance of sixty-five yards, while on the wing, 

 brought down my specimen. The bird proved to be Mimus folyglottos in 

 fine plumage. Continuing down creek another Mockingbird was flushed 

 from the willow brush but was too wild for me to capture it that evening, 

 although I devoted a full hour to the chase, following the bird for a mile 

 or more. The next morning, the nth of May, I visited the same locality 

 and found my bird again, but only succeeded in shooting it after stalking 

 it, antelope fashion, by crawling prone upon the ground for sixty yards 

 through stunted rose bushes. I succeeded in getting near enough, how- 

 ever, to shoot the bird with No. 12 shot. I have mounted both birds and 

 placed them in the Cheyenne High School collection. 



On May 23 while collecting about a half mile below where these two 

 birds were shot, I heard a singer which I at first thought was a Brown 

 Thrasher, but on listening I heard strange notes and at once concluded it 

 was another Mockingbird. The singer was located in a clump of willows 

 about forty yards from the creek, and an equal distance from the nearest 



