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bound and not far to the southward of Sable Island, Nova Scotia or,^to 

 quote the manuscript record literally, in "Lat. about 43° N., and Long. 60° 

 W." "There had been a northeast gale for five days," which perhaps 

 accounts for the occurrence of the bird so far to the westward. For two 

 days previous to its capture it had been seen following the steamer. When 

 it sought refuge on her decks it was utterly exhausted and very much 

 emaciated, being, indeed, "nothing but skin and bones." "The men on 

 board tried" to revive it " with food (probably corn beef and hard tack) .... 

 but it died a short time before the steamer reached port." Her Second 

 Officer, S. A. Cornwell by name, took it in the flesh to D. B. Mackie of 

 Maiden, Massachusetts, by whom it was skinned, sexed and mounted and 

 from whom I afterwards purchased it, through the kind offices of Dr. 

 Lombard C. Jones, also of Maiden. I am further indebted to the latter 

 gentleman for the above data, all of which I have compiled from letters 

 written by him to Mr. Walter Deane in 1907, and from one addressed to me 

 personally, that has come within the past week. 



It would perhaps be not wholly unreasonable to maintain that the record 

 just given entitles the Whimbrel to a place in New England lists; for the 

 bird to which it relates had apparently flown unaided to within six hundred 

 miles of the sea coast of New Hampshire, in about the latitude of Ports- 

 mouth, and similar instances of "casual occurrences" have been accepted 

 on no better evidence than this. In any case the specimen furnishes a 

 definite and perfectly satisfactory North American record of a European 

 species which, if I am not mistaken in my recollection, has been found pre- 

 viously on this side of the Atlantic only in Greenland, where it is said to 

 have been taken a dozen times or more. — William Brewster, Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo). — Mr. Rudolph Borcherdt, the 

 pioneer taxidermist of Denver, informs me that in the fall of 1868 he killed 

 three Wild Turkeys, out of a flock of twenty-five or thirty, in the oak 

 brush in what is known as the Oak Hills, about 6 miles above the mouth 

 of Plum Creek, which empties into the Platte River, south of Denver. 

 The remaining members of the flock were, one by one, killed by the Indians. 

 These birds had frequented this locality for two or three years previous. 

 He states also that these were the last and only Wild Turkeys that he ever 

 heard of within a good many miles of Denver. — A. H. Felger, Denver, Colo. 



Capture of a Bald Eagle near Chicago, 111. — On January 10, 1909, we 

 shot an immature Bald Eagle (Haliceetus leucocephalus) on the shore of 

 Lake Michigan at Glencoe, Illinois. The bird was flying low over the ice 

 that piles up along the beach. — Thorne C. Taylor, Hubbard Woods, 

 and Walter T. Fisher, Chicago, III. 



The Prairie Falcon (Falco mexicanus) in Western Minnesota. — A speci- 

 men of this falcon was taken Sept. 11, 1894, in Traverse County, Minnesota, 



