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been feeding on a dead sheep. The farmer — a Mr. Clark — finding that 

 there clung to the bird an odor not incompatible with its feeding habits, 

 had consigned his prize to the furrow where the plowshare would shortly 

 have buried it. From this position Mr. Crandall, with prompt and com- 

 mendable collecting zeal, rescued the specimen and sent it to a New York 

 taxidermist (Murgatroyd) for mounting. Mr. Crandall still has the 

 mounted skin in his possession, and, at his home, the writer recently had 

 the pleasure of examining it. 



Nyctea nyctea. Snowy Owl. Mr. Peavey has kindly informed me, and 

 has permitted me to record the fact, that he took a very white specimen of 

 this species on the shore of Flatlands Bay on Feb. 19, 1909. This is a 

 rather later date of occurrence of this species than any previous ones 

 which I have. 



Acantbis linaiia. Redpoll. It may be worthy of note that Redpolls 

 occurred again on Long Island this winter, although, apparently, less 

 abundantly than last. Though several were seen by others, but a single 

 individual came under my direct observation. It was seen feeding on the 

 ground, among a number of Pine Siskins in Prospect Park on Jan. 30, 1909. 



Dendroica palmarum. Palm Warbler. A specimen of this warbler 

 was taken by the writer on Rockaway Beach, Sept. 26, 1908. It was 

 found among the sand dunes on the bay side of the beach on the date men- 

 tioned, where numbers of Savannah and other sparrows were also found. 

 Like them it seemed much at home in this open, unsheltered locality. Here 

 the sand is but scantily covered, the sea-side golden-rod at this season being 

 the most conspicuous of the sea-side flora. Thompson, in his 'Birds of 

 Manitoba,' mentions finding this bird, during migrations, far from any 

 wooded land, and Chapman refers to the avoidance of trees by the eastern 

 subspecies, hypochrysea, in his ' Birds of Eastern North America.' Since 

 the autumn of 1895, when it was met with repeatedly, as stated in 'The 

 Auk' (XIX, 1902, p. 148), it has not been again met with until this autumn 

 (of 1908). — William C. Braislin, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



