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within six inches of my hand when collecting eggs. I shiill try an'd get 

 more specimens of the bird I sent yon [No. 3237. W. E. D. 8. Register; 

 see Auk, VI, p. 317] hut they are not very plentiful here and are hard to 

 f,,u)."— VV. E. D. Scott, j;S WiUiani Street, Ne-v Torh City. 



Phalaropus lobatus off Scituate, Mass. — On yVugust 30, 1S90, I made 

 my first acquaintance with the Northern Phalarope. As my friend Mr. 

 Marcus Barber and myself were returning from a trip to the Gurnet, 

 Plymouth Harbor, in my sail-boat, when oft' Fourth Cliff Life Saving 

 Station, we observed what we at first supposed was a large flock of Sand- 

 pipers, some two hundred or more, flying to and fro from shore, 'and 

 were surprised to see them settle on the water. Heading the boat for 

 them, we soon came within gunshot, and secured eight as they rose, 

 they being so scattered as not to oftera good shot. On picking ihem up, 

 I at once recognized them as one of the Phalaropes. We watched this 

 flock pass from view to southward. Leaving my friend soon after at the 

 Cove, I made sail for Scituate Harbor, about a mile distant; but had not 

 been long underway when the boat was in the centre of a second flock as 

 large as the first, giving me a fine opportunity to watch the bright eyed 

 little birds, as they rode up and down on the light sea that was running. 

 These finallv took wing, but had not passed from sight before a third 

 flock nearly as large showed up over the bow; making in all between five 

 and six hundred birds seen within an hour's time. The last were nearly 

 opposite the Harbor, in which I soon dropped anchor. The birds secured 

 proved to be all young of both sexes, except one, an adult female, but no 

 two were alike in plumage. Taking into consideration Mr. W. A. Jef- 

 fries' account of "Phalaropes at Swampscott' (Auk, Jan. 1S91, p. 112), and 

 the statement made by my friend Mr. Barber, who in ten years' ser- 

 vice along shore "never saw anything like it before," the flight of Phala- 

 ropes along our shore last fall must have been a remarkable one. The 

 wind at the time was blowing a fair north west breeze. — H. D. Eastman, 

 Fra m iugh a m , 2\/a ss . 



The Wild Pigeon (Bctopi'stes migratoritis') on the Pacific Coast. — I was 

 recently informed by a correspondent, who edits a small weekly journal 

 published in Philadelphia, that Mr. Caleb S. Cope of West Chester, Pa., 

 had seen Wild Pigeons in considerable'numbers in "Washington Terri- 

 tory." 



This information had been elicited in response to the I'epublication in 

 the above mentioned journal of Mr. Brewster's article in 'The Auk' of Octo- 

 ber 1889, on the 'Present Status of the Wild Pigeon as a bird of the United 

 States.' A gentleman living in Lycoming Co., Pa., who used to trap 

 Wild Pigeons many years ago, informed my friend that it was commonly 

 understood among those in the business that the Pigeons had gone to the 

 far West and British Columbia on account of their persecution in the east' 

 ern and central portions of the United States. 



