62 General Notes. 



4. Ardea egretta. Grkat White Egrkt. — A specimen was shot, 

 early in September, 1870, on a broad marshy flat a short distance north of 

 this village, Avhere the Croton River joins the Hudson. The bird was 

 taken to Dr. Fisher, but the warm weather spoiled it before it was pre- 

 served. 



5. Graculus dilophus. Double- crested Cormorant. — On 

 June 22, 187G, a specimen was found in a fyke in the Croton River. 

 It must have dived after a 6sh, and getting entangled in the netting was 

 drowneJ. Mr. George Ayles got it from the fisherman, and gave it to me. 

 It was a male. — A..K. Fisher, Sinr/ Sing, N. Y. 



OCCURREXCE OF BiRDS RARE TO THE ViCINITY OF COLUMBUS, O. 



1. Loxia curvirostra. Red Crossbill. — On the 18th of June last 

 Mr. Charles Ilinman killed one of these birds out of a flock of eight or ten 

 which visited the coniferous trees in his garden in this city. The speci- 

 men which came into my possession by the kindness of Mr. Oliver Davie 

 was a male, not in full plumage. I have since learned that the Red 

 Crossbill has remained during the season in the vicinity of Cleveland in 

 considerable numbers, and it is reported to have nested there. 



2. Elanoides forficatus. Swallow-tailed Kite. — This bird, which 

 has not been recorded from Ohio for over twenty-five years, was taken in 

 Licking County, near the town of Pataskala, seventeen miles east of 

 Columbus, August 22, 1878. It is reported to have been killed when in 

 the act of pursuing chickens. On being brought to the town of Pataskala, 

 it excited considerable remark, no one being acquainted witli it. It was 

 finally decided to be a Bald Eagle escaped from Barnum's Show, and 

 thrown away. It was discovered and identified by Rev. C. II. Permort, 

 who carefully removed the skin from the decomposed remains and pre- 

 sented it to me. It is in high plumage, the dark area iridescent with pur- 

 ple-bronze and green. 



3. Strix flammea var. americana. Barn Owl. — Mr. Oliver Davie of 

 this city has a specimen of this bird killed in this immediate vicinity 

 November 2, 1878. This is its northernmost appearance in the interior, 

 except on one occasion recorded by Mr. E. W. Nelson (Bull. Ess. Ins., 

 187G, Vol. Vlir, p. IIG) of two taken in a trap near Chicago. Dr. How- 

 ard E. Jones informs me that he killed a specimen twenty-five miles south 

 of Columbus, near Circleville, in the summer of 1873, which is now in the 

 Museum of Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y. Mr. Dury reports several 

 specimens taken in the vicinity of Cincinnati. 



4. Cupidonia cupido. Pinn.\ted Grouse. — A male Pinnated 

 Grouse was killed by a gunner, seven miles west of Columbus, November 

 16, 18G8. By the kindness of Mr. A. Stevenson, who puichased the bird, 

 the skin is now in my collection. As long ago as 1838 Dr. Kirtland wrote 

 (Ohio Geolog. Surv.) : '• The Prairie Hen is found in considerable num- 

 bers in the northwestern parts of the State." It is iiow very rare, though 



