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Lobipes hyperboreus at 9 . S oo feet. - 1 was greatly surprised on 

 May 22 by the appearance of a friend with six Northern Phalaropes (lo- 

 bipes hyperboreus) in his hands. They were killed bv flying a-ainst the 

 telegraph wires. Unless the nock turned back and retraced 50 miles of 

 their journey, in migrating further north, they would be forced to cross 

 the range at an elevation of over 12,000 feet, where we may expect to hear 

 from the bird some day. 



I thought birds were only killed in this manner when the wires were on 

 a plane with their eyes. Such was not the case with these birds, as one 

 had a wing completely torn off, two others were cut open longitudinally 

 on the breast, and the rest were bruised on breast and neck, but none on 

 the head at all. — Frank M. Drew, Howardsville, Col. 



Breeding of Barrows Golden-eye in Lower Canada — During 



the middle of July last (July n- IQ , l8 8i) I several times came across a fe- 

 male, with several young, of Barrow's Golden Eve {Cla„gula islandicd) 

 in the Godbout River, about a mile- above its mouth. Mr. N. A Comeau 

 showed me skins of the adults of both sexes that he had taken here and 

 assured me that the species breeds regularly in this region. The Godbout 

 River empties into the St. Lawrence, from the north, six miles west of 

 Pt. de Monte which guards the mouth of the Gulf on that side. The place 

 falls a trifle short of 50" north latitude. Dr. Coues savs (Birds of the 

 Northwest, p. 577) '-It is the most northerly species of the genus, having 

 apparently a circumpolar distribution, breeding only ( ?) in high lati 

 tudes." etc.-C Hart Merriam, M. D.. Locust Grove, New York- 



Notes on a few Maine B IR Ds.-Corvus corax. R A VE N .-These birds 

 are frequently seen about the islands on the Maine coast, to the west of 

 Penobscot Bay, particularly on Isle au Haut, Duck Islands, Cranberry 

 Islands, and other points to the westward, but so far as I can ascertain 

 they have not been found breeding on our coast east of Grand Menan. 

 At hat place however. Mr. George A. Boardman has found them nesting 

 on the high chfts. ° 



On May 5 of this year (1SS1) I received two Raven's eggs, which were 

 taken from a nest on Duck Island about the last of April. Both birds 

 were shot down, but were not secured. The nest was placed in the ton of 

 a spruce tree, and described as a very bulky affair, built of sticks and lined 

 w.th moss, cow s hair, and wool. It contained three eggs at that time. 



Severa of these birds were poisoned on Isle au Haut in the winter of 



o km WeV T r r 7? Wh ° WaS USin * meat P ° isoned wit » Pennine 

 W Til 1 I 1 " hab 1 ltants aSsert that they breed on that island, and 

 that they kill lambs by alighting on them and picking out their eyes 



Cymoohorea leuccrrhoa. Leach's PETREL.-During a visit to the 

 o a we'll V Une J K Se T h ° f ° , - nitholo - i - 1 «d logical specimens I w 



7 u r T e ! dmg gr ° Und ° f LeaCh ' S PetreI " W e found the bird 

 breeding by hundreds and out of some fifty burrows that we dug outal 

 but two or three contained a single bird sitting on its egg . One burrow 



