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stream for several miles after leaving the mountains. Watching the Violet- 

 green and Crescent Swallows, which were abundant, for some time, I was 

 about to leave, when I noticed a Swift evidently flying directly towards 

 me. It passed only a few jards overhead, displaying at the same time 

 the extensive white throat-patch of Cypselus saxatilts. Further search 

 revealed some half a dozen altogether. A small opening in the rock which 

 a bird of this species was seen to enter and reappear from several times, 

 I approached, near enough to hear a vigorous twittering at each visit of 

 the parent bird, from which I presume the joung were well advanced. 

 This is the only species of Swift I have yet seen in the Territory. — R. S. 

 Williams, Gold Rim, M. T. 



Capture of the Golden Eagle {Aquila chrysaetus canadensis') near 

 Columbus, O. — December 13. 1881, I received a male specimen of the 

 Golden Eagle, killed five miles west of the city. 



This bird, according to information which I have gathered from various 

 sources, had caused the farmers in the neighborhood in which it was killed 

 a great amount of annoyance. A reward was offered, and published in 

 our city papers, for the capture of a ••Bald Eagle" (as they called it), 

 which had killed several young calves. By further inquiry I ascertained 

 that the bird was seen eating at two of the calves, but was not seen in 

 the act of killing them. — Oliver Davie, Columbus,, O. 



The Little Blue Heron in Maine. —During the summer of iSSi a 

 small white Heron took up his abode in a dense swamp bordeiing the 

 eastern side of Scarborough Marsh. He foraged regularly about the neigh- 

 boring ponds and rivers, and before autumn had been seen and unsuccess- 

 fully shot at by many covetous gunners. In September, however, he fell 

 captive to the wiles of Mr. Winslow Pilsbury, and now reposes in the 

 cabinet of Mr. Chas. H. Chandler, of Cambridge, Mass. Before writing 

 Mr. Chandler, to ascertain the species represented by his specimen. I 

 learned that Mr. Henry A. Purdie* had seen the bird and pronounced it 

 the Little Blue Heron (^Florida ccerulea). No previous instance of its 

 occurrence in Maine is on record. — Nathan Clifford Brown, Port- 

 land, Maine. 



Baird's Sandpiper on Long Island, N. Y.- — a Correction. — In the 



Bulletin for Januarj', 1S82, p. 60, it is stated that the record of a specimen 

 of this species from Long Island is apparently' its first from anv point 

 south of New England. A note to the editors from Dr.'E. A. Mearns 

 calls attention to a previous record of the species for Long Island in an 

 article by Newbold T. Lawrence, entitled "Notes on Several Rare Birds 

 Taken on Long Island, N. Y.," published in "Forest and Stream," Vol. 

 X. No. 13. p. 235, May 2, 1S78, as follows : — 



* It should be stated that Mr. Purdie, with characteristic courtesy, declines to publish 

 this note as, after discovering his prior knowledge of the specimen, I requested him to do. 



