Vol. XIV 
1897 
General Notes. 224 
there and had found bones of good sized mammals at the foot of the 
cliffs. 
On May 15, 1896, I was in camp within a few miles of these cliffs (and 
intended renewing my visit), when Charles Haskell, a well known col- 
lector in the employment of Dr. W. L. Ralph, stopped over night with 
me on his way to try and collect this Eagle’s nest. Notwithstanding that 
he urged me to go with him I allowed a previous arrangement for the day 
to prevent, and he departed with his guide at daylight on the 16th. He 
was back at my camp by late afternoon with a beautiful set of three eggs 
of the Duck Hawk. He found the nest thirty feet below the top of the 
cliff, which is several hundred feet high, and he was let down with a rope 
from above. He stated that the bird was very bold and that he had to 
keep her off with a short club. 
Whether he collected the famous ‘ Eagle’s nest’ or not, is yet to be 
discovered but the Hawk is a new record for this district, and I believe 
the nest is a new record for the State of New York. The three beauti- 
ful eggs are before this with Dr. Ralph’s other contributions in the 
Smithsonian at Washington. 
Ammodramus savannarum passerinus. — A specimen of this bird was 
killed on the hills south of Oneida Village, July 2, 1895, by Messrs. Wm. 
R. Maxon and T. F. Wilcox. 
In addition to the above new records the following are worth recording. 
Ardetta exilis. — Mr. Wm. R. Maxon‘of Oneida informs me that a gen- 
tleman of that village killed two of these birds in August, 1892, a few 
miles west of that place, and also says that since then he has several 
times seen these birds in the same locality. We had but one previous 
record of this bird. 
Nycticorax nycticorax nzvius.— Mr. Maxon has a full plumaged 
male of this species which was taken in a steel trap set for muskrats, 
near Higginsville. Mr. Klock, an Oneida taxerdermist, reports several 
females (or young ?), from Oneida Lake. 
Cathartes aura.— A specimen of this bird was winged near Maynard, 
in this county, in August, 1896, and is still kept alive in this city. Our 
second record. 
Aquila chrysaétos.— A Golden Eagle was shot, wounded and captured 
at Clinton early in May, 1896, and was kept in captivity for some time. 
Our second record. —EGBERT BaGG, Utica. N. Y. 
Lake Michigan Bird Notes.-—Tringa canutus. — While collecting on 
the branch of Lake Michigan at Millers, Indiana, August 24, 1896, I 
obtained a juvenile male of this species which is in the gray and white 
plumage. It was in company with a large flock of Sanderlings. 
Tringa bairdii.—I took one specimen of this bird, and observed several 
others. It was surprising how difficult I found it to approach within gun 
‘shot of the beach birds; they would keep together in a large flock, and it 
required a long trip along shore to obtain the specimens I wished for. 
