"^"'gg^^] General Notes. 6 1 



Slide and the other on the Table Land at an altitude of a few hundred feet 

 lower than the top of the highest peak (5,215 feet). Unfortunately I was 

 unable to obtain a specimen, but a familiarity with the song of this bii'd 

 acquired in the White Mountains and during the migrations, leaves no 

 doubt whatever in my own mind of the identification. This subspecies 

 has never been reported from Maine, I believe, though it is included in 

 the 'hypothetical' list in Mr. Ora W. Knight's recent list of Maine birds. 

 The only other birds nofed on the mountain which I did not also find in 

 the lowlands about there were Dendroica striata, which were common 

 along the Slide, and Dendragapus canadensis., one female of which I 

 observed on the Slide. Ktaadn affords but little cover for birds, the upper 

 three thousand feet being for the most part very steep and rocky, giving 

 no chance for trees. The trees along the Slide are almost entirely decidu- 

 ous, and no coniferous woods were to be seen at anj' height except those in 

 the great South Basin on the northeast side of the mountain, about 2300 feet 

 below the highest summit or about 3000 feet above sea-level. It is quite 

 possible that these Basin woods may have contained some more northern 

 forms, but I was unable to visit them. Some one should go there in the 

 breeding season. The Basin is best visited from the east side. The scrub 

 fir on the Table Land harbored Tiirdus alicice bicknelli and Zonotrichia 

 albicollis, and doubtless y««ct> /lyemalis too, but it is too low to make very 

 good cover. — Francis H. Allen, West Roxbiiry, Mass. 



Two Species new to the List of Birds found in West Virginia. — 

 Chuck-will's-widow (^Antrostomiis caroli?iensis), $ adult. Picked up 

 in a grove, apparently benumbed by cold, by Mr. John H. Crawford, near 

 Lewisburg, Greenbrier Co., W. Va., on April 23, 1897. Now in Mr. Craw- 

 ford's possession. 



Swainson's Hawk {Buteo szvainsoni), $ adult. Shot by Mr. M. ^L 

 Collins four miles north of White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., September 16, 

 1897. This hawk is now being mounted for Mr. M. M. Collins of Cov- 

 ington, Va. 



I believe that, heretofore, Nashville, Tenn., has been about the farthest 

 north, in the interior, from which Antrostomus cdroli>iensis has been 

 recorded. — Thaddeus Surber, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. 



Lake Michigan Notes. — Larus glaucus. Glaucous Gull. — While 

 walking along the beach of Lake Michigan, east of Millers, Indiana, 

 August 8, 1897, in company with Mr. J. G. Parker, Jr., and jSIr. Fred 

 Hilgard, I had the good fortune to take a fine female of this species. It 

 is in the pure white plumage of the young of the second year ; it is 

 immaculate, with the exception of a few feathers on the wing-coverts, 

 ■which are of a pale brownish gray. I believe this is the first record of 

 capture for the Calumet Region and Indiana. 



