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Pigeons for ten years, ami tlius ,L;ive llieni a chance to multiply ami per- 

 haps regain, in a measure, tlieir former ahiindance. 



In ' Forest and Stream,' of Sept. 25, 1897, is a short notice of 'Wild 

 Pigeons in Nehraslca,' by 'W. F. R.' Through the kindness of the editor 

 he placed me in correspondence with tlie observer, W. F. Rightmire, to 

 whom I am indebted for the following details given in his letter of Nov. 

 5, 1897: "I was driving along the highway north of Cook, Johnson 

 County, Nebraska, on August 17, 1S97. I came to the timber skirting 

 the head stream of the Nemaha River, a tract of some forty acres of 

 woodland lying along the course of the stream, upon both banks of the 

 same, and there feeding on the ground or perched upon the trees were 

 the Passenger Pigeons I wrote the note about. The flock contained 

 seventy-five to one hundred birds. I did not f^-ighten them, but as I 

 drove along the road the feeding birds flew up and joined the others, 

 and as soon as I had passed by they returned to the ground and con- 

 tinued feeding. While I revisited the same locality, I failed to find the 

 Pigeons. I am a native of Tompkins County, N. Y., and have often 

 killed Wild Pigeons in their flights while a boy on the farm, helped to 

 net them, and have hunted them in Pennsylvania, so that I readily 

 knew the birds in question the moment I saw them." I will here take 

 occasion to state that in my record of the Missouri flock (Auk, July, 

 1897, p. 316) the date on which they were seen (December 17, 1896) was, 

 through error, omitted. — Ruthven Deane, Chicago, III. 



Geotrygon chrysia again at Key West. — The last record of the occur- 

 rence of the Key West Qiiail Dove in Florida was that by Mr. Scott 

 (Auk, VII, No. I, Jan., 1890, p. 90), of a male (now in my collection) 

 taken by Mr. Atkins at Key West, September 15, 1S89. During the past 

 autumn Mr. Atkins secured two more specimens, which have also come 

 into my possession. Both are females and both were taken on Key West, 

 one by Thomas Moore, at Salt Pond Hammock, near the east end of the 

 island, October 20, 1897, the other by James Moore, "quite near the 

 town," November 12, 1897. They Avere shot on the ground in rather 

 dense woods. Mr. Atkins received them in the flesh and skinned and 

 sexed them. — William Brewster, Cambridge, Mass. 



The California Vulture in Santa Barbara Co., Cal. — On Feb. 21, 1898, 

 the Zoological Department of Leland Stanford University received a 

 specimen of Pseudogryphus californianus, in the flesh. It was presented 

 by the collector, Mr. Holton Webb, who secured it at Lampoc, a small 

 town near the coast, between the Santa Ynes Mts. and the Santa Ynes 

 River, in Santa Barbara Co. The specimen is in excellent condition, and 

 will make a fine specimen, though apparently not full grown, as it meas- 

 ures but 7 ft. 8 in. in extent. — Robert B. McLain, Stanford University, 

 Cal. 



