THE IOWA ORNITHOLOGIST 



General Notes of Interes.. 



Two Rake Binds ix Makskall 

 Co., Ia. — I saw the first Mocking- 

 Bird I ever observed in this Co,, 

 on Sept. 3, 1894. Dr. Coues sa5-s 

 "rare north of 38^, althoug-h 

 known to reach 42 ° ." Tlie kit- 

 itude here is a Mttle above 42 ° . 

 I shot the bird and made the iden- 

 tification positive. He was in a 

 Vv"ikiiut tree in company with 

 :ibouf thirty King-birds, that I 

 svippose were preparing- for their 

 niig-ration South. 



On October 10, '94 I saw a 

 SwaHow-tailed Kite, apparently 

 on* its migration. This is the 

 (>nly bird of this species I have 

 seen this season. There was one 

 killed near here last year. — A. P. 

 Godley. 



The Saw-whet Owl. — I should 

 like to announce the capture of 

 two Saw-whet Owls. Taken a.t 

 Iowa Cit}', la., by myself on Oct. 

 16 and 26, 1894. These are the 

 first records for Johnson Co. -Paul 

 Bartsch. 



On November 3, 1894, while 

 1 'Ut in the woods near Perry, la. 

 I was attracted by a number of 

 Blue Jays that were making a 

 g-reat racket, and upon investiga- 

 tion found that they were making 



life miserable for a little Nyciahx 

 acadica. I did not see it until it 

 flew, but foll;)wing in the direc- 

 tion it went, 1 happened to see it, 

 then a load of 12s from my little 

 Stephen's turned him over but did 

 not drop him, for he hung with 

 with his clav/s securely wrapped 

 around the small limb. After a 

 nice little climb of tv^renty feet 

 up a shell-bark hickory, he Vv-as 

 secured. His stomach was per- 

 fecth' empt}" although this ^yas 

 in the morning. — J. Eugene Law. 



The Red-headed Woodpeckek. 

 —Mr. A. P. Godley, of LcGrand, 

 la, writes of seeing a specimen of 

 this species on March 19, 1894, he 

 thinks it surely must have been 

 lost, as he did not see Master 

 Red-head again until in May. 



' Two Records from Keokuk. 

 loVv^A.. — On the 16th of Decem- 

 ber 1892, I shot a specimen of 

 Jimco Jiycmalis sJiiifcldti on the 

 Illinois shore, just opposite the 

 city. It was with several other 

 Juncos, all, as far as I could tell, 

 of thi common A^arietv. 



On the 10th of November, 1894, 

 a boy brought miViSoinatcria spcc- 

 tabiUs that he had shot on the 

 Mississippi. It was a male in 

 brown plumag-e, but showing a 

 few white and black feathers. 

 The stomach contained nothing- 

 but fine quartz gravel. — Wm. E. 

 Praeger, Keokuk, Iowa. — Auk. 



