Ge?ieral Notes. 
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Lobipes hyperboreus at 9500 feet. — I was greatly surprised on 
May 22 by the appearance of a friend with six Northern Phalaropes ( Lo - 
bipes hyperboreus) in his hands. They were killed by flying against the 
telegraph wires. Unless the flock turned back and retraced 50 miles of 
their journey, in migrating further north, they would be forced to cross 
the range at an elevation of over 12,000 feet, where we may expect to hear 
from the bird some day. 
I thought birds were only killed in this manner when the wires were on 
a plane with their' eyes. Such was not the case with these birds, as one 
had a wing completely torn off, two others were cut open longitudinally 
on the breast, and the rest were bruised on breast and neck, but none on 
the head at all. — Frank M. Drew, Howardsville , Col. 
Breeding of Barrow's Golden-eye in Lower Canada. — During 
the middle of July last (July 11-19, 1881) I several times came across a fe- 
male, with several young, of Barrow’s Golden Eye ( Clangula islandica ) 
in the Godbout River, about a mile above its mouth. Mr. N. A. Comeau 
showed me skins of the adults of both sexes that he had taken here, and 
assured me that the species breeds regularly in this region. The Godbout 
River empties into the St. Lawrence, from the north, six miles west of 
Pt. de Monte which guards the mouth of the Gulf on that side. The place 
falls a trifle short of 50° north latitude. Dr. Coues says (Birds of the 
Northwest, p. 577) “It is the most northerly species of the genus, having 
apparently a circumpolar distribution, breeding only (?) in high lati- 
tudes.” etc. — C. Hart Merriam, M. D., Locust Grove , New York. 
Notes on a few Maine Birds. — Corvus corax. Raven. — These birds 
are frequently seen about the islands on the Maine coast, to the west of 
Penobscot Bay, particularly on Isle au Haut, Duck Islands, Cranberry 
Islands, and other points to the westward, but so far as I can ascertain 
they have not been found breeding on our coast east of Grand Menan. 
At that place, however, Mr. George A. Boardman has found them nesting 
on the high cliffs. 
On May 5 of this year (1881) I received two Raven’s eggs, which were 
taken from a nest on Duck Island about the last of April. Both birds 
were shot down, but were not secured. The nest was placed in the top of 
a spruce tree , and described as a very bulky affair, built of sticks and lined 
with moss, cow’s hair,, and wool. It contained three eggs at that time. 
Several of these birds were poisoned on Isle au Haut in the winter of 
1879-80 by a Mr. Curran who was using meat poisoned with strychnine 
to kill foxes. The inhabitants assert that they breed on that island, and 
that they kill lambs by alighting on them and picking out their eyes. 
Cymochorea leucorrhoa. Leach’s Petrel.— During a visit to the 
coast last June in search of ornithological and oological specimens I went 
to a well-known breeding ground of Leach’s Petrel. We found the birds 
breeding by hundreds and out of some fifty burrows that we dug out, all 
but two or three contained a single bird sitting on its egg. One burrow 
