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stream for several miles after leaving the mountains. Watching the Violet- 
green and Crescent Swallows, which were abundant, for some time, I was 
about to leave, when I noticed a Swift evidently flying directly towards 
me. It passed only a few yards overhead, displaying at the same time 
the extensive white throat-patch of Cypselus saxatilis. Further search 
revealed some half a dozen altogether. A small opening in the rock which 
a bird of this species was seen to enter and reappear from several times, 
I approached, near enough to hear a vigorous twittering at each visit of 
the parent bird, from which I presume the young were well advanced. 
This is the only species of Swift I* have yet seen in the Territory. — R. S. 
Williams, Gold Run , M. T. 
Capture of the Golden Eagle (Aquila ckrysaetus canadensis ) near 
Columbus, O. — December 13, 1881, I received a male specimen of the 
Golden Eagle, killed five miles west of the city. 
This bird, according to information which I have gathered from various 
sources, had caused the farmers in the neighborhood in which it was killed 
a great amount of annoyance. A reward was offered, and published in 
our city papers, for the capture of a ’‘Bald Eagle” (as they called it), 
which had killed several young calves. By further inquiry I ascertained 
that the bird was seen eating at two of the calves, but was not seen in 
the act of killing them. — Oliver Davie, Columbus , O. 
The Little Blue Heron in Maine. — During the summer of 1881 a 
small white Heron took up his abode in a dense swamp bordeiing the 
eastern side of Scarborough Marsh. He foraged regularly about the neigh- 
boring ponds and rivers, and before autumn had been seen and unsuccess- 
fully shot at by many covetous gunners. In September, however, he fell 
captive to the wiles of Mr. Winslow Pilsbury, and now reposes in the 
cabinet of Mr. Chas. H. Chandler, of Cambridge, Mass. Before writing 
Mr. Chandler, to ascertain the species represented by his specimen, I 
learned that Mr. Henry A. Purdie* had seen the bird and pronounced it 
the Little Blue Heron ( Florida coerulea'). No previous instance of its 
occurrence in Maine is on record. — Nathan Clifford Brown, Port- 
land ', Maine. 
Baird’s Sandpiper on Long Island, N. Y. — a Correction. — In the 
Bulletin for January, 1882, p. 60, it is stated that the record of a specimen 
of this species from Long Island is apparently its first from any point 
south of New' England. A note to the editors from Dr. E. A. Mearns 
calls attention to a previous record of the species for Long Island in an 
article by Newbold T. Lawrence, entitled “Notes on Several Rare Birds 
Taken on Long Island, N. Y.,” published in “Forest and Stream,” Vol. 
X, No, 13, p. 235, May 2, 1878, as follows : — 
* It should be stated that Mr. Purdie, with characteristic courtesy, declines to publish 
this note as, after discovering his prior knowledge of the specimen, I requested him to do. 
