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General Notes. 
4. Ardea egretta. Great White Egret. — A specimen was shot, 
early in September, 1870, on a broad marshy flat a short distance north of 
this village, where the Croton River joins the Hudson. The bird was 
taken to Dr. Fisher, but the warm weather spoiled it before it was pre- 
served. 
5. Graculus dilophus. Double- crested Cormorant. — On 
June 22, 1876, a specimen was found in a fyke in the Croton River. 
It must have dived after a fish, and getting entangled in the netting was 
drowned. Mr. George Ayles got it from the fisherman, and gave it to me. 
It was a male. — A. K. Fisher, Sing Sing, N. Y. 
Occurrence of Birds rare to the Vicinity of Columbus, 0. 
1. Loxia curvirostra. Red Crossbill. — On the 18th of June last 
Mr. Charles Hinman killed one of these birds out of a flock of eight or ten 
which visited the coniferous trees in his garden in this city. The speci- 
men which came into my possession by the kindness of Mr. Oliver Davie 
was a male, not in full plumage. I have since learned that the Red 
Crossbill has remained during the season in the vicinity of Cleveland in 
considerable numbers, and it is reported to have nested there. 
2. Elanoides forficatus. Swallow-tailed Kite. — This bird, which 
has not been recorded from Ohio for over twenty-five years, was taken in 
Licking County, near the town of Pataskala, seventeen miles east of 
Columbus, August 22, 1878. It is reported to have been killed when in 
the act of pursuing chickens. On being brought to the town of Pataskala, 
it excited considerable remark, no one being acquainted with it. It was 
finally decided to be a Bald Eagle escaped from Barnum’s Show, and 
thrown away. It was discovered and identified by Rev. C. H. Permort, 
who carefully removed the skin from the decomposed remains and pre- 
sented it to me. It is in high plumage, the dark area iridescent with pur- 
ple-bronze and green. 
3. Strix flammea var. americana. Barn Owl. — Mr. Oliver Davie of 
this city has a specimen of this bird killed in this immediate vicinity 
November 2, 1878. This is its northernmost appearance in the interior, 
except on one occasion recorded ,by Mr. E. W. Nelson (Bull. Ess. Ins., 
1876, Vol. VIII, p. 116) of two taken in a trap near Chicago. Dr. How- 
ard E. Jones informs me that he killed a specimen twenty-five miles south 
of Columbus, near Circleville, in the summer of 1873, which is now in the 
Museum of Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y. Mr. Dury reports several 
specimens taken in the vicinity of Cincinnati. 
4. Cupidonia cupido. Pinnated Grouse. — A male Pinnated 
Grouse was killed by a gunner, seven miles west of Columbus, November 
16, 1868. By the kindness of Mr. A. Stevenson, who purchased the bird, 
the skin is now in my collection. As long ago as 1838 Dr. Kirtland wrote 
(Ohio Geolog. Surv.) : “ The Prairie Hen is found in considerable num- 
bers in the northwestern parts of the State.” It is now very rare, though 
