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Professor J. W. P. Jenks, lie lias kindly written me in substance that tlie 
bird was sent alive from Katalidin Iron-Works (Piscataquis Co., Maine) 
by Mr. C. H. Prouty to liis brother in Providence during December, 18 76. 
it liad caught several liens, and, having pursued one under a barn through 
a small opening, was itself caught in the arms of a man as it came out. 
The Gerfalcon soon died ; the wings were cut off, and the body was 
buried. Nearly a week afterwards a Mr. Adcock saw and picked up the 
wings from a stable lloor, and, recognizing his old English Fa'con, called 
for the body, which he dug up and mounted. Professor Jenks happened 
to see the specimen, and secured it for the University collection. 
I think MacFarlane’s Gerfalcon has not before been known to occur in 
any portion of Eastern North America, nor nt all outside of Arctic North- 
west America. The one now cited will make the third form of Gerfalcon 
known to have been taken in New England. 1 cannot ascertain for a cer- 
tainty that cand leans has yet visited us. Mr. H. G. Vennor records two 
examples at Montreal. The black Labrador bird has so far been the most 
frequent visitor to the Canadas, the Provinces, and the United States. 
I have record of several, one of which, now announced, was shot in Essex 
Co., Mass., a few years since, and is in the collection of the Essex Insti- 
tute. — H. A. Pur die, Newton , Mass. 
Nesting of Butko zoxockrcus in New Mexico. — May 28, 1876, 
I found a nest of Bnteo zonocercus in a very large cottonwood-tree, in 
a grove of the same, in the mouth of a canon of the Gila River, in New 
Mexico, about twenty miles above the Arizona line, I saw the parent fly 
from the nest, and with its mate circle around overhead. One alighted 
on the cliff overhanging the grove, which I succeeded in killing. It 
proved to be the male I had no climbers, and could not then get to the 
nest, but the next day I returned with a rope, and succeeded in getting 
near enough to work my hand up through the nest and reach one egg, 
which was all there Avas. The nest was quite bulky, composed of twigs, 
lined Avith strips of the inner bark of the cottoinvood. 
The egg Avas very near hatching, and in attempting to extract the em.- 
bryo I broke it, and it has since been broken into small pieces. It Avas 
marked with large reddisli-broAvn blotches, irregularly distributed on a 
dirty white ground. I still have the male. This pair are the only HaAvks 
of this species that l am positive I ever saw, although I have seen several 
Hawks here in California that at first I took to be B. zonocercus , but they 
always proved to be very dark plumages of B. sicainsoni. It is about im- 
possible to tell the difference at shooting distance. The latter species is 
very abundant here at times. — F. Stevens, Wilmington, Cal . 
Capture of the Golden Eagle at Gravesend, L. I. — On Octo- 
ber 6, 1877, 1 had the good fortune to procure a male Golden Eagle (Aquila 
chrysaetus ) in this vicinity. He Avas a fine, full-grown specimen, and gave 
the following measurements: length, 32.75 inches ; extent, 78.25; Aving, 
22.50; tail, 14.00. — Frank E. Johnson, Gravesend, L. /. 
