Pomarine Jaeger Capturing a Phalarope.— An interesting account 
of a Pomarine Jaeger capturing and devouring a Phalarope has just been 
presented to me by a friend, Mr. Allan Moses of Grand Manan, N. B. 
Mr. Moses and his family for three generations have been taxidermists 
and students of ornithology and I have always found their observations 
accurate and their accounts reliable. Mr. Moses was fishing several miles 
off shore at the time and apparently there were numerous Northern Phala- 
ropes in the vicinity. He writes: “ I saw something last Friday that I 
never saw or knew anything about before. I saw a Pomarine Jaeger 
catch a phalarope. There was a pair of the jaegers. The female started 
after the phalaropes and chased them a long time. They were too smart 
for her, and after a long chase, she separated out one, and then the male 
gave chase, and in a few minutes with the two chasing the little fellow, 
one caught him within a hundred yards of the vessel; then they both 
lighted in the water and ate him.” 
This letter was dated May 31, and “ last Friday ” would be the twenty- 
sixth, making the date of the observation, May 26, 1911. — Albert W. 
Tuttle, Boston, Mass. 
AOk 28. Oct "1911 p. 
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