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General Notes. [January 



When last heard from, towards the beginning of November, the birds 

 were still with the herrings, and were found very abundantly oft" Gay 

 Head. Menemsha Bight, Cuttyhunk, and elsewhere, both in Vineyard 

 Sound and Buzzard's Bay. 



The Jaegers were shyer, and were generally killed singly as they flew 

 past. Thev did not seem to associate closely with the Shearwaters. — 

 S. F. Baird. Washington, D. C. 



Phcenicopterus ruber as a South Carolina Bird. — In ' The Auk' for July. 

 1886. Mr. Loomis gave a short account of the capture of this species near 

 Georgetown. As 1 am able to give a full account of its capture, 1 trust that 

 the following will prove acceptable. Learning from my friend Dr. G. E. 

 Manigault, that W. St. Julien Mazyck. Esq., captured the bird, I wrote to 

 him for a full account of its capture. Mr. Mazyck very kindly wrote me, 

 under date of November 22, as follows : — "The fall of the year 1S76 was 

 stormv, with much rain. Somewhere between the toth and 16th of Sep- 

 tember there was a gale of wind. A day or so after the gale, Mr. B. H. 

 Ward observed a large, strange bird on De Bardien Island, which he deter- 

 mined to watch and make an effort to capture. Inadvertently mention- 

 ing what he had seen, one of his neighbors the next day killed the bird, 

 and brought it to Paw ley Island, when I identified it as the Flamingo. 



" That night, several hours after it was killed, I skinned such parts as I 

 judged would be acceptable to Dr. Manigault. The legs and other long 

 bones were badly shattered by the turkey shot, and with no experience I 

 made a poor job of the bird. The heat and moisture of the weather soft- 

 ened it so much. Dr. Manigault. wrote, that he could do nothing with it. 

 He. however, identified it as a young male. 



■•The bird was evidently lost in the storm and driven to this shore, 

 where he remained four or five days before being killed." — Arthur T. 

 Wayne, Charleston, S. C. 



Occurrence of the Florida Gallinule at Springfield, Mass. — A Florida 

 Gallinule (Gallinula gafeata) was taken October 1, 18S4, at a point on the 

 Connecticut River about five miles below Springfield. The bird was first 

 noticed in the water close to the bank, in the act of diving. I immediately 

 went to the spot with a dog, who dashed in where the bird disappeared, 

 when it immediately came to the surface and instantly took to wing and 

 was shot. A companion then informed me that it was similar to a bird 

 that he had recently taken. Early in September, 1SS6, I was told that a 

 strange bird, " like a very large Kail," had been seen in the reeds in a set- 

 back, near the mouth of the Agawam River, which enters into the Con- 

 necticut directly opposite this city. On the 14th of September, upon going 

 to this place, I at once succeeded in getting this bird up. but in shooting 

 missed it. It alighted about a hundred yards up the set-back, where, after 

 some search, it arose from some tall grass within a few feet of where I 

 stood and was killed. 



Four days later (September iSth), at very nearly the same place where 



