Vol. XIXT 

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General Notes. 



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to be seen. It had about six large dragon flies in its stomach. This 

 tern and the phal^rope are now in my collection. —G. Eifrig, Cumber- 

 land, Md. 



Second Record of the Purple Gallinule (lonornis martinica) in Illinois.— 

 I am indebted to Mr. Marvin Hughitt, Jr., for information regarding the 

 capture of a specimen which is rare for this State. The bird was killed 

 by Mr. T. G. Winders while snipe shooting near Coal City, Grundy Co., 

 111., on April 24, 1900. It is mounted and now in possession of Mr. Hugh- 

 itt!' The only previous record for the State, that I am aware of, was given 

 by Mr. E. W. Nelson in his ' Birds of Northeastern Illinois' (Bull. Essex 

 Inst., VIII, April, 1877, pp. 90-155), based on a specimen taken by Mr. 

 C. N. Holden, Jr., near Chicago. Mr. Holden has recently informed me 

 that this bird was taken by Mr. R. Borcherdt of Lake View, a suburb of 

 Chicago. — RuTHVEN Deane, Chicago, III. 



Cory-s Bittern.- Since the publication of 'The Standing of Ardefta 

 neoxena; by Mr. Frank M. Chapman, in ' The Auk,' Vol. XIII (pp. 11-19), 

 nine more specimens, six of which are unrecorded, have been taken at 

 Toronto ; and Mr. Ames and myself have recorded the finding of the eggs 

 (Auk, Vol. XVIII, p. 106). I believe Toronto still remains the only 

 Canadian place of record for this very interesting bird, and as seven 

 Toronto birds had been recorded when Mr. Chapman published his paper, 

 I have numbered the records given in the following table froin eight on- 

 wards: 



Toronto Records of Ardctta neoxena, 1S96-1900. 



No. 



9 

 10 

 II 

 12 



13 

 14 

 15 

 16 



Collection of 



Locality. 



W. Rothschild 

 J. H. Ames (') 

 Geo. Pierce (i) 

 Manly Hardy 

 J. H. Fleming (^) 

 C. K. Rogers 

 Prov. Mus., Toronto 



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J. H. Fleming (^) 



Toronto 



Sex. 



Aug. 17, 1896 

 May 14, 1897 

 June 30, 1897 

 June 8, 1898 

 June 15, 1898 

 Aug. 3, 1898 

 Aug. 7, 1899 

 Aug. 14, 1899 

 Sept. 8, 1899 



Collector. 



A. Dey 

 Geo. Pierce 



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A. Dey 

 Geo. Pierce 

 C. K. Rogers 

 A. Dey 

 A. Dey 

 J. Tymon 



Nos. 8 and II were sexed by the same man, and as both were for some 

 time in my keeping I was able to compare them with others in my own 

 collection, and saw no reason to doubt that they were adult males. No. 8 

 belonged to Mr. O. Spanner, and I was able to secure it for the Hon. 



1 Recorded by Mr. Ames in Auk, Vol. XIV, p. 411. 



2 Recorded by Mr. Ames and myself m Auk, Vol. XVIII, p. 106. 



3 Now in coll. of British Museum. 



