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aa. Throat mostly black; under surface of body strongly ochraceous- 

 buff posteriorly. 

 b. Coloration pallid; underparts slightly spotted with black 



Heleodytes brunneicapi'llus anthonyi. 

 bb. Coloration dark ; underparts heavily spotted with black. 



c. Back broadly striped with white; intermediate rectrices plainly 

 barred with white. . • Heleodytes brunneicafilltis bryanti. 



cc. Back narrowly striped with white, the stripes being broken up 

 into spots; intermediate rectrices nearly all black, or slightly spot- 

 ted with white . . • Heleodytes brunfieicapillus couesi. 



NOTES CONCERNING CERTAIN BIRDS OF 

 LONG ISLAND. 



BY WILLIAM C. BRAISLIN, M. D. 



Nettion crecca. A number of years has passed since the publication of 

 any record of the European Teal on Long Island. This species is in- 

 cluded in Lawrence's ' List' (1866), but is not mentioned by Giraud in his 

 'Birds of Long Island' (1844). I am able to record two additional speci- 

 mens for Long Island. These, together with one American Green- 

 winged Teal, were shot by Mr. Sherman Smith of Merrick, on a small 

 fresh-water pond at that place, about a week before Christmas, 1900. 

 These birds were mounted by Mr. Albert Lott, a taxidermist of Freeport ; 

 one of them I found recently in Mr. Willis's shop at the latter place and 

 traced the history of the specimens as related, finding the second specimen 

 at Mr. Lett's house. Both are males in fine plumage. They are now in 

 my collection of Long Island birds. 



Ardea egretta. Through the courtesy of Capt. James G. Scott, keeper 

 of the Montauk Point Light, I am enabled to record the second specimen 

 of the American Egret which has come under my observation from Long 

 Island (Auk, XVII, 1900, p. 67). Capt. Scott informs me that he shot the 

 bird on July 23, 1900, on Oyster Pond Beach (Montauk). The mounted 

 skin is now in the possession of Capt. Jesse B. Edwards, keeper of the 

 Amao-ansett Life Saving Station, to whom I am indebted for measurements 

 and other particulars concerning the bird. The following data are noted : 

 Length, 39^ inches (dry skin); length of bill, 4^ inches. 



Ardea coerulea, not A. candidissima : A Correction. In 'The Auk,' 

 Vol. XVII, Jan., 1900, p. 69, I recorded Ardea candidissima from Long 

 Island. The record was due to an error in identification, and should refer 

 to A. coerulea. The two birds to which reference was made were imma- 



