i886.| General Notes. I^I 



Forest and Stream, XXV, Nos. 9-22. 



Hoosier Naturalist, I, Nos. 4, 5, Dec. 1885. 



Journal Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. VIII, No. 3, Oct. 1885. 



Kansas City Review, IX, Nos. 2-5, Sept.-Dec. 1S85. 



Michigan Sportsman's Association, Seventh Annual of the. 8vo., pp. 

 128, Grand Rapids, Mich., 1885. 



Naturalist, The. A Journ. Nat. Hist, for the North of England, Nos. 

 123-125, Oct.-Dec. 1885. 



Ornis, Internat. Zeitsch. fiir die gesammte Orn. I, Heft i, 1885. 



Ornithologist and Oologist, X, Nos. 10-12, Oct.-Dec. 1885. 



Proceedingi Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Pt. II, 1885. 



Proceedings U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII, Nos. 26-38, 1S85. 



Random Notes on Natural History, II, Nos. 10-12, 1885. 



Young Ornithologist, I, No. 5, Sept. 1885. 



Zeitschrift fur die gesammte Ornithologie, II, Heft 3, 1885. 



Zoologist, IX. Nos. 106-10S, Oct.-Dec. 1885. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The Bridled Tern {Sterna ancetketus) in South Carolina. — Mr. Walter 

 Hoxie lias sent me a specimen of this species shot August 25, 1885 (im- 

 mediately after a hurricane), at Frogmore, South Carolina. It is a young 

 male in fresh and very perfect autumnal plumage. The occurrence of 

 this species in the United States has been previously open to some doubt, 

 although Mr. George N. Lawrence has a specimen (formerly in the 

 Audubon collection) which is labelled as having been taken in Florida. — 

 William Brewstrr. Cambridge. Ma:>$. 



The Wild Swan in Prince Edward Island. — -For several days previous 

 to the 7th of October Mr. Wm. Stead, of Wlieatly River, Prince Edward 

 Island, observed a large bird in company with his flock of Geese. After 

 making seveiul unsuccessful attempts at capturing the stranger, he finally 

 shot it. It proved to be an American Wild Swan, measuring 6 feet 6 in- 

 ches in extent, and 4 feet g inches from tip of bill to toe. 



Tbis is the first recorded instance of the capture of a Wild Swan in 

 Prince Edward Island, and shows how rarely these birds, though breed- 

 ing in the Far North of Hudson's Bay, visit in their migrations the ex- 

 treme east of the Continent. — F. Bain. North River, Prince Edxvard 

 Island. 



Sandpipers at Sea. — On May 6 of this vear. I was a passenger on the 

 steamer "St. Laurent,' which sailed from New York at 10 a.m., with a 

 light east wind and cleai- weatiier. May 7 and 8 the wind held east. 



