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ing in "the marsh" I was fortunate enough to secure a fine example 

 of the Green Heron (Butorides virescens virescens) and shortly after 

 whilst visiting a farmer in the district I was shown a mounted example of 

 the Black-crowned Night Heron {Nycticorax nycticorax ncevius) which 

 he had shot some eight years ago at Fitch Bay about twelve miles from 

 Hatley. At another house I was shown a mounted male example of the 

 Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides ardicus) which was shot about 

 two years ago in the fall near Massawippi, all these five birds being new 

 to my list. — H. Mousley, Hatley, Que. 



Early Bird Records for the Vicinity of Washington, D. C. — The 



Bulletin of the Proceedings of the National Institute for the Promotion 

 of Science contains numerous records of birds collected near Washington, 

 most of which are the earliest published for the region. Those worth 

 recalling to attention are: Larus eburneus 1 (= Pagophila alba), not other- 

 wise recorded; Fuligula perspicillata (= Oidemia), meeting of February 

 14, 1842, 2 a record sixteen years prior to the earliest cited by Professor 

 W. W. Cooke; Fringilla nivalis (= Plectrophenax) , meeting of March 14, 

 1842, 3 for which there are only two other records, the next in 1886; Thalas- 

 sidroma leachii ( = Oceanodroma leucorhoa) and T. wilsonii ( = Oceanites 

 oceanicus), meeting of September 12, 1842, 4 now known to have been taken 

 the previous month after a violent northeast storm; at the same meeting 

 Puffinus cinereus (probably = P. griseus), the only record for a shearwater 

 for the region; Fuligula glacialis (= Harelda hyemalis), meeting of 

 November 14, 1842, 5 and earlier record by fourteen years than any cited 

 by Professor Cooke; and Ortygometra noveboracensis (= Coturnicops) 

 " said to be the only one ever found in this District, killed on the Potomac 

 River, opposite Washington — From George Washington Custis," meeting 

 of November 13, 1843, 6 an addition to the three records listed by Pro- 

 fessor Cooke, and thirty-six years earlier than the oldest of them. — W. L. 

 McAtee, Washington, D. C. 



1 Second Bull., Meeting of January, 1842, p. 134. 4 Third Bull., p. 251. 



2 Second Bull., p. 148. s Third Bull., p. 262. 



3 Third Bull., p. 224. « Third Bull., p. 320. 



