I90 General Notes. \_£$n. 



Lanius ludovicianus (migrans). — On August 29, 1S9S, Master 

 LeRoy King took a Shrike on Indian Ave., Newport, and brought the 

 specimen to Edward Sturtevant, Esq., through whose kindness it finally 

 reached me for identification. I referred the bird directly to Mr. William 

 Palmer's new subspecies migrans of Lanius ludovicianus, described in 

 'The Auk' (Vol. XV, No. 3, 244), and forwarded the specimen to him for 

 his examination. The bird is an immature female and measured by Mr. 

 Palmer's measurement (taken from skin), wing. 3.85 ; tail, 3.60; cu.lmen, 

 .53; tarsus, 1. 12. Mr. Palmer referred the bird to his subspecies and 

 drew attention to some points I had already noted, viz., first plumage 

 feathers on head, back, and wing-coverts and the growing out of a new 

 tail-feather, either to replace moult or loss. For the present we must 

 call the bird, I suppose, Lanius ludovicianus excubitorides. 



Numenius longirostris. Long-billed Curlew. — At Jamestown on 

 September 9, 1S97, a single bird, sex unknown, was taken by Thomas R. 

 Stetson on the edge of Round Swamp. The bird I obtained and is now 

 in the collection of Mr. William Brewster, Cambridge, Mass. 



Ammodramus princeps. Ipswich Sparrow. — Among the dunes 

 back of the first and second beach at Newport and Middletown this spe- 

 cies winters not uncommonly. — Reginald Heber Howe, Jr., Long- 

 zvood, Mass. 



Notes on Long Island Birds. — The following data include observa- 

 tions of some birds not before referred to by the writer, while others have 

 been included here on the ground of further acqaintanceship, or for other 

 reasons. 



Larus leucopterus (or kumlieni). On March 8, 1S98, a Gull was shot 

 by John Tiernan of Rockaway Beach while he was lying in a small boat 

 about five miles off shore stooling for Old Squaw Ducks. On the follow- 

 ing day while at the beach, I noticed this Gull hanging on the awning 

 frame of Tiernan's hotel. The light colored (almost white) primaries 

 caught my attention at once, and I secured the bird. It is an immature 

 male ; much smaller than L. glaucus, and its rather dark coloration I 

 found puzzling. Through the kindness of Mr. Walter Deane of Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., the skin was examined by Mr. William Brewster who 

 named it L. leucopterus. Mr. Brewster is inclined to regard the phase of 

 plumage represented by the present specimen as belonging to that of the 

 immature L. kumlieni, the status of which, as yet, has not been deter- 

 mined. The Iceland Gull has been rarely taken on Long Island. Giraud 

 makes no mention of the species, nor is it included in Mr. Lawrence's 

 ' Catalogue of Birds.' It is stated in Chapman's ' Birds of Eastern North 

 America' to be an autumnal visitant in winter. 



Sterna caspia. The Caspian Tern appears to occur on our coast regu- 

 larly each autumn, though it is never, I believe, common. On May 12, 

 189S, I received two adult males from Mr. Andrew Chichester of Amity- 

 ville, Long Island, who had shot them on the South Bay the preceding 



