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GENERAL NOTES. 



The Black Tern (Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis) in New York 

 Harbor. — On August 31, 1899, five Black Terns were shot at Bedloes 

 Island, New York Harbor. The two that I skinned, both males, had 

 been eating small fish. Others of the same species were seen subse- 

 quently in the same locality at about same date. — L. S. Foster, New 

 York City. 



Capture of the Brown Pelican in Wyoming. — I have to record the cap- 

 ture of Pelecanus fuscus upon one of the city reservoirs of Cheyenne, 

 Wyoming, on July 12, one individual, a female, which was alone. The 

 bird was in poor flesh and apparently had about completed moulting. Two 

 or three of her rectrices were less than half grown and each wing showed 

 two or three old brown primaries and two or three old brown secondaries 

 not yet shed. Head and neck uniform slate gray. Measurements as fol- 

 lows : Culmen, 11.12 ; wing, 20.00 ; length, 49.00 inches. I do not know 

 of any other captures of this species in Wyoming, or, for that matter, in 

 any intermountain State, in this or contiguous latitudes. I am not 

 familiar with the species, but think the uniform brown head and neck 

 would indicate immaturity, but the few worn and much darker quills of 

 the wings and the partly moulted tail offer conclusive evidence against 

 the suggestion that the bird is of the present year. I have mounted the 

 specimen and placed it in the Cheyenne High School collection. — 

 Frank Bond, Cheyenne, Wyo. 



The Little Blue Heron (Ardea carulea) in Connecticut. — On July 

 21, 1S99, I saw no less then seven individuals of this species, all young 

 birds, in white plumage. On the 25th I secured one, and a few days 

 later another; there were five shot all together. The remaining two 

 left and were not seen again. The flock spent about two weeks here, 

 feeding on the salt marshes. This is the first and only time that I have 

 met with Ardea ccerulea, in Connecticut. — Arthur William Brockway, 

 Old Lyme, Conn. 



The Green Heron Breeding in Ontario. — Very little seems to be 

 known of the breeding habits of the Green Heron (Ardea virescens) in 

 Ontario, and its presence is not often noted north of the southern parts 

 of the Province — Mcllwraith makes the general statement that it breeds 

 near Dunville, the St. Clair Flats, and at Hamilton. This summer we 

 have located it in a spot fully eighty miles north of these places and 

 there is reason to believe that it breeds at several points in this locality. 

 Early in June the Rev. C. J. Young of Lansdowne, Ont., informed me 



