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Kitts formerly magistrate at Inagua, Bahamas, who knows Anegada 

 well, assures me that this is true. 



The Lesser Antillean range of Pkcenicopterus ruber, then, should be, 

 formerly south to Guadeloupe; until about i860 casual on Antigua, now 

 casual at Anegada, and apparently unknown south of that island. 



The Fish Hawk (Pandion haliaetus carolinensis) is not now known to 

 breed in the Lesser Antilles, although of common occurrence throughout 

 the islands in fall and winter and sometimes seen in summer. The fol- 

 lowing account by Dutertre regarding this bird in Guadeloupe is there- 

 fore of interest (1667, II, p. 253). "The children of the natives (Caribs) 

 train the young (fish-hawks) and make use of them for fishing, but only 

 for sport, as they never bring back the fish."— <\trsTiN II. Clark, Bos- 

 ton, Mass. 



Two Massachusetts Records. — Mr. John E. Thayer permits me to 

 record the following captures, the specimens referred to being now in his 

 museum at Lancaster, Mass. On May 24, 1904, a boy caught a female 

 Purple Gallinule (lonornis marthiiea) at Randolph. The bird was kept 

 alive for a few days, but finally died, and was purchased by Mr. Thayer. 

 On August 12, 1904, Mr. Henry YV. Abbott shot a female Little Blue 

 Heron (Florida cterulea) at Sandwich. The specimen is almost white, 

 being in the light phase of plumage. — Reginald Heber Howe, Jr., 

 Concord, Mass. 



Notes on Nebraska Birds. — Since the publication of the ' Birds of 

 Nebraska ' last summer some new records have been established which 

 may prove to be of more than local interest, and these are given below. 



Anas obscura rubripes. Red-legged Black Duck. — Until recently 

 we had no definite record of this duck in the State. A typical male 

 specimen of this subspecies was received at the University which had 

 been shot on the Platte River near Greenwood on March 15, 1905. A 

 subsequent examination of all other specimens accessible showed another 

 male taken at Lincoln November 16, 1S96, by Mr. August Eiche, to be 

 referable to this form, although not quite typical of it. A female taken 

 at Calhoun and now in the collection of J. E. Wallace at Omaha was dis- 

 tinctly rubripes, and was in a flock from which at the same time two 

 males of undoubted obscura were taken. Additional records of obscura 

 were determined in a female from Fairmont and a male from Gresham. 



Herodias egretta. American Egret. — The sixth record of this fine 

 bird for the State is based on a specimen shot at Nehawka, May 2, 1905, 

 and sent to the University for determination and mounting. It has been 

 retained in the University collection. The record of the "Snowy Heron " 

 from Fairbury, as recorded in our list, really refers to this species, and 

 forms the fifth definite record of its occurrence. 



Phalaropus lobatus. Northern Phalarope. — Our previous concep- 

 tion of the Northern Phalarope as a "rare" migrant has not been at all 



