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where the line converged with a white line from the opposite side, a con- 

 spicuous white patch. In the spring of 1918 I watched this drake emerge 

 from its echpse plumage and noted that while the white line and patch on 

 the nape were on the new feathers they were not as definitely white as I 

 had recollected the markings of the previous summer. When the drake 

 made its moult during the fall of 1918 I again kept an interested watch on 

 its plumage changes. It appeared in its new dress of feathers without 

 either the white line over the eye or the patch on the nape of the neck, and 

 up to the time of its death, the latter part of April, 1919, it was, when in 

 full nuptial plumage not to be distinguished from any ordinary Blue-winged 

 Teal in high feather. 



It might be stated that this " necktie teal," to use a term I had never 

 heard until I saw it in Mr. Kennard's paper, was the sole survivor of a flock 

 of seven Blue-wings held in the cage, four females and three drakes. The 

 two other drakes at no time exhibited any indication of the curious white 

 markings and died while the " necktie teal " was still in its curious plumage 

 — from which it afterwards molted. — Stanley Clisby Arthur, Dept. 

 Conservation, New Orleans, La. 



Trumpeter Swan (Olor buccinator) in Western Minnestoa. A Cor- 

 rection. — I recorded the capture of a beautiful adult male of this species 

 (see ' Auk,' Vol. XIII, page 78), which I have discovered is only the more 

 common species the Whistling Swan (Olor columbianus) . This specimen 

 together with an adult female secured at Aitkin, Minnesota, ten years later, 

 are now in the Natural History Survey Collection, University of Minnesota, 

 at Minneapolis. — Albert Lano, Fayetteville, Arkansas. 



Wild Swan on Long Island, N. Y.— Mr. John L. Lawrence, while 

 duck shooting off Doctor's Point, on Narrow Bay, between Smith's Point 

 and Moriches, at Mastic, Long Island, saw, on November 5, 1919, one 

 swan, a cygnet, about 150 yards away, flying east. The next day, Novem- 

 ber 6, one adult swan and one cygnet, came into the duck decoys and 

 stayed there some time, swimming slowly around, feeding, within thirty 

 yards. 



On November 8, two swans, both adults, came within 100 yards, circled 

 around the blind, and then settled in the water some distance away. 



It seems to me that the record is worth noting in ' The Auk,' as wild swan 

 on long Island are most unusual. — Newbold T. Lawrence, Lawrence, 

 Long Island, N. Y. 



Notes on Some Shore Birds of the Alabama River, Montgomery 

 County, Ala. — On Saturday, September 20, 1919, accompanied by a 

 friend who is both a hunter and a naturalist, I made a trip of several miles 

 down the Alabama River from the city of Montgomery for the purpose of 

 collecting fall migrants then numerous in this region. The Alabama River 

 is formed of the Coosa and the Tallapoosa and is a navigable stream from 

 Montgomery to Mobile. It is a noble stream with high wooded banks. 



