3 86 General Notes. as 
GENERAL NOTES. 
Occurrence of the Little Blue Heron in Labrador. — On May 23, 1900, 
a Little Blue Heron (Ardea cerulea) was brought to Mr. Ernest Doane at 
Lance au Loup, Labrador, by a man who had shot it there a day or two 
before. Mr. Doane skinned the birdand sent it in a shipment just made to 
my brother and me. The specimen (No. 4433, Coll. of E. A. & O. Bangs) 
is a young male just emerging from the white plumage, having some 
blue feathers in the wings, a few long blue back plumes, and the back, 
neck and head much intermixed with grayish. While to me, little interest 
attaches to such wanderers it still, perhaps, is as well to record them, and 
so far as I know this is the first time the Little Blue Heron, has been 
taken in Labrador. — OuTRAM BANGs, Boston, Mass. 
The Marbled Godwit at Pine Point, Maine.—I recently saw for the 
first time a mounted specimen of the Marbled Godwit (Lémosa fedoa) 
which was taken by Mr. Harry Crocker at Pine Point, near Portland, in 
1891. Records of this bird in Maine are so few that the following data 
from Mr. Crocker will be of interest. He writes me: ‘‘I killed the bird 
on either the 8th or 9th of August, 1891. I shot two of them along the 
shore of the bay at Pine Point. They made no call that I could hear; 
but, after trying several, I used that of the Yellow-legs, upon hearing 
which they turned and came towards me. Mr. Benjamin F. Woodward, 
of Cambridge, Mass., has one of the birds.”, —NATHAN CLIFFORD Brown, 
Portland, Me. 
The Swallow-tailed Kite at Piermont, New York. —I made an obser- 
vation this morning (August 22, 1900) that must be of interest. Just at 
noon, with the sky bright and clear, I stepped out into the yard in time 
to see a Swallow-tailed Kite (Elanotdes forficatus) sailing over. The 
bird passed over me at a height of about one hundred feet and it is quite 
impossible for me to have been mistaken about the identification. I have 
seen a number of these birds in the South, and of course have handled 
the dried specimens. The sun was shining brightly and disclosed all 
the beautiful details of plumage. 
Piermont is on the west bank of the Hudson, and about thirty miles 
above New York city. —G. L. NicuHoias, M. D., Piermont, N. Y. 
The Western Red-tail at Toronto, Canada. — While collecting Hawks 
north of this city on November 5, 1895, I obtained a good specimen of 
Buteo borealis calurus, male, which is the first time I have heard of 
this bird appearing in this vicinity. —I. HUGHES SAMUEL, TJorondo, 
Ontario. 
