I78 General Notes. [jJJJ, 



seen them in the city nearly every day. Their chief food seems to be the 

 seeds of crab-apples, and mountain ash berries. 



Phalacrocorax dilophus. — This species is not uncommon along the 

 Maine coast, but it is rare in the interior of the State. We have in the 

 Maine State College collection a specimen of the Double-crested Cormor- 

 ant which was shot at Kingman, Penobscot County, Me., about Nov. 18, 

 1S95, and presented to the college by Rev. J. W. Hatch. — O. W. Knight, 

 Bangor, Maine. 



Three Winter Notes from Longwood, Massachusetts. — I noted a flock 

 of nineteen White-throated Sparrows (Zonotric/u'a albicollis) on the 8th of 

 December, 1895, and again on the 21st, when three specimens were taken, 

 one adult and one immature male and one adult female. This flock 

 remained in the locality of an old dump, among tree trunks and general 

 rubbish, — a protected spot. I have noted this flock since the 8th and 21st 

 on the following dates : December 22 and 25 ; January 2, only eight 

 being then in the flock ; January 19, three of the flock noted in a snow 

 storm ; three again on the 25th, and since this latter date they have 

 entirely disappeared from the locality, the weather having not become, 

 however, any more severe. 



On the 16th of November I noted in the same locality a Winter Wren 

 {Troglodytes hiemalis) and on the 25th shot, I think, the same bird. This 

 is another record of the wintering of this species near Boston, Mass. 



On the 25th of December, 1895, I also noted a male Chewink (Pipilo 

 erythrophthalmus) in company with a flock of White-throats, mentioned 

 above. He flew from a thicket and perched for a moment in the top of a 

 pear tree, called she-Mink several times and disappeared. This is the first 

 record I believe of Pipilo erytlirophthalmus in Massachusetts during the 

 winter. One was recorded at Portland, Connecticut, in January. Since 

 writing the above I have learned from Mr. Brewster that a female Chewink 

 was sent to him which was shot on January 2, in Bedford, Mass., some ten 

 miles to the northwest of here. — Reginald Heber Howe, Jr., Long- 

 zvood, Mass. 



Bird Notes from Erie County, New York. — Among the rarer summer 

 birds found near Springville, New York, maybe mentioned the American 

 Egret (Ardea egrella). A young bird of the year was taken on the Cat- 

 taraugus Creek on August 10, 1SS1, by Mr. Depevv of Long Island. 

 The specimen is now in my collection. 



The Horned Lark and State-colored Junco have been found to be regular 

 breeders in this vicinity. The Larks lay their eggs about the first week in 

 April and the Juncos build their nests the last of May. In the middle 

 of June, 1895, the writer found the Junco breeding on the mossy slope of 

 a woodland ravine only a few rods from the home of the Chewink, Rose- 

 breasted Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting, and Scarlet Tanager ; all these birds 

 at the same time protesting against his invasion of their peaceful realm. 



