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GENERAL NOTES. 



Name of the Large-billed Puffin. — The A. O. U. Committee (Check- 

 List N. A. Birds, No. 13 a) seems to have been misled in quoting Tem- 

 minck in connection with this bird, and also in citing Stephens, 1S26, 

 for the original description. The bird appears to have been first named, 

 • by Naumann, Isis, 1821, p. 7S2, pi. 7, fig. 2, credited to Leach. Stephens's 

 Continuation of Shaw's Gen. Zool., as quoted of 1S26, XIII, p. 40, I 

 have not verified, but believe the correct citation to be 1825, XIII, p. 

 40, pi. 4, fig. 2. — -Elliott Coues, Washington, D. C. 

 [Cf. Auk, XIII, p. 1S9, April, 1896.— Edd.] 



Record of a Fourth Specimen of the European Widgeon (Anas pene- 

 lope) in Indiana. — A fine adult male of this Duck was killed on the 

 marshes of the English Lake Shooting and Fishing Club at English 

 Lake, Indiana, by Mr. John E. Earle of Hinsdale, 111., on the 23d of 

 March, 1S96. It was flying in company with a small flock of Baldpates 

 when shot. Mr. Earle has had it mounted and it is now in his possession. 

 This specimen makes the eighth record for the interior, including the 

 one cited by Mr. Frank S. Wright of Auburn, N. Y., in the ' Ornithologist 

 and Oologist,' Vol. VII, p. 133, as taken on Lake Cayuga, N. Y., in May, 

 1880. This record I had previously overlooked. In a recent letter from 

 Mr. Wright he informs me that he still has this Duck in his possession. — 

 Ruthven Deane, Chicago III. 



Recent Occurrence of the Florida Gallinule in Southern Maine. — Two 

 immature male specimens of the Florida Gallinule (Gallinula galeata) 

 have recently been taken on the 'Dyke 'marsh in Falmouth, near Port- 

 land. The first was shot on September 20, 1894, and is preserved in 

 the collection of Mr. W. H. Rich, of Portland. The second was shot 

 on September 30 of the same year, and is in my own collection. Both 

 of these birds were seen by me before they were preserved. — Henry 

 H. Brock, Portland, Me. 



Baird's Sandpiper in Michigan. — In 'The Auk' for April (Vol. XIII, 

 p. 174) I find mention made of the taking of Tringa bairdii, Baird's 

 Sandpiper, at Grand Rapids, Michigan, the writer stating that it was the 

 second or third, or perhaps the first ever taken in the State. During the 

 past few months a number of letters have reached me, making inquiries 

 in regard to this bird, to which I wish to make the following reply 

 through 'The Auk.' 



In 'Birds of Michigan' by A. J. Cook (second edition), page 59, I find 

 the following: "Tringa bairdii. Baird's Sandpiper. This species is 

 embraced in Covert's 'Birds of Michigan.'" 



