Auk 



76 General No/es. [f^ 



GENERAL NOTES. 



'Gull Dick' again. — (See Auk, Vol. IX, p. 227, Vol. X, p. 76, and Vol. 

 XI, p. 73.) Captain Edward Fogarty of the Brenton Reef Lightship, 

 having kindly written me as usual regarding the movements of a certain 

 American Herring Gull, called 'Dick,' I again take pleasure in communi- 

 cating the same to the readers of 'The Auk.' On Api-il 5, 1894, after 

 partaking of a hearty breakfast, the bird flew around the lightship, and 

 then took his departure, and was not again seen until about eleven o'clock 

 on the morning of October 2, 1894, when he was observed flying around 

 the lightship, thus making his t-MC7ity-third season here. It was noticed 

 that his plumage presented a rather more ragged appearance than usual, 

 his tail feathers being entirely wanting. The bird received his expected 

 breakfast, and ate it with apparent relish. A companion Herring Gull 

 was with him, but 'Dick' would not extend to him the invitation to 

 partake also, and apparently did not desire his companionship. Some 

 account of this bird having recently appeared in a Boston newspaper 

 which contained statements which were unconsciously incorrect, I would 

 say that 'Dick' has never permitted any one to fondle him, nor has he 

 ever alighted on the lightship. — -Geo. H. Mackay, Nantucket, Mass. 



Southern Capture of Larus leucopterus. — During the past winter some 

 fishermen secured two Gulls, which I have preserved and which Mr. 

 Frank M. Chapman identifies as follows: "No. 819, $, measures: wing, 

 15.25; tarsus, 2.16; exposed culmen, 1.64; depth of bill at angle, .56 in. 

 I should pronounce it an example of Lams leucopterus in immature 

 plumage." 



"No. 847, $, measures: wing, 16.40; tarsus, 2.42; exposed culmen, 

 1.82; depth of bill at angle, .65. This specimen is slightly larger than 

 average specimens of L. leucopterus and is thus intermediate between 

 that species and Larus glaucus. It is, however, so much nearer the former 

 than the latter that I should call this also Larus leucopterus^ No. 819 

 was taken at Stamford. Conn., Feb. 16, 1S94. No. S47 was shot at Rye, 

 N. Y., March 3, 1894. — Louis H. Porter, Stamford, Conn. 



The Emperor Goose in British Columbia. — 1 wish to record the 

 taking of the Emperor Goose (^Philacte canagica~) at Chemainis, Southern 

 Vancouver Island, on the 20th of November, 1894. Is this not seven or 

 eight hundred miles south of the prescribed limits of its southern range.' 

 The bird was shot with some Canada Geese and sold in the market here 

 where I secured it. 



I also wish to mention that I have just received a specimen of Harris's 

 Sparrow {^Zonotrickia querula), killed at Comox, B. C., by IVIr. W. B. 

 Anderson. This is the second example of this species found in British 

 Columbia. — John Fannin, Victoria, B. C. 



