3IO General Notes. [^",'j 



them this spring was on April 6, when I saw four, and again on April i6, 

 when I saw two. Since then I have visited some of their most favorite 

 haunts a number of times but have failed to note a single one. Thej 

 Avere very common last year, lingering with us until late in November. 

 I am inclined to believe that the exceptionally cold winter has been 

 verj' hard on them, in depriving them of their food supply-. 



Early on the morning of March 24, 1895, a large ' bird wave,' composed 

 of Geese, Swans, and Ducks got lost, or became bewildered by the electric 

 lights (a dense fog prevailing in this valley at the time) and flew about 

 the city for a couple of hours before they could get their correct bearings. 

 There must have been thousands of them judging from the noise they 

 made. 



Of late years this is getting to be a common occurrence during their 

 spring migrations. I have in my collection a fine specimen of the Long- 

 tailed Duck, which I found dead on the door-step one morning, after one 

 of these flights, it probably having flown against the house. — H. C. Kirk- 

 PATRICK, Meadvillc, Pa. 



Nantucket Notes.^ Nantucket, Mass., August 26, 1S94. I shot to-day 

 a Wilson's Snipe {Gallitiago delicata') which was feeding among a 

 flock of Peeps on the shore of Hummock Pond. A short time after 

 I shot a Stilt Sandpiper {Micropalama himantopiis^ from this same 

 flock of Peeps. I saw in addition another specimen which had been 

 taken in the same locality two days before. 



November 6, 1S94, I shot two female Mallards {Anas hoschas) ; they 

 were in company with some Black Ducks (A/ms obsciii-a), but seemed 

 to feel out of place, keeping a little apart. 



November i. Twenty-five Broadbills (^Aythya tnarila Jiearctica') seen 

 at the Long Pond to-day. November S, I saw a flock of Somateria 

 dresseri, seven females, later three males, in Nantucket Sound. In a 

 letter received from Mr. ^"inal N. Edwards, dated Woods Hole, Mass., 

 Jan. 16, 1S95, he informs me, that from the ist to the 5th of November, 

 1894, the wind had been strong S. W. to W. ; the week previous it was 

 N. E. to S. E., cloudy and rainy. On Nov. 5, 1894, the first American 

 Eiders (^Somateria dresseri) of the season were noted by him, — a flock of 

 thirty-seven. By the 27th about one thousand had collected, but the 

 gunners drove them away, and the weather being so moderate they 

 remained in the Sound to feed. On Jan. 15, 1S95, there were about one 

 thousand in the Hole but they only remained about two hours. 



Nantucket, April 10, 1895. Mr. Charles E. Snow informs me that he 

 saw to-day on the Ram Pasture a Bartramian Sandpiper {Bariramia 

 longicauda) and drove within twenty 3'ards of the bird. This is the 

 earliest spring record I have ever heard of in this vicinity. — George H. 

 Mack AY, Nantucket, Mass. 



Notes on Some Connecticut Birds. — Uria lomvia. — A few of these 

 northern birds entered the Connecticut River in December, 1S94. Two 



