^"S™""] G^^neral Notes. 75 



GENERAL NOTES. 



An Accomplishment of the Red-throated Loon. — While on the 

 southern end of Puget Sound in November and December, 1914, and 

 particularly on Oyster Bay, Wasliington, the writer had opportunity of 

 making observations on the Red-thi'oated Loon {Gavia siellata). This 

 small Loon is noticeably handier on the wing than G. imber, but differs 

 especially from that species in its ability to get under way from a position 

 in the water. When the waves are rolling it must splatter through the 

 crests of a number of them before it gets clear, but from still water the Red- 

 throated Loon can spring into the au" and proceed directly into normal 

 flight, an accomplishment in striking contrast to the limitations tradition 

 ascribes to powers of flight in the Loon kind. — W. L. McAtee, WasJdngton, 

 D. C. 



The Long-tailed Jaeger in Indiana. — While collecting along the beach 

 east of Millers, Indiana (near Dune Park), Sept. 21, 1915, I shot an adult 

 male Long-tailed Jaeger {Stercorarius longicaudus) . The bird was on the 

 beach in the vicinity of a small flock of Ring-billed and Herring Gulls. 

 The Gulls arose out of gunshot and flew out over the lake, but the Jaeger 

 circled around inland as if unwilling to leave the locality, and on concealing 

 myself, he soon returned and was secured. This is, I believe, the first 

 record for this species from Indiana, and I have been unable to find any 

 previous records from Lake Michigan. The specimen is in the collection 

 of the Field Museum. — H. L. Stoddard, A^. W. Harris Public School 

 Extension of Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, HI. 



Notes on Hybrid Ducks from Long Point, Ontario. — Among a 



number of ducks recently shot at Long Point, Ontario, was an interesting 

 hybrid between Anas rubripes and A. platyrhynchos. It was an immature 

 male, and every character which normally distinguishes the two species was 

 about evenly merged in this bird. It was large, weighing three and a quarter 

 pounds, and was the second hybrid of the same parentage to have been 

 taken on these grounds. The first was a more mature bird, taken about 

 1912 (now mounted at the Long Point Club) showing vermiculation in 

 the plumage, which the younger specimen lacks. 



A fine adult male European Widgeon was taken here on October 12, 1914, 

 and is also in the club collection. — Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Ithaca, N'. Y. 



Early European Widgeon on Long Island. — On Sept. 12, 1915, 

 a European Widgeon {Marcca pendopc) was observed by the writers on 

 Moriches Bay under the beach meadows at Mastic, Long Island, with 

 three American Widgeon {M. americana). It was examined carefully 

 through binoculars in sr.fficiently good light to make out its gray dark- 



