198 General Notes. [^^'Ja 



Mr. Conley shot the bird November 13, 1913, at Little Spoon Island, a 

 small island liear Isle Au Haut. This specimen is of so unusual occurrence 

 on the Atlantic coast that I am interested to have this instance recorded. 

 At the present time I understand that the bird is still in Mr. Conley's 

 possession. — Charles E. Clarke, West Somerville, Mass. 



A Banded Canada Goose. — On December 13, I shot a very large 

 Canada Goose at the Pine Island Club, N. C. Both legs carried aluminum 

 bands. The right numbered 312, the left, 314. This note if published in 

 ' The Auk ' may possibly be seen by the bander who would natm-ally in 

 return give the facts regarding the banding. — Harold Herrick, 25 

 Liberty St., New York. 



Two Trumpeter Swan Records for Colorado. — A specimen of this 

 species {Olor buccinator), the sex of which was not determined was shot by 

 Mr. Walter Scott, near Timnath, seven miles southeast of Fort Collins, 

 Colo., on November 18, 1897. Another specimen, a male, was found dead 

 by Mr. J. L. Gray, at Rocky Ridge Lake, seven miles north of Fort Collins, 

 on November 25, 1915. 



Both specimens are mounted in the College Museum. — W. L. Burnett, 

 Colorado Agricultural College, Ft. Collins, Colo. 



King Rail {Rallus elegans) in Massachusetts in November. — On the 



r2th day of November, 1914, a King Rail was captured in Longmeadow. 

 This is the latest time in the autumn that the presence of one of these birds 

 has been noted in this region. Early writers on bird life in Massachusetts 

 placed the King Rail in the class of birds whose presence in this State was 

 accidental, and with only two records of their appearance in any part of 

 the State, while now there are in collections here a half a dozen specimens 

 of this bird that have been taken in the vicinity of Springfield in recent 

 years. — Robert O. Morris, Springfield, Mass. 



Willets in Migration. — During the last days of May, 1907, while on 

 my way from Havre to New York on the S. S. ' La Loraine,' I saw at sea a 

 remarkable congregation of Willets (Catoptrophorus semipahnatus) . 



It was in the middle of the morning of a gi'ay, but not foggy, day, when 

 we were off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, that I noticed a consider- 

 able gathering of birds resting on the water in the immediate path of the 

 ship. As we approached them I thought they looked like shore birds, and 

 as the vessel drew quite close to them those immediately near it rose on 

 wing and flew off to right and left, and again alighted on the water among 

 their fellows. In the way in which they left the path of the vessel they 

 reminded me of similar flights of waterfowl seen in Alaska. 



When the birds took wing, they were at once recognized as Willets, and 

 there must have been somewhere near a thousand of them, not all packed 

 tbgether in a dense clump on the water, but more or less scattered out, in 



