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GENERAL NOTES. 



Migration of Urinator imber. — Seconnet Point, Rhode Island, April i6, 

 iSg2. Clear weather, sea calm, whid light, northwest. I saw twenty to 

 twenty-five Loons today flying toward the east, on migration, at an 

 elevation of about si.xty yards ; there were five in one flocli, and six in 

 another, the others scattering. April 17, I saw six flying east on migra- 

 tion, with a light west wind. April 18, wind east to southeast, I saw only 

 two or three today flying east. April 19, I saw four flying east; they 

 were well up; wind light, northwest. April 20, no air moving, vane 

 pointed northwest, I saw six, four of which were in company, all flying 

 east; they were up about seventy-five yards. April 21, I saw two flying 

 east, about sixty yards up. I shot one, an adult in full plumage, weighing 

 eleven pounds ; I have shot them larger and heavier. 



Loons fly in large numbers all through May up to June first, when the 

 migration seems over for those going north, the height of abundance 

 being from the fifteenth of May to June first. A southwest wind is par- 

 ticularly favorable for such northern migration. One of their principal 

 lines of flight is up Buzzard's Bay, crossing the land (the narrowest 

 part) to Cape Cod Bay. While making this flight a great many are killed 

 between Tobey and Mashnee Islands. I have seen here years ago three 

 tiers often or a dozen boats each (and I am informed such is often the case 

 at the present time) stretched across the strait between the above islands. 

 J^ifty to sixty Loons are killed sometimes, on a good soutliwest morning 

 (they fly again at about dark), and as many more wounded ones are shot 

 down which are not recovered. When the wind is from any other quarter 

 than southwest, they pass overhead very high up. — George H. Mackay, 

 Nantucket, Mass. 



Pelecanus erythrorhynchos in Maine. — I have examined a magnificent 

 adult male American White Pelican which was shot on May 28, 1892, at 

 Saponic Pond by Peter Sibley, and was purchased by O. W. White of 

 Burlington, Maine, for whom it has been mounted by S. L. Crosby of 

 Bangor. This is a most interesting capture for this State and particularly 

 so for a locality so far inland. Saponic Pond is situated on the line between 

 Burlington and Grand Falls Plantation, about forty miles N. N. E. of 

 Bangor, and some three miles east of Enfield and the Penobscot River. — 

 Harry Merrill, Bangor. Maine. 



The Spring Migration of the Scoters in 1892. — Seconnet Point, Rhode 

 Island. The first week in April was hot. the thermometer rising to 71*^ on 

 the 2d, and to 78° in the shade on the 3d. 



On the 4th. there was rain in the early morning, with the wind east; it 

 changed to southwest about eight o'clock a.m. From daylight until 



