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General Notes. fjn'y 



in near proximitv. One of tlie birds seen by me alighted on a rail fence, 

 which I have frequently observed them do before. In May they will at 

 times mount up into the air, saj- one hundred to one hundred and fifty 

 feet, where they will quiver in nearly the same place and give vent to a 

 song, or perhaps I might say a good clear whistle with a varied trill of 

 three or four notes, lasting ten or twelve seconds. I have never known 

 of their uttering it at any other season of the year than in the spring. At 

 Essex, Mass., April 28, 1S92, one of my friends saw one flying. 



Tringa canutus. — Three Knots, the first noted this spring were seen 

 on Tuckernuck Island, May 11, 1892. Three also were seen on the 27th. 

 On the 28th I saw a full-plumaged adult flying, well up, towards the south ; 

 the wind was southwest, strong breeze. 



Numenius hudsonicus. — A Hudsonian Curlew was seen on or about 

 April 10, 1S92 (I cannot fix the exact date), flying towards the west. It 

 had probably been here for several days. 



Charadrius squatarola. — During the northwest rain storm of May 19, 

 20, and 21, 1892, about one hundred and fifty Black-bellied Plover 

 landed on Tuckernuck Island. By the 26th more than half of them had 

 departed. The first one this spring was noted on the ninth of May in this 

 locality. The birds in the vicinity of Tuckernuck have resorted to the 

 uplands more than usual this year. The first one noted on Cape Cod 

 was on April 20, 1892. It was alone, and was an adult male. No others 

 were seen for several weeks after, but this one remained around undis- 

 turbed. This is the earliest date I have ever heard of. 



/Egialitis meloda. — May i, 1892, I saw one Piping Plover on the beach 

 at the south head of the Ilummuck Pond. On March 29, 1891, I saw one 

 at the same place. 



Arenaria interpres. — May 1,1892. There were four Turnstones in full 

 adult plumage, standing on the rocks of the Western Jetty this morning. 

 They are the first arrivals this season, and it is an unusually early date 

 for them to appear. On May 27, 1891, I shot eleven at the west end of 

 the island. 



On Tuckernuck Island during the northeast rainstorm of May 19-21, 1892, 

 about three hundred Turnstones landed. By the 26th about two thirds 

 of them had departed. Strong southwest winds prevailed for the period 

 after the 21st. — George H. Mackay, Natitiickct, Mass. 



Brief Notes from Long Island. — The spring of 1892, peculiar in many 

 respects, has brought a number of rare birds to Long Island. On May 16, 

 at Parkville, (^iieens County, I secured a typical male of Brewster's Warbler 

 (^Helmtuthophila lejicobrotichtalis) . So far as I can find out, this form has 

 never befoi-e been taken on Long Island, though found occasionally in 

 New Jersey and the Hudson River valley. I had no opportunity to 

 observe its habits, as it was migrating with other species in the tree tops, 

 and I shot it at once for identity. 



On April 30, in the same locality, I secured a male Hooded Warbler 

 {Sylvania fnitraia), and Mr. A. H. Helme, of Miller's Place, Suffolk 



