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Tschusi-Schmidhoffcn, Vict. Ritter v. Am Velenczeer-und Kleinen 

 Baltonsee. (Separat-abdruck aus dem Hauptber. des Il-ten intern, orn. 

 Congress zu Budapest. 4to, pp. 8.) 



American Field, XXXVII, Nos. 24-26, XXXVIII, Nos. 1-12. 



American Joiirn. Sci., Julj-Sept. , 1892. 



American Naturalist, Mav-Aug., 1892. 



Forest and Stream, XXXVIII, Nos. 23-26, XXXIX, Nos. i-ii. 



Journal Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., XV, Nos. 1-2, April and July, 1892. 



Naturalist, The, Monthly Jour n. Nat. Hist, for North of England, Nos. 

 203-206, June-Sept., 1892. 



Observer, The, III, Nos. 6-9, June-Sept., 1892. 



Ornithologisches Jahrbuch, III, May-June, 1S92. 



Ornithologist and Oologist, XVII, Nos. 6-8, 1892. 



Ottawa Naturalist, VI, June-Sept., 1S92. 



Proceedings (Abstract of) Linnaean Society of New York, 1891. 



Proceedings and Transactions Nova Scotia Inst. Sci., I, pt. i, 1890-91. 



Transactions Wisconsin Acad. Sci., Arts and Letters, VIII, 1888-91. 



Wilson Qiiarterly, Journ. of Orn., IV, No. 2, July, 1892. 



Zoe, III, No. 2, July, 1892. 



Zoologist, July-Sept., 1892. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Habits of the Herring Gull. — In Mr. G. H. Mackay's very interesting 

 article on the Herring Gull, in the July number of 'The Auk', he states that 

 it is with some hesitation that he regards them as gregarious, for they ap- 

 parently only come together when there is some particular reason for so 

 doing, and not because they like to. My own impression was just the 

 reverse of this, but I must admit that my observations have been made but 

 casually, and that I have not observed the Gulls with the care that Mr. 

 Mackay has devoted to the subject. I should have said that Gulls scattered 

 in search of food at high water, but came together sociably at other times. 



At Plymouth, Mass., it used to be no uncommon sight to see the greater 

 part of the Gulls in the neighborhood gathered in one vast flock on the 

 outer side of the long sand spit, known as the 'Beach.' This, if my mem- 

 ory serves me aright, usually took place some little time after low water. 

 The Gulls were not feeding, but resting and preening their feathers, and, 

 unless disturbed by man, they would remain until driven away by the ad- 

 vancing tide. 



At high water the Gulls were widely scattered, searching for floating 

 food, and as the flats in the harbor were left bare by the receding tide the 

 Gulls would gather here and there in small flocks looking for food. At 



