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ni-htfuU the Gulls seemed to fly in one direction.- northward,-as ifthey 

 roosted together, and when low water came at night, they m.ght be heard 

 at intervals calling fro.n the flats. At Mingan and Perc6 the Herring Gull 

 breeds in colonies, and here, too. their querulous cries might be heard at 

 all times throughout the night. 



The term "warv and observing bird" is applicable to most Gulls, even 

 where thev are not especially sought after. In Valparaiso harbor, where 

 the rules of the port prohibit the firing of guns, Lams dominicanus was 

 extremely tame, feeding about the vessels and frequently alighting on 

 their jib-booms. Just without the harbor they were shy and vigilant. 

 Here too, the greater part of the Gulls departed toward nightfall in one 

 direction, apparently for the purpose of roosting together, sometimes leav- 

 ing in flocks of fifty or more. -F. A. Lucas, Washington, D. C. 



Another Specimen of the Labrador Duck. -As an addition to Mr. 

 Butcher's list of specimens of Camptolaimns labradorius present in other 

 collections (see 'The Auk. 1891, p. 201), I beg to state that the Dresden 

 Museum possesses a female example, as to the history of which, however, 

 I am only able to say that it was in Dresden before the year 1850 when 

 Reichenbach published a figure of it in his 'Handbuch der speciellen Or- 

 nitholo-ie : Natatores.' It has all the appearance of an antique specimen, 

 and that it is so, is further shown by the handwriting on the old label, 

 according to which it came from Labrador. -A. B. Meyer, M. D., 

 Dresden, Saxony. 



Ereunetes occidentalis in Connecticut. - Mr. C C. Hamner, while 

 coUectin.^ shore biids with me at Lyme, Conn., Sept. 4, 1SS9, shot three 

 birds of tills species. There were six of them in all, and they were quite 

 noticeable among the Ereunetes pusillus with which they were associated, 

 on account of their longer bill. These birds were kindly identified by Dr. 

 J. A. Allen, and are now in the collection of Mr. John H. bage, Portland, 

 Conn. — WiLLARD E. Treat, East Hartford, Conn. 



Tetanus flavipes and Charadrius dominicus. -Mr. William S. Kim- 

 ball of Rochester, N. Y., informs me that while shooting at Martins 

 Point, near Swan Island, North Carolina, he noted a large migration o 

 the Smaller Yellowleg passing south on August 29. 1892. On the same 

 date he shot two American Golden Plover, and later in the day another 

 all that he saw. The wind was southeast with drizzling rain. - George 

 H. Mack AY, Nantucket, Mass. 



Tryngites subruficollis-I have met with and taken but few Buff--breasted 

 Sandpipers in my shooting experience on the Massachusetts coast ; my 

 record shows but eleven during the last seventeen years, all of them 

 hTvin. been shot on the island of Nantucket. Six of these were taken on 



