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1906 J 



GENERAL NOTES 



The Masked Duck in Maryland. — It may be of interest to readers 

 of 'The Auk' to know that a specimen of the St. Domingo or Masked 

 Duck (Nomonyx dominicus) was taken near here on September 8, 1905. 

 So far as I am aware this is the fourth specimen to be recorded as having 

 been taken within the limits of the United States. 



The bird in question, an adult male, was taken by a student of Delaware 

 College, Mr. J. C. Smith of Elkton, Md. Mr. Smith, accompained by Mr. 

 John Mackall, was out rail-shooting about four miles from Elkton, Md., 

 early in the morning of September 8, when the bird was secured. Mr. 

 Smith reports that it was not wary and that it was secured at the third 

 shot, the other two causing it to fly but 150-200 yards each time. The 

 bird was brought to me for determination and after satisfying myself as 

 to its identity I preserved its skin. This has recently been deposited in 

 the U. S. National Museum, at Washington, D. C— C. O. Houghton, 

 Entomologist and Asst. Professor of Zoology, Delaware College Experiment 

 Station, Newark, Del. 



Southeastern Michigan Records.— Wilson's Phalarope, Steganopus 

 tricolor. A specimen of this species was seen by the writer May 5, on a 

 little mudhole in Ecorse Township, Wayne County, this State. It was in 

 company with a flock of Yellow-legs, and though I watched it for some 

 time I was unable to collect it. However, on May 12, the same or a like 

 bird was observed again and this time I secured it, It proved to be a 

 female in full plumage and is now No. 502 in my collection. 



White-rumped Sandpiper, Actodromas fuscicollis. — The rarity of the 

 records of this species here seems to make it worth while to record the 

 taking of three out of six seen by the writer on the same ground as men- 

 tioned in the preceding note, June 2.— P. A. Taverner, Detroit, Mich. 



Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa hcemastica) in Ontario.— May 13, 1905, 

 I took a male of this species in high plumage on the east shore of Point 

 Pelee, Ont. It is now in my collection, numbered 147. — P. A. Taverner, 

 Detroit, Mich. 



The European Turnstone in Massachusetts. — An adult female 

 Turnstone which I collected on Monomoy Island, Mass., on Sept. 8, 1892, 

 Mr. Oberholser agrees with me in identifying as Arenaria interpres. As 

 an adult male and two young Turnstones in my collection, taken by Mr. 

 A. H. Dunham at Nome, Alaska, are intermediate between A . interpres and 

 A. morinella, I have no doubt Mr. Oberholser was right in suggesting that 

 the latter is merely a subspecies of the former (Osprey, Vol. IV, February, 

 1900, p. 96). — Louis B. Bishop, New Haven, Conn. 



