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GENERAL NOTES. 



Brown Pelican Regular off North Carolina. — The Brown Pelican 

 (Pelecanus occidentalis) has heretofore been considered casual as far north 

 as North Carolina. 



Mr. Russell J. Coles, a leading American field ichthyologist, to whom we 

 are indebted for our knowledge of the occurrence of several southern fishes 

 at Cape Lookout, tells me that he regularly sees one or more small flocks 

 of this bird at that Cape about the first of August. As there is little chance 

 of error in the identification of so striking a species, I accept the record 

 without question. 



I quote from a letter from Mr. Coles, in which he says of the Brown 

 Pelican: 



" During no summer have I observed more than a dozen until on Aug. 6, 

 1913, I saw 5 flocks of them, the largest containing 13 and the smallest 3, 

 making a total of 41. No flock was in sight of another flock, yet they all 

 followed in approximately the same track, first appearing coming in from 

 the Northeast,. . . . they would light on the water near the point of Cape 

 Lookout and after a short rest continue then- flight without stopping to fish. 

 None of the flocks followed the shoreline to the southwest, but all flew 

 directly south." — John Treadwell Nichols, American Museum of 

 Natural History, New York City. 



Recovery of a Banded Pintail Duck. — Mr. Jefferson C. Wenck of 

 New Orleans informs me that one of the guides at the Delta Duck Club 

 killed a female Pintail at Cubit's Gap, near the mouth of the Mississippi 

 River, in December 1912, that had a band on the right leg, marked 186A. 

 It will be of interest to know where this bird was tagged. — A. K. Fisher, 

 U. S. Biological Survey, Washington, D. C. 



American Egret (Herodias egretta) at Martha's Vineyard, Mass.— 

 On July 22, 1913, I was attracted by the sight of an American Egret in the 

 Black-Crowned Night Heronry at Squibnocket Pond, Martha's Vineyard. 

 This wanderer from the south seemed to Uve in perfect harmony with his 

 cousins. The bird remained in the colony during my entire week's stay. 

 At times he would circle with the immature herons a few rods above my 

 head; again he would sail leisurely out to the edge of the pond and stand 

 motionless as if awaiting an opportunity to seize some finny loiterer. But 

 not once did I notice any quarreUing or wi-angling between the egret and his 

 less ornate relatives. — G. Kingsley Noble, Cambridge, Mass. 



The Willet in Central New York. — On August 20, 1913, I observed 

 two large shore birds on the beach at the east end of Oneida Lake in the 

 town of Verona, N. Y. From a distance I took them to be Greater Yellow- 



