° '1912 J General Notes. o89 



juv., Mississippi River near Fox Island, Missouri, September 15, 1900"; 

 16220 Coll. J. H. F. "Male, Warsaw Illinois, September 15, 1900." These 

 are no doubt two of the three birds referred to by Widmann in ' Birds of 

 Missouri ' 1907, p. 26, but the bird is sufficiently rare in the United States 

 to have the location of the specimens definitely recorded. — J. H. Fleming, 

 Toronto, Ont. 



Caspian Tern {Sterna caspia) in Minnesota. — On Sept. 29, 1911, Mr. 

 Dan. Schmid, keeper of Big Island Park, shot an adult male and a juvenal 

 female from a flock of eight Caspian Terns on Lake Minnetonka. Both 

 specimens were in good plumage, and were made into skins. The male is 

 now in my collection. This is the first time that I have met with this 

 "pf-3if..-' in this State. — Albert Lano, Excelsior, Minnesota. 



The Brown Pelican on Long Island. — On May 26, 1912, we ob- 

 served a Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), feeding around the 

 shoals at the western end of Oak Island beach. When first seen, at long 

 range, we decided that it was a stick, with a white top. Five minutes 

 later, to our intense surprise, the stick flew away, and we knew at once it 

 was a Brown Pelican. The great size, the long bill and pouch, the whitish 

 crown and the slow sailing flight as it flapped away majestically over the 

 water were unmistakable with the naked eye, not to mention 9 x binocu- 

 lars. The bird settled on another sand-bar, and while preening its feathers, 

 we approached to within 150 yards. For the next hour and a half the bird 

 flew from bar to bar, as the tide rose, occasionafly catching a fish, by scoop- 

 ing it up with its lower mandible, but for the most part sitting on a bar, 

 preening its feathers, until the tide flushed it off, when it would fly to another. 

 This is the second record for Long Island, as far as we have been able to 

 discover. — Julius M. Johnson and Ludlow Griscom, New York City. 



An Additional Specimen of the Labrador Duck. — A short time 

 ago, while examining the contents of a large case containing a miscel- 

 laneous collection of wild-fowl skins, stored in the museum of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, I came upon an unlabelled skin that I identi- 

 fied as a juvenal male Camptorhynchus labradorius. Dr. Glover M. Allen 

 also examined the specimen and referred it to the same species. 



Unfortunately there was no label whatsoever on the skin to give the 

 slightest clue as to when or where it was taken, and there is no reference to 

 any such bird in the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 



Mr. C. Emerson Brown, who has mounted the specimen, states that it was 

 in very poor condition; being so grease-burned that on relaxing, it dis- 

 integrated into countless small fragments. Besides leaving large masses 

 of fat adhering to the skin the preparator had neglected to clean the skull. 

 Such carelessness would lead one to believe that the bird was taken long 

 ago, at a time when neither collector nor recipient considered this species 

 worthy of any especial attention. 



