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GENERAL NOTES. 



Laughing Gulls in Plymouth County, Mass. — While spending the 

 first part of August at Manomet Point, Mass., I was surprised to note the 

 abundance of Larus atri cilia off the point. During calm weather I saw 

 every day a hundred or more in the vicinity of the point, generally keeping 

 pretty well together. On August 13 I noted about thirty on Fresh Pond, 

 a large body of water situated about a half a mile from the shore. They 

 were characteristically noisy both on the water and when circling about the 

 pond. About sixty per cent of the birds seen were in ju venal plumage. 



This is the first summer I have seen this species in Plymouth Co., though 

 Mr. Barret has recorded it. (Auk, Vol. 29, Jan., 1912, p. 99).— W. 

 Sprague Brooks, Milton, Mass. 



Brown Pelican on Pamlico Sound and at Durham, N. C. — An 



unusual spring visitation of Brown Pelicans was observed at Ocracoke, 

 N. C., this season. The writer, with his assistant, Mr. T. W. Adickes, 

 spent the week of May 20-25 at this point and, covering this period, 

 Pehcans were daily in evidence. The center of their abundance seemed to 

 be on the shoals and ' lumps ' in and opposite the Inlet, where a flock of 

 something over a hundred made their headquarters. Two specimens were 

 collected on May 24, both of which proved to be males, with the sexual 

 organs but little developed. One of them was in quite immature plumage, 

 the other having the white head of the adult. 



The two boatmen who waited on us while there — one of them having 

 been game warden in the Cape Hatteras region for several years, and quite 

 familiar with the bird life of the locality — reported another flock of about 

 a hundred seen on the lumps between Hatteras and Ocracoke on their trip 

 to the latter place on May 20. 



This species is not uncommon at times on lower Pamlico Sound during 

 the late summer, but this is our first record of the bird as a common spring 

 visitant to the region. 



On May 29 a female, approaching the adult stage of plumage, was col- 

 lected on a small pond close to the large West Durham cotton mill. It 

 was received at the museum in the flesh. The ovaries showed no indication 

 of its being a breeding bird. — H. H. Brimley, Raleigh, N. C. 



The Man-o'-war-bird (Fregata aquila) on the Coast of Georgia. — 



Mr. J. J. Sutton of Ridgeville, Georgia, recently sent to the Biological 

 Survey a photograph of a specimen of Fregata aquila captured last June 

 near the Sapelo Lighthouse in Mcintosh County on the coast of Georgia, 

 a few miles northeast of Darien. Mr. Sutton furnishes the following 

 account of the capture of the specimen : 



Mr. Wm. G. Cromley, a taxidermist, while on a visit to his brother, 



