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keeper of the Sapelo Lighthouse, on June 8, 1912, saw the bird coming in 

 from the sea, circle about the lighthouse several times, and then proceed 

 due west. After two or three minutes it changed its course and started out 

 to sea again. As it passed the lighthouse Mr. Cromley heard the report 

 of a gun and saw the bird come down. He secured it, mounted it, and the 

 specimen is now in his possession. 



The Man-o'-War-bird was apparently first recorded in the list of Georgia 

 birds more than sixty years ago. Through the kindness of Mr. Arthur H. 

 Howell, my attention has been called to White's list of the birds of the 

 State, which appeared in a little known work published at Savannah in 

 1849.^ The appendix contains a nominal list of 273 birds found in the State, 

 including the present species, but without comment or reference to any 

 records. The present specimen seems to be the first definite record for the 

 State. 



As is well known, Fregata aquila occasionally strays northward some 

 distance along both coasts and in the interior. On the Atlantic Coast 

 Audubon recorded the fact as early as 1835 that it ' rarely travels farther 

 eastward than the Bay of Charleston in South Carolina ' (Ornith. Biog., 

 Ill, p. 495), and Grinnell in 1875 intimated that it had been found as far 

 north as Long Island.^ Beside the Georgia bird at least nine other speci- 

 mens have been reported from points north of Florida: namely, in 1859, 

 1871 (?), 1876, 1877, 1884, 1886, 1893, 1906, and 1910. The species has 

 been recorded three times from South Carolina ^ — from Mt. Pleasant, 

 August 26, 1893, and October 19, 1910, and SuUivan Island, at the entrance 

 of Charleston Harbor, October 20, 1906; and has been taken once in New 

 Jersey,^ at Cape May Court House, in the spring of 1877; once in New 

 York,* on Gardiners Island, August 4, 1886; once in Connecticut,^ on 

 Faulkner Island, in the autumn of 1859; and once in Nova Scotia,^ off 

 Hahfax Harbor, October 16, 1876. It has also been reported from the 

 coast of Maine and from Quebec, but in neither case was the specimen 

 preserved. Stearns states in his New England Bird Life (II, p. 342, 1883) : 

 " Mr. Purdie's manuscript informs us that a specimen was taken, but not 

 preserved, about twelve years ago [1871?], at Booth Bay, Maine," and 

 Comeau reports that one was seen and shot at on August 13, 1884, at 

 Godbout, Quebec. ■^ Those who know the care and accuracy of these 

 observers may be inclined to accept the Purdie and Comeau records al- 

 though not quoted in the Check-List. — T. S. Palmer, Washington, D. C. 



' George White's 'Statistics of the State of Georgia." Cat. Fauna, p. 11, 8vo. 

 Savannah. 1849. 



2 Grinnell, Am. Nat., IX, p. 470, 1875. 



3 Wayne, Auk, XXVIII, p. 107. 1911. 



* Maynard. Birds Eastern N. Am., p. 473, 1881. 

 ' Dutcher, Auk, V, p. 173. 1888. 

 » Deane, Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club. IV, p. 64, 1879. 

 ' Merriam, Auk, II, p. 113, 1885. 



