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 KQg General Notes. LOct. 



wave of November 1 and 2, 1911, brought the ducks south almost by 

 the milUons The Eider was shot by a Doctor Page of Sioux Falls and is 

 now in the possession and displayed in the place of busmess of William 

 Sweet of this city.— S. S. Visher, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, 

 S.D. 



ilecords from Nippinickett Pond, Bridgewater, Mass.— The 

 captures of the following ducks on Nippinickett Pond seem worthy of 

 record. European Widgeon, Mareca penelope, Nov. 7, 1902. Shot by A. 



C Dvke 

 Two European Widgeons, Mareca penelope, Oct. 22, 1910, from a flock 



of 4 birds. Shot by Harry P. Sturtevant. 



European Widgeon, Mareca penelope, Oct. 23, 1910. Shot by A. C. 



%utchin'8 Goose, Branta canadensis hutchinsi, Oct. 8, 1910, from a 

 flock of six birds, the other five being Canada Geese. Shot by Messrs. 

 Frank C. Drake and Irving A. Hall. ,.,,„, r, . t 



All the specimens were obligingly identified by Mr. Wm. Brewster of 

 Cambridge.— Arthur C Dyke, Bridgewater, Mass. 



Sora Rail {Porzana Carolina) in New Mexico.- On the morning of 

 Au-ust 27 1912, at State College, New Mexico, I picked up, dead, an 

 immature Sora Rail that had flown against a telephone wire and broken 

 its neck. On the night of August 23, 1912, about 10 o'clock P M.. a flock of 

 birds flew over me on the mesa, headed northeast - away from the Rio 

 Grande The size of the birds and their manner of flight, as seen by the 

 moonlight, in conjunction with the finding of the above specimen, lead me 

 to belirve these birds were of the same species. 



To my knowledge, this is the first specific record of this species in the 

 state, certainly in this locafity. There has been an unusual amount of 

 rainfaU in this region during the month of August, which may account for 

 their presence here at this time, for our mesa country offers no inducements 

 to them naturally.- D. E. Merrill, State College, N. M. 



Early Occurrence of the White-rumped Sandpiper {Pisohia fusci- 

 'collis) in Maine.— A male White-rumped Sandpiper in nuptial plumage 

 was secured on April 27, 1912, at Scarborough Maine. The bird was alone. 



The only other instances of its occurrence in the state in spring, known 

 to me, are those recorded by Mr. Nathan Clifford Brown, May 30, 1881, 

 and May 29 1882.i Both of these recorded by Mr. Brown are m the 

 collection of the Portland Society of Natural History, and the one here 

 recorded in that of the writer. .i. , ., .• , ^f 



The bird according to Mr. W. W. Cooke is rare on the Atlantic coast of 

 the United States, in spring, north of Virginia,^ and its occurrence at this 



1 Proc. Portland Society of N. H., II, p. 27. 

 « Bull. 35, U. S. Biol. Survey, p. 38. 



