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never met this species. On the day on which he made this 

 capture he had gone to this creek for water-fowl, where tall grass 

 formed a natural blind. The swan was first seen in flight and 

 took to the water not far off, but out of gun-range. After long 

 waiting, however, it swam within range when the farmer killed it 

 by a heavy charge of shot, with which he was fortunate enough 

 to break the neck of the immense bird. 



Accipiter atricapillus. Mr. Byram of Sag Harbor has in his 

 collection of birds a fine adult Goshawk. It was killed at Ama- 

 gansett March 21, 1899, and mounted by him. He states in 

 regard to this species: "I also had another to stuff, March i, 



1899, which was caught in a trap on Gardiner's Island." 

 Cathartes aura. Mr. Robt. L. Peavey, of this city, secured a 



specimen of the Turkey Vulture at Rockaway Beach, June 21, 

 1902. A former specimen secured by him at the same place, three 

 years previously, I have recorded in this journal (Auk, XVII, 



1900, p. 70). 



Helminthophila lawrencei. At Cold Spring Harbor, Long 

 Island, May 8, 1902, a specimen of Lawrence's Warbler was 

 secured. Nothing except its peculiar coloring was noted as dis- 

 tinguishing it from numbers of other warblers feeding in the same 

 trees with it. The specimen is a male, and seems perfectly 

 typical. This is the first recorded instance of its occurrence on 

 Long Island. 



Mimus polyglottos. A Mockingbird, in immature (breast- 

 spotted) plumage was killed on Rockaway Beach Sept. 14, 1902, 

 and kindly presented to the writer by Mr. Robt. L. Peavey of 

 Brooklyn. Another was reported killed here two weeks previously. 



