Vol. XXVIII J Geneml Notes 1Q7 



On Friday, November 18, after adjournment of the Union, 

 many members visited the National Zoological Park by invitation 

 of Dr. Frank Baker, the Director. 



The next meeting of the Union will be held in Philadelphia, 

 the date to be determined later. 



Jno. H. Sage, 

 Secretary. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Colymbus holboelli in Kansas. — October 22, 1910, 1 captured a female 

 Holbcell's Grebe on the Kansas River near Lawrence. The specimen, 

 a female in winter plumage, is now in the collection of Kansas University. — 

 Logan Evans, Lawrence, Kan. 



A Third South Carolina Record for the Man-o'-war-bird (Fregata 

 aquila). — About 8 a. m. on October 19, 1910, I observed one of these birds 

 slowly flying over my yard. At this time the wind was blowing from the 

 northeast at the rate of forty or fifty miles an hour, accompanied with 

 torrential rain. The bird remained in sight for fully eight minutes and 

 finally disappeared in the direction of Sullivan's Island. It seemed to be 

 not in the least inconvenienced by the storm that was raging, and sailed 

 majestically in front of the severe wind with marvellous ease and upon 

 almost motionless wings. 



On October 20, 1906, between seven and eight a. m., a specimen was taken 

 during a storm on Sullivan's Island. (See 'Birds of South Carolina,' 

 1910, p. 13.) 



The occurrence of the Man-o'-war-bird on this coast is due entirely to 

 cyclones or very severe storms. — Arthur T. Wayne, Mount Pleasant, S. C. 



The Color of the Gular Sac of the Water-Turkey (Ankinga anhinga). 

 — Of the numerous specimens that I have examined in nuptial plumage 

 taken by me during the past twenty-five years the males invariably had 

 this member deep, lustrous black, while in the females, also in nuptial 

 plumage, it was of a lighter shade faintly mottled with yellowish. 



Audubon 1 says: "Adult male. .. .gular sac bright orange. Adult 

 female. . . .gular sac as in the male." Dr. Coues 2 says: "Sac orange" — 

 evidently based on Audubon's statement. 



i Birds of America, VI, 1843, 452, 454. 



2 Key to North American Birds, 1892, 730. 



