120 General Notes. [£* 



Muskeget Island, Massachusetts, March 11, 1894. Six Sanderlings 

 (Calidris leucophcea) have lived in the vicinity the past winter. 



Somerville, Massachusetts, March 20, 1840, and Revere, Mass., March 

 6, 1880. On each of these dates Mr. George A. Tapley of Revere, Mass., 

 shot an American Golden Plover (Charadrius dominicus). Mr. Tapley in- 

 formed me he had killed one other in the spring. 



Revere, Mass., May, 1889. Mr. George A. Tapley saw six Pectoral 

 Sandpipers (Pisobia maculata), in one flock, and shot one of them; May, 

 1890, he saw two and shot both. 



Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Mass., August, 1865. Shot two Marbled Godwits 

 (Limosa fedoa). 



West Island, Seconnet Point, Rhode Island, May, 1873. In the early 

 part of this month, three Hudsonian Godwits (Limosa hcemastica) , all there 

 were. They alighted on the end of a gravel spit which was exposed at 

 low tide on the north side of the island near the boat house. I secured all 

 three at the first shot. They were in the gray plumage. 



West Island, Seconnet Point, R. I., April 27, 1875. Shot one Red- 

 throated Loon (Gavia stellata), April 16, 1878. A good many flying on 

 migration; wind light northeast. Shot one on April 1, 1881; one on April 

 13, 1884; three on April 14, 1886; one on April 15 and four on April 20, 

 1887; one April 21, 1887, and April 16, 1892. A migrating movement east- 

 ward; birds flying about sixty yards high; noted one flock of five, one of 

 six, the others scattering, about twenty-six birds in all. April 17, 1892, 

 saw eight flying on migration; wind light west. 



April 14, 1886. Quite a flight of Loons (Gavia immer), on migration; 

 wind east, a gentle breeze. — George H. Mackay, Nantucket, Mass. 



Massachusetts Notes. — On October 24, 1910, I shot a partial albino 

 Sharp-tailed Sparrow (Passerherbulus caudacutus) on a salt meadow at 

 Nantucket, Mass. I had seen it several days previous but was unable to 

 secure it then. The upper parts are blotched with several patches of pure 

 white feathers. The coverts of the left wing are also pure white while 

 the feathers on the right wing are only margined with white. The tail, 

 crown and primaries are normal in color as are also the underparts and 

 nearly all the rest of the bird. 



Early in November, 1909, two White-fronted Geese (Anser albifrons 

 qambeli) were shot at a stand on Sesachacha Pond, Nantucket. I heard 

 of their being killed last spring and was told by the man who had one of 

 them mounted that they were Lesser Snow Geese. However, this bird 

 has recently been presented to the Boston Society of Natural History 

 and has proved to be Anser albifrons gambeli. It is a young bird and the 

 white at the base of the bill is only just beginning to appear. Also the 

 tips of the feathers of the underparts show faint traces of black. There 

 are only three other records for New England, and these are all from 

 Massachusetts. A male was shot at Quincy some time about 1848-50 



