Vo, i9?3 CX ] General Voi L09 



of December. The spring flight of Scoters would bring the sportsmen 

 mi! (do late for King Eiders as the latter go north very early, even leaving 

 southern Greenland late in April (W. W. Cooke, Bull, 26. Biol. 8ui 



The facl thai mosi of the specimens noted in Massachusetts have been 

 juvenal males and females ii no doubt due to the fact that the adult mules 

 do not migrate bo far south as the females and young, a phenomenon noted 

 in other species "I bird 



The following records are all that have conic to my notice, and I am 

 greatly indebted to those who have kindly furnished me with such records 

 :h have not \><-<-u previously published. 



Aduh male in the collection of the Boston Society of Natural History 

 taken by Dr. Samuel Cabot, Jr., and labelled ' Massachusetts.' This bird 

 wa- probably taken some sixty years ago at lea t. 



Female ditto. 



Juvenal male taken Nov. 6, 1871, al Cohasset. Now in collection of Mr. 



William Brew ster. 



Juvenal male taken during Nov., IS7I. Exact locality not known. 

 Collection of Mr. William Brewster. 



Female taken Dec. l, 1875. No exact locality. Collection of Mr. 

 William Brewster. 



Male shot at Chelsea on Jan. 6, 1875. Collection of Mr. William 

 Brew 



I ■ male taken during Jan., L875 at. Chelsea. Collection of Mr. William 

 Brewster. 



Female shot by Mr. W. S. Bryant at Cohasset, Nov. 1, 1885. This 

 specimen is now in the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 

 al ( !ambridge, M 



Adult male taken during the autumn of 1888 at Manomet, South Ply- 

 mouth. It was alone in the COVe just south of Manomet Point. (H. K. 

 Job, Auk, Vol. XIII, No. 3, July, 1896, p. '20:5.; 



LTnsexed specimen taken at Marblelicad, Nov. 24, 1889. Now in the 

 collection of the Peabody Academy of Science al Salem. (Birds of Essex 

 County, C. W. Townsend, p. 142.) 



Juvenal male shot at Salisbury by Mr. Benj. F. Damsell on Nov. 24, 

 L889. (MSS. of Dr. G. M. Allen.) 



The species was observed at Wood's Hole, April 10, 1893, by Capt. V. N. 

 Edwards. (Prof. W. W. Cooke in litt.) 



Juvenal male taken at Muskeget Island, April 5, 1890. (Ornith. & Ool, 

 Vol. 15, No. 7, July, 1890, p. 110.) 



Juvenal male taken at Nantucket, Jan. lo, 1891. Collection of Mr. 

 William Brewster. 



The species observed al Wood's Hole on April 10 and Nov. 16, 1893, by 

 Capt. V. N. Edwards. (Prof. W. W. Cooke in litt | 



Two females shot on Lower My.- tie Bond, Arlington on Dec. 1. 1893, by 

 Mr. Geo. B. Frazar. (Birds of the Cambridge Region, William lire. 

 p. 122.) 



