110 General Notes. [f£* 



The species noted by Capt. V. N. Edwards at Wood's Hole on April 10 

 and Nov. 11, 1894. (Prof. W. W. Cooke in litt.) 



Adult male taken Nov. 15, 1895, at Manomet Point. (H. K. Job, Auk, 

 Vol. 13, No. 3, July, 1896, p. 203.) 



Juvenal male taken at Nippenicket Pond, Bridgewater on Oct. 21, 1899, 

 by Mr. Joseph E. Bassett. According to Mr. Bassett's journal there was a 

 northeast storm on the 20th shifting to a cold N. W. gale on the 21st. The 

 specimen is now in the collection of Mr. Arthur C. Dyke of Bridgewater 

 from whom I learned these details though the capture of the bird has been 

 recorded. (A. C. Bent, Auk, Vol. XIX, No. 2, April, 1902, p. 196.) 



Female taken at Monomoy, April 8, 1905, by Mr. C. Otto Zerrahn of 

 Milton, and now in his collection. It was in a flock of about ten American 

 Eiders. 



Male in nearly full plumage taken by a gunner at Manomet Point, Nov. 

 26, 190S, and now in my collection. It was in company with two females 

 or juvenal males of apparently the same species for they passed near enough 

 to me to note that they seemed more stockily built and had shorter heads 

 than the American Eider with which I am familiar. 



Four juvenal males and 4 females shot on Feb. 3, 1909, near the Hen and 

 Chicken reef off Westport. Four of these are in the collection of Mr. A. C. 

 Bent of Taunton, and the rest in the collection of the Bristol County Acad- 

 emy of Sciences at Taunton. (Mr. A. C. Bent in litt.) 



Two specimens taken at Martha's Vineyard on Nov. 17, 1911. There 

 were four birds in the flock. These specimens were sent to Mr. Owen 

 Durfee of Fall River. — W. Spkague Brooks, Milton, Mass. 



Brazilian Tree-duck (Dendrocygna viduata) in New Jersey. — ■ Early 

 last October I learned of the receipt, by Thomas Rowland, taxidermist, 

 of New York, of an unrecognized Duck, reported to have been killed in New- 

 Jersey ami sent to the taxidermist for preservation. The specimen is a 

 Brazilian Tree-duck killed on the Hackensack Meadows in New Jersey, 

 by Hon. John W. Griggs, of Paterson, N. J. 



Governor Griggs was returning down the Hackensack River from a shoot- 

 ing excursion, when he saw this Duck resting on a drift log at a place where 

 the tide overflowed the meadow, about a mile and a half above the village 

 of Hackensack. As the bird was at once seen to be unusual, Governor 

 Griggs shot it. It was not at all shy. 



The specimen showed no signs of ever having been in captivity, but in 

 any event its occurrence at liberty in New Jersey seems worth recording. — 

 George Bird Grinnell, New York City. 



An Addition to the A. O. U. Check-List. — Through the kindness of 

 Mr. Gardner Perry of Dedham, Mass., I am able to record the following 

 interesting capture. 



In March, 1912, while shooting at Cape Canaveral, Florida, Mr. Perry 

 secured a Bahama Duck (Pcecilo7ictta bahamensis (Linn.)). LJnfortunately 



