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Museum for a place of meeting, and for other courtesies extended; 

 to the Local Committee and other Washington members of the 

 Union, and to the Audubon Society of the District of Columbia, 

 for the cordial welcome and generous hospitality shown visiting 

 members. 



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

 commencing December 9, 1907. 



Jno. H. Sage, 



Secretary. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Capture of the Glaucous Gull {Larus glaucus) in Boston Harbor, Mass. 



— On April 23, 1906, while gunning in Boston Harbor, off Quincy, Mass., 

 with Mr. R. R. Freeman, we shot a Glaucous Gull (Larus glaucus). The 

 specimen was in slightly immature plumage, having faint brown markings 

 on the back and wings. It was in company with a flock of about four 

 hundred Herring Gulls and especially attracted attention by being the 

 only bird which, in response to calling and the waving of a handkerchief, 

 approached within gunshot. The identification of the specimen was 

 verified by Mr. William Brewster by the examination of one of the wings. 



— John A. Remick, Jr., Boston, Mass. 



Recent Occurrence of the European Teal and the Marbled Godwit 

 near Portland, Maine. — My collection contains a male European Teal 

 (Nettion crecca) which was shot in Casco Bay by a fisherman on April 6, 

 1903. I had the satisfaction of seeing it before it received the attentions 

 of a taxidermist, thus making perfectly sure that no deception was prac- 

 tised in the case. It is a remarkably beautiful and highly typical speci- 

 men. So far as I am aware, it is the first of its kind recorded for this 

 State. 



The Great Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa) is represented in my collec- 

 tion by a female shot on Scarborough Beach, August 16, 1904, by Mr. 

 George H. Cushman, a game warden. For many years the species has 

 been almost unknown in this locality. — Henry H. Brock, Portland, Me. 



Baird's Sandpiper at Newfound Lake. Hebron, N. H. — While on a 

 morning's collecting trip September 4, 1906, on the marshes at the head 

 of Newfound Lake, Hebron, N. H., we obtained a specimen of Baird's 



