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and have recorded one or more of these, recent occurrences are re- 

 garded as sufficiently interesting to record. Captain James G. 

 Scott sent me an almost perfectly adult female specimen, which was 

 killed at Montauk, November 14, 1906. 



Acanthis linaria. Lesser Redpoll. — Never having previously 

 observed the Redpoll on Long Island, it was with pleasure that 

 two were seen in Prospect Park, Brooklyn on March 5, 1907. 

 The two, observed at close range, were even less timid than the 

 common English Sparrow, as I came within little more than a 

 yard's length of the nearest. They found something to pick at 

 on the snow mounds at the edge of the walk, and as they flew I 

 was interested to note the similarity of flight and call-notes to those 

 of the Goldfinch, for which I might easily have mistaken them 

 under less favorable conditions for observation. 



Hylocichla aonalaschkse pallasii. Hermit Thrush. — Mr. Wm. 

 Dutcher has related in 'The Auk' (III, 1886, p. 443) the evi- 

 dence obtained favoring the probable occurrence of this thrush as 

 a summer resident on Long Island, but as no further data 

 appeared in relation to the matter the possibility of its being a 

 breeding species remained problematical. In reply to an inquiry, 

 Mr. Arthur H. Howell kindly wrote me that he has twice heard 

 the notes of what he regarded without doubt as the Hermit Thrush 

 in summer on Long Island, during the time of his collecting here. 

 He had once heard it at Lake Ronkonkoma north of the lake, and 

 again near Coram on the old bicycle path which crosses the center 

 of the island, connecting Port Jefferson and Patchogue. On 

 both occasions the song was heard in the low range of hills running 

 the length of Long Island. To obtain if possible further informa- 

 tion regarding the species as a summer resident, Mr. George K. 

 Cherrie and I journeyed to Lake Ronkonkoma on June 9, 1906, 

 whence on foot we covered as much of the ground in the east and 

 north as we were able on that day. The list of species which we 

 made proved most interesting to us. The object of our search was 

 not met with until almost at the end of our stay, when a single 

 immature Hermit Thrush was shot. This was the only thrush of 

 any species and the only individual of this species seen on that date. 

 It was found in a wood of mostly deciduous timber. In the 

 tracts where the pines predominated Prairie Warblers, Mourning 



