338 General Notes. [$g 



"The swan must have been asleep or dead tired as it never noticed me 

 until I had stepped out from the cover and walked 20 or 25 yards, when 

 all at once it raised up and I killed it the first shot." 



Mr. Potter's supposition that it was driven in by stress of weather is 

 borne out by the fact that the swan's stomach was empty. The bird, for 

 a swan, was not over fat, but sufficiently so to test the enthusiasm of any 

 but an old timer. — Frank S. Daggett, Oak Park, III. 



The Glossy Ibis in Central New York. — On May 11 of the present year 

 three Glossy Ibises (Plegadis autumnalis) were seen to alight in the Mon- 

 tezuma Marsh at the foot of Cayuga Lake, by Mr. Foster Parker, who shot 

 and preserved two of them. About ten says later he saw three others, 

 flying high over the marsh. 



Although the bird is of extremely irregular occurrence in the Middle 

 States, the fact that two separate companies were seen makes it probable 

 that others may have come this way, and it is hoped that this notice will 

 cause any other observers who have been so fortunate as to see the bird 

 to put it on record. — Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Ithaca, N . Y. 



Another Specimen of Cory's Bittern. — The University Museum, Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, has recently secured a specimen of Cory's Bittern 

 (Ardetta neoxena), a fact which it seems advisable to record in view of 

 the rareness of the species. This specimen was taken near Toledo, Ohio, 

 on May 25, 1907, by Mr. W. P. Holt. It was found with a large colony 

 of Least Bitterns (Ardetta exilis) in the swampy tract of country east of 

 Toledo. 



The specimen is an adult male, and is apparently typical of the species. 

 The crown is black, the front of the neck chestnut, and the abdomen, 

 tibia, and sides, smoky brown and chestnut, with a few white, and black 

 feathers. The lesser wing-coverts are black, the median wing-coverts 

 chestnut. 



The University Museum is indebted to Mr. W. P. Holt (the collector) 

 for this specimen. — Alexander G. Ruthven, University Museum, Uni- 

 versity of Michigan. 



The Little Blue Heron in Philadelphia County, Pa., in Spring. — The 

 Little Blue Heron (Florida ccerula) is of extremely rare occurrence in 

 the vicinity of Philadelphia during the spring, but it was the writer's 

 good fortune to see one of these interesting and fast-disappearing birds on 

 May 11, 1904. It was seen at Holmesburg, Philadelphia County, flying 

 slowly down the Pennypack Creek, above tidewater, toward the Delaware 

 River, up which it evidently had previously ascended. It was a male 

 and flew past within less than thirty feet of me, flying about twenty feet 

 above the water, and was well seen and its identity positively determined. 



