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Sooty Tern (Sterna fuscata) . A specimen — adult male — was caught 

 alive within a few miles of Raleigh on June 30 of this year. It did not 

 attempt to fly when pursued and was easily captured by hand. I received 

 it in the flesh the next day, it having died during the night. The body 

 was much emaciated, but showed no signs of injury. 



Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius). On February 23, 1909, the 

 State Museum at Raleigh received a specimen in the flesh from M. Leslie 

 Davis, of Beaufort, N. C. This specimen was picked up on the beach near 

 Beaufort the previous day. I often hear of small "web-footed" birds 

 being observed in some numbers along our coast after a heavy storm and 

 imagine that phalaropes are not uncommon under such conditions. — 

 H. H. Brimley, Curator, State Museum, Raleigh, N. C. 



Notes from Crawford Notch, N. H. — At the summit of the Crawford 

 Notch, New Hampshire, some two thousand feet above sea level and in 

 the heart of the White Mountain region, is a small clearing surrounded on 

 all sides by forest. Among many species to be expected here I have 

 found the following which seem worth noting and which were not included 

 in my list of Crawford birds. 1 



1. Larus argentatus. Herring Gull. — On September 25, 1907, 

 three of these birds visited the Notch. Two of them remained in the air 

 while the third alighted for a few moments on Saco Lake, a tiny sheet of 

 water. Another example occurred on September 25, 1908. It remained 

 the greater part of the forenoon. 



2. Calidris arenaria. Sanderling. A single bird passed the after- 

 noon of August 18, 1909, on the shore of Saco Lake. The bird, which 

 arrived during a rain storm, was very tame. 



3. ^Sgialitis semipalmata. Semipalmated Plover. — On September 

 3, 1908, during a northeast rain storm a single bird in company with a 

 Semipalmated Sandpiper remained for a few moments on a sand bar in 

 Saco Lake. The bird was easily approached. 



4. Passer domesticus. English Sparrow. — Up to the season of 1909 

 I had noted only one individual of this species — in August, 1905. 2 In 

 1909, however, several birds occurred and at least one pair nested. 



5. Oporornis agilis. Connecticut Warbler. — Late in the afternoon 

 of September 27, 1907, a mild, cloudy clay, one of these birds flew against 

 a window of the hotel and was killed. It was preserved and is in my 

 possession. — Richard Merrill Marble, Brookline, Mass. 



Additions to the List of Birds of Allegany and Garrett Counties, Western 

 Maryland. — Since publishing the above-named list (Auk, Vol. XXI) I 



1 A List of Birds found within a radius of one mile from the Crawford House , 

 N. H., September 20, 1907. 



[See below, p. 446, for further mention of this paper. — Edd.] 



2 List, page 6. 



