I 8 General Notes. 



Oologists' Exchann;c, I, Apr., iSSS. 



Ornithologist aiul Oologist, XIII, Nos. 4, 5, 18SS. 



Ornis, J:ihr. Ill, Heft 4, Jahr. IV, Heft i, 2, iSSS. 



Ottawa Naturalist, II, Nos. i, 2, iSSS. 



Proceedings Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., iSSS, pt. i. Jan. -Feb 



Proceedings Biol. Soc. Washington, IV, iSSS. 



Swiss Cross, III, Apr.-June, iSSS. 



Western Naturalist, II, Apr., iSSS. 



Zoologischen Anzeiger, Nos. 274-280, 188S. 



Zoologist, XIII, Apr.-June, 1SS8. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Occurrence of Larus marinus on the Southern Coast of New Jersey. — 



While on a ducking expedition at Atlantic Citj, N. J., I observed, during 

 and after the 'blizzard' of last March (1S8S), three or four specimens of 

 the Great Black -backed Gull soaring about as familiarly- and with as wary 

 impudence as is their wont in more northern latitudes. 



Though unable to procure a specimen, I was assured bj Capt. Sam. 

 Gale of the same place that they were of yearly occurrence on that coast 

 during winter, and that he had a standing offer from a local taxidermist of 

 five dollars for every specimen taken, but that so far he had only procured 

 one. So certain was I of my own identification, I did not think it neces- 

 sary to verify it by personal examination of the specimen referred to. I 

 am quite confident that Nuttall's extension of the winter range of this Gull 

 to the '-sea coasts of the extreme Southern vStates" is yet capable of veri- 

 fication as far south as the entire coast of Virginia. Indeed so storm-lov- 

 ing, erratic, and solitary a species as this, sets all petty limits at defiance, 

 to the distraction of note-taker and book-maker alike; and, as soon as 

 you have him booked for residence in Cape May, presto, the next cold 

 wave wafts him to Cape Charles and you begin to understand how it got 

 into print that I.arus marinus "extends its residence in America as far as 

 Paraguay!"* — Sam'l N. Riioads, HaddonficUl, Nc-v Jersey. 



The Yellow-nosed Albatross ( Thalassogeron culviinatus'). — In 'The Auk' 

 for Januar}', 18SS, Mr. Montague Chamberlain of St. John, N. B., men- 

 tions his having seen the skin of this bird in the Laval University, 

 (^iiebec. The bird in question was killed on the 20th of August, 1SS5, ^t 

 the entrance of River Moisic, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence. It 

 was shot by a fisherman named Couillard Despres. I saw the bird a few 

 days after it was shot, but coidd not identif)' the species. I sent a short 

 description of it to Dr. C. II. Merriam. 



* Nuttall's Ornithology, Water Birds, p. 308. 



