iSgi-l General Notes. 23 T 



Reichenow, Anton, und Paul Matschie. Die Kennzeichen der deut- 

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American Journ. Sci., Jan. -March, 1S91. 



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Forest and Stream, XXXV, Nos. 24-26, XXXVI, Nos. 1-7. 



Humming Bird, The, I, Nos. i, 3, Jan. -March, 1891. 



Journal Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. XHI, No. 4, Jan. 1S91. 



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GENERAL NOTES. 



A Breeding Place of Pelecanus fuscus. — About the middle of March, 

 1882, while fishing and sailing on the Indian River, Florida, between 

 Rock Ledge and the Indian River Inlet, my boatman took me to see a 

 Pelican breeding place. The island where the birds bred-w^s about two 

 acres in extent, as near as I can remember, and not far from the east 

 shore of the river. It was opposite a point on the west bank of Indian 

 River, some two miles or more below the mouth of the St. Sebastian 

 River. As the tide was low we pushed our boat as far up towards the 

 land as we could, and waded ashore in the mud; landing through a gap 

 in the low mangroves that fringed the island. 



A dense mass of birds had risen at our approach and spread out over 

 the island like a cloud. This great flock was joined by the laggards as 

 we walked about; and the rush and roar of the flapping wings was tre- 

 mendous. There were hundreds of birds in the air— perhaps a thousand. 

 In tramping about, it was difficult to take a dozen steps in any one direc- 

 tion without treading on empty nests, fresh eggs, or young birds. Every 

 stage of development was seen, from the new egg to the downy, ridicu- 

 lous, full-grown young ones. The guano was so deep on the ground that 



