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1891.J C cue rn I Notes:. 233 



Some Rookeries on the Gulf Coast of Florida. — In :x l;ite ti umber of 

 'The Auk' (Vol. VII, p. 221) Mr. W. E. D. Scott .states that "there are 

 absolutely no Heron rookeries on the Gulf coast of Florida, from Anclote 

 Keys to Cape Sable." Mr. Scott has overlooked at least one rookery of 

 fair size. 



From April 19 to May 9, 1S90, I was cruising along the Gulf coast, 

 starting from Little Sarasota Bay, going as far as Ten Thousand Islands, 

 and returning to the point of starting. My object was to take eggs of 

 the various species said to breed along the coast. Moving along leisurely, 

 rarely making more than twenty miles a day, the shore and islands were 

 examined very closely. 



Going south the only rookery noticed was one at the entrance to Char- 

 lotte Harbor, east of Pine Island; it was on a small mangrove island, and 

 only Brown Pelicans and Florida Cormorants were breeding on it, prob- 

 ably four or five hundred pairs. Another one, also of Pelicans and Cor- 

 morants, about a hundred pairs I judged, occupied a mangrove island 

 about fifteen miles southeast of Cape Romano. 



On returning northward Pine Island was passed on the west side, 

 through San Carlos Bay. A Pelican and Cormorant rookery on a small 

 mangrove island was examined, and more than two hundred nests were 

 counted on it. Opposite Captive Pass I was attracted to a mangrove 

 island about two liundred yards long and a hundred yards wide by seeing 

 a large flock of Frigate Pelicans circling about high above it. The boat 

 was pointed towards it and on nearer approach several Herons were seen 

 flying to and from the island. It was covered with mangroves, red and 

 black species, tall slender trees forty feet in height. About sixty or 

 seventy Herons' nests were examined, not inore than a fifth of the num- 

 ber seen ; the two species breeding were the Louisiana Heron and the 

 Reddish Egret. One Egret's nest was found to five of the Louisiana 

 Heron. The majority held young birds at this date, May 3. Many Cor- 

 morants also were nesting with them liut no Brown Pelicans' nests were 

 found and none of the Frigate Pelicans'; none of the latter alighted on 

 the island while I remained. 



Ten nests of the Great Blue Heron, two holding young ready to fly, 

 were noticed on a small island two or three miles from the heronry; 

 about fifty pairs of Cormorants were nesting with them. — H. K. Jamison, 

 Maiiayunk, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Migration of the Red P'ha\3iro'p& (^Crymophiltis fulicarius). — During a 

 four weeks' cruise to the Gulf of St. Lawrence last spring, I gained con- 

 siderable information concerning the migration of the Red Phalarope. I 

 sailed from Gloucester on May 24, and the first Phalaropes were seen on 

 the following day, being more or less abumlaiit until reaching Cape 

 Breton Island. They were not again seen until, passing Cape North, we 

 entereii the Gult Ol St. Lawience. The exact positi(ni of the first birds 

 seen was lat. 43"^ 2', long. 69' 13', or 132 inile.-- \\'. i)\ N. of Seal Island 

 on the Nova Scotia coast. At this point seven were seen at 11 a.m.. 



