394 General No/es. fOctolicr 



Journal Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., XIV, Nos. i, 2, 1S91. 



Observer, The, II, Nos. 6-8, 1891. 



Ornithologist and Botanist, I, Nos. 7, S, Jnlj, Aug., 1891. 



Ornithologisches Jahrbuch, II, pt. 4, July, 1891. 



Ornithologist and Oologist, July, August, 1891. 



Ottawa Naturalist, V, Nos. 4, 5, 1S91. 



Proceedings of Linn;ean Society of New York, Abstract of, 1891. 



Wisconsin Naturalist, I, Nos. 11, 13, June, July, 1891. 



Zoologist, July-Sept. 1891. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The Yellow-legs (^Totaniis Jiavipes) Breeding in Ontario County, 

 N. Y. — A pair of Yellow-legs {^Totanusjlainfcs) remained this season 

 and bred in a wet pasture in company with Killdeers {.-^gialitis 

 vocifera) and Spotted Sandpipers {Acttiis macularia). I do not know 

 of any former record of their breeding in the County. The owner of the 

 pasture, who is somewhat of a sportsman, and who first called my attention 

 to the birds, would not permit their being disturbed, as he was anxious that 

 they sliould make it a regular breeding ground. I repeatedly saw the birds 

 at close quarters and fully identified them. During the latter part of June 

 I noticed four young accompanying the parents who permitted of much 

 closer approach than formerly. The young were about half grown 

 and I endeavored to catch one of them but they eluded pursuit and finally 

 escaped into a swamp close at hand. — B. S. Bowdish, Phelps^ N. T. 



The Turkey Vulture {Cafhartes aura) in Ontario County, N. Y. — 

 July 3 Charles Donell^-, a young sportsman of this place, shot a Turkey 

 V^ulture i^Cafliartes aura) which was one of a flock of eight, seen in the 

 vicinity of a marshy wood. On the 5th the bird was presented to me, 

 and although in poor condition — being badly shot — was preserved as a 

 good specimen. The bird is a female. The flock remained in the vicin- 

 ity the entire afternoon, but the next morning were gone, and none have 

 been seen since. This is, so far as I know, the first record of the bird 

 being taken in the County. — B. S. Bowdish, Phelps, N. T. 



An Abnormal Specimen ofCoccyzus maynardi. — A peculiar example of 

 what is probably' Coccyzus maynardi has been lately received from 

 Inagua, Bahamas. The bird has the general appearance and marking of 

 C. maynardi, but the head, neck, and underparts are plumbeous gray, 

 and the back and upper tail-coverts ash-gray. The quills are pale brown 

 and the tail-feathers black, which, with the exception of the two central 

 feathers are tipped with white. The bird, a female, was taken near North- 

 west Point, Inagua, May 28, 1891. — Charles B. Cok\, Boston, Mass. 



