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The Louisiana Heron in Indiana. — My friend Mr. F. T. Jencks, 

 of Providence, R. I., -writes me that on the 26th of June, 1876, while pass- 

 ing through a hirge marsh between Plymouth and Hanna, on the line of 

 the Pittsburg and Fort Wayne Railroad, in Northern Indiana, he saw a 

 fine adult specimen of Demiegretta lucloviciana spring up close beside the 

 railroad-track and fly off in full view. As Mr. Jencks is well acquainted 

 with the species in question, I have no doubt of the correctness of his 

 identification. — E. W. Nelson, CJiicago, III. 



Note on the Cinnamon Teal {Querquedula cyanoptera). — A small 

 lake, which feeds one of the headwaters of the North Platte, in North 

 Park, Colorado, was found to be a breeding-place of large numbers of wild 

 Geese {Branta canadensis) and other water-fowl, among which Wigeons 

 (Mareca americana), Shovellers (Spatula clypeata), and the species the 

 name of which heads this paragraph, were the most numerous. I was 

 on the spot too late in the season to take eggs, but newly-fledged birds 

 of each of the three sj^ecies of Ducks mentioned, as well as old birds in 

 moult, were secured or observed. The Cinnamon Teal here seemed to 

 replace the common Blue-winged, none of which were ascertained to 

 occur. The spot was on the Atlantic side of the main water-shed, though 

 practically on the divide, as it was only a day's march from the edge of 

 Middle Park, the waters of wdiich area flow into the Colorado of the West 

 and so into the Gulf of California. The Teal associated as usual with 

 various other kinds of Ducks, and no peculiarity of habits was noted. 

 Two young birds were captured alive, in a natural excavation of an em- 

 bankment, in Avhich they had apparently crawled to hide, as the hole 

 showed no traces of a nest. — Elliott Coues, Washincjton, D. C. 



jEgiothus exilipes in Europe. — It may be interesting to the read- 

 ers of the Bulletin to learn that one of the two Redpoles procured upon 

 the Petchora River in Northeastern Russia, in 1875, by Mr. Henry See- 

 bohm and myself, and on a former occasion, at Archangel, by Mr. E. R. 

 Alston and myself, has turned out to be identical with ^giothihs exilijoes, 

 Coues. We are thus able to extend the distribution of that species ino 

 European Russia as far as Archangel (40° E. longitude from Greenwich). 

 This species was also procured by M. Severtzoff", in Turkestan. In our 

 papers in the "Ibis," January, 1873, p. 64, and " Ibis," January, 1876, we 

 have erroneously named this bird ^. rufescens, which name is only appli- 

 cable to the form found in Great Britain, and migrating southward in 

 winter. The other species found in North Russia is true Linota linaria, 

 Linn. JEgiotlms cxiliptes, Coues, will thus probably be found to be almost 

 circumpolar in its distribution, as it is reasonable to suppose that it is the 

 common species occurring throughout Northern Siberia in summer. Ref- 

 erences to notices of this species in Europe will be found in the " Ibis " as 

 above quoted, in the "Zoologist" for January, 1877, and in an Appendix 

 Mr. Seebohm and myself are preparing to our " Notes of the Birds of the 



