64 General Notes. 



5. Mimus polyglottus. Mocking-Bird. — A young male, evidently 

 a wild bird, was shot by Mr. Mackay at Nantucket, October 8, 1878. 



Besides the above I have to record : — 



6. Macrorhamphus scolopaceus, Lmcr. — A female was shot at 

 Eastham by Mr. Frank L. Tileston, November 2, 1878. Without presum- 

 ing to decide whether this is entitled to rank even as a variety, the fact 

 remains that this bird was in a very different form from the common 

 M. (jriseus and was shot at a period much later than the latter bird has 

 been known to appear. 



7. Iiimosa hudsonica. Hudsonian Godwit. — A female was shot 

 by Mr. Tileston on Cape Cod, November 2, 1878 ; also late in the season 

 for this species. — T. M. Brewek, Boston, Mass. 



The Frigate Pelican in Nova Scotia. — The occurrence of 

 Tachypeles aquild so far from its usual range is a note of much interest, 

 the only instance previously recorded of its capture as far north even as 

 New England being a specimen taken at Faulkner's Island, Long Island, in 

 1859.* 



Mr. Andrew Downs of Halifax, N. S., to whom I am indebted for the 

 following information concerning its capture, writes me : " The Frigate 

 Bird which I sent to Boston was shot October 16, 1876, outside of Halifax 

 Harbor. It is the only one which has ever been seen here, and was driven 

 here by a strong southwest gale. It was very warm weather for the time 

 of year." The specimen, which is a fine adult male, is in the possession 

 of Mr. Charles J. Maynard of Newtonville, Mass. — Ruthven Deane, 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



FULMAUUS GLACIALIS ON THE MASSACHUSETTS CoAST. — In my 



Catalogue of the Birds of New England this bird is spoken of as gener- 

 ally supposed to be found off our coast, but as unsupported by fact. This 

 can be said of it no longer. On Monday, November 4, 1878, I saw a liv- 

 ing specimen of it in the yard of Mr. George O. Welch of Lynn, to whom 

 it had been sent to be mounted for the Smithsonian Institution. Mr. . 

 James W. Milner writes me that this specimen of the Fulmar Petrel was 

 taken by Captain William Sweet of the fishing-schooner Grace C. Had- 

 ley, " on a cod-hook, on the eastern part of George's Bank, which is a very 

 little south of cast of Boston, and certainly belongs to the New England 

 coast. It was taken October 28, 1878." — T. M. Brewer, 233 Beacon 

 Street, Boston, Afass. 



* American Naturalist, Vol. IX, p. 470, August, 1875. 



