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uted to their having been blown north by a southerly storm, which com- 

 menced as far south as the West Indies about the 16th of August, and 

 raged along the entire coast, reaching the Maine shore two days later. 

 The storm was particularly severe off the Virginia coast, and Mr. William 

 Brewster, who collected on Cobb's Island, off Norfolk, in September, in- 

 forms me that the scarcity of a number of species which are generally com- 

 mon there was caused by their having been blown north by the gale of 

 the previous month. 



Through the kindness of Mr. Horace R. True I have recently examined 

 an adult specimen of Sterna fuliginosa, which was captured alive in the 

 town of Parkman, Piscataquis Co., Me., some eighty miles from the coast, 

 October 5, 1878. It was picked up in the road in an exhausted condition, 

 and died the next morning. 



Mr. True writes me that another Tern was seen in the same locality the 

 following day, which may have been one of this species. — Ruthven 

 Deane, Cambridge, Mass. 



The Caspian Tern probably breeding in Florida. — In the 

 October number of the Bulletin (Vol. IV, p. 243) I see the Caspian Tern 

 (Sterna caspia) recorded as being found on the coast of Virginia and 

 breeding there. I would say I shot the bird at Lake Jessup, Florida, the 

 13th of March, 1876. There was a large flock of them. T also saw speci- 

 mens shot near Tampa Bay (by Mr. Everett Smith, of Portland, Me.) late 

 in May, and I have no doubt they wei-e breeding there. I do not think 

 the Caspian Tern is very rare in Florida, but it is taken for the Royal Tern. 

 We see them here in Maine, on their migrations, about the 20th of May, 

 and again in September. — G. A. Boardman, Milltown, Me. 



