loo General Nates. 



bird, which was in immature plumage, was shot in the harbor near the 

 city in November, 18S0. The skin was afterwards forwarded to the Smith- 

 sonian Institution where it was identified. 



In a hurried glance through the various New England lists I do not find 

 the species anywhere mentioned, excepting by Herrick, who gives it (Bull. 

 Essex Inst., Vol. V, 1873) as a " winter visitant" at Grand Menan. The 

 occurrence of the present specimen so near our eastern border is therefore 

 of no little interest. — William Brewster, Cambridge, Mass. 



A Correction. — In this Bulletin, this Vol.. p. 75. has not Dr. Sclater 

 left a singular slip of the pen, in saying that theTrogonidce are " the only 

 form of the whole class of birds in which the fourth or outer digit is re- 

 versed instead of the second." For "fourth or outer" read "second or 

 inner"; and for "second" read "fourth." — Elliott Coues, Ft. Whipple. 

 Arizona. 



Migration of Birds at Night. — On the 16th of April last, at Prince- 

 ton, Mr. J. A. Allen and myself made the following observations with the 

 aid of the telescope. We noted in about three-quarters of an hour thirteen 

 birds passing the field of the instrument. Nine were going from the 

 south to the north, three in the opposite direction, i. e. from the north to 

 the south, and a single bird was flying from the east to the west. Four of 

 these birds we determined from their shape and flight to be Swallows, the 

 others being small land birds which we could not decide on save in one 

 case, where the bird was unquestionably some species of the genus Tardus. 

 The moon was ik° to io° in altitude during these observations and 

 consequently the birds were flying comparatively low. — W. E. D. Scott, 

 Princeton, N. J. 



[I take this opportunity to correct a mistake inadvertently made in my 

 note to Mr. Scott's paper on the "Migration of Birds" published in the last 

 number of the Bulletin (Vol. VI, p. 100), where in line three of the second 

 paragraph "four" should read two; i. e., the birds seen may have ranged 

 in elevation from one to two miles, instead of " one to four miles," as there 

 stated. — J. A. Allen.] 



Birds and Windows. — Reading in the April Bulletin the note by 

 Mr. Lucas on "Birds and Windows" brings to mind that when in business 

 in Hartford, Conn., in 1871 and 1872, I found in the spring the following 

 birds that had been killed by flying against the Charter Oak Life Ins. Co.'s 

 building — a very high building with "the windows opposite one another." 

 Mviodioctes canadensis, Geothlyfis trickas, Icterus baltimorc, Chcetura 

 pclasgia, Trockilus colubris (6 specimens). — John H. Sage, Portland, 

 Conn. 



