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by two men from Westchester County, told Mr. Boardman it had prob- 

 ablv been killed in that locality. Mr. Boardman published a note to 

 that effect in the "Rod and Gun" (Vol. VII, Dec. 4, 1875, p. 153). 

 When Mr. Wallace again met one of the men who had brought him the 

 bird, he learned that the man and his companion were fishing in a boat 

 not far from Flushing when they saw the Hawk perched upon a tree on 

 the shore, and having a gun with them they easily secured it. — De L. 

 Berif.k. Fort Hamilton, Long Island, N. T. 



Probable Occurrence of Sarcorh wiimii s papa in Arizona. — There 

 has long been recorded (Pr. Phila. Acad.. [866, p — ) a note of mine to the 

 effect that I saw on the Rio Verde, in Arizona, a pair of birds that I sup- 

 posed to be King Vultures. Mr. Willard Rice, an amateur naturalist of 

 excellent powers of observation and long experience, who was with me on 

 the occasion to which I refer, and to whom I pointed out the birds, told 

 me the other day that he remembered the circumstances perfectly well, 

 and thai some years afterward, on the Verde again, he shot and killed a 

 pair of birds which he has no doubt were of the same kind. They had a 

 nest in a large cotton-wood tree. From his description of the specimens, 

 which unfortunately were not preserved, 1 suppose them to be the Vulture 

 in mention. But is not the fact of tree-nesting entirely against such sup- 

 position? I consider it established, however, that there occurs in Arizona 

 a large rapacious bird, brownish or tawnj above, white below, and naked 

 headed, of some species as vet undetermined. — Elliot Cocks, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



NYCTHERODIUS VIOLACEUS in Kansas. — April 17. 1878, Samuel W. 

 Recti shot, on Crooked Creek, in Coffee County, a female Yellow-crowned 

 Night Heron, and sent me the skin for identification. The bird was in full 

 breeding plumage, and Mr. Reed stated in a note accompanying the bird 

 that he found on dissection six or seven of the eggs enlarged to from one- 

 eighth to three-fourths of an inch in diameter — also that another bird. 

 probably her mate, was with her. 



From this and the further fact that I have shot at this place in the 

 months of July and August young birds (a pair of which I have in mv 

 collection). I think it safe to say they occasionally nest in the State. The 

 young, as happens with the White, Snowy, and Little Blue Heron*, may 

 have wandered north from their breeding grounds, but there can be no 

 question that the adult birds would have nested in the vicinity. — N. S. 

 Goss. Ncos/10 F<i//s, Kansas. 



Capture of the Snowy Heron (Garzetta candidissimd) on Long 



Island. — Although the habitat of this species includes this region as well 

 as the greater part of New England, I consider it worth the while to record 

 its capture here, as it is now rare so far to the North. Mr. John M. Rod- 

 ocanachi shot a fine specimen on Cedar Island, Great South Bay. Long 

 Island, on August 4, 1881, which he kindly sent to me. — Locis A. Zer- 

 ega, hi East 72nd St.. Netu York City. 



