6o General Notes. 



the beach at the south of the hotel. It vva.s alone, though there were 

 several flocks of other Plovers near at hand. In note and actions it 

 closely resembled the Piping Plover, but was larger and lighter colored. 

 Capt. Hall called it the ' Pale Ring-neck,' and said he had seen it at the 

 Gurnet before." The description given by Mr. Fiske (length 7.75 inches; 

 bill fully I inch, black," etc.) leaves no doubt that the bird was Wilson's 

 Plover.- — Elliott Coues. Washing-toii, D. C. 



Capture of Baird's Sandpiper on Long Island. — On September 

 22, 18S0, I shot a specimen of Tringa bairdi on Montauk, Long Island. 

 The bird was in a flock of " Peeps" (£;-cw«ci'^5^«5/7/«5), feeding on the 

 beach of Great Pond, a brackish lake often in communication with the 

 Sound. It so closely resembled the '' Peeps" that I only noticed it on 

 account of its larger size. The skin I preserved, though badly cut by the 

 shot. — Daniel E. Moran, Brooklyn, JV. T. 



[This is apparently the first known occurrence of this species on the 

 Atlantic Coast south of New England. — Edd.] 



An Addition to the Maine Fauna. — On Octobers, iSSi, I received 

 from Mr. Alpheus G. Rogers, of Portland, an immature specimen of 

 Rallus elegans, the King Rail, which he shot on Scarborough Marsh, on 

 the morning of that day. This species is new to the State of Maine, and 

 has occurred in New England only about half a dozen times. 



Its previous New England record is as follows : (i) Stratford, Conn., 

 breeding. Linsley, Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, Vol. XLIV, No. 2, p. 267. 

 (2) Portland. Conn., one specimen: (3) Saybrook, Conn., one spec- 

 imen, Merriam, Rev. Birds Conn., p. 115. (4) Nahant, Mass., one spec- 

 imen, Purdie, this Bulletin, Vol. II, p. 22. (5) Sudbury ISIeadows, Mass., 

 one specimen, Purdie, this Bulletin, Vol. Ill, p. 146. — Nathan Clif- 

 ford Brown, Portland, Maine. 



Capture of Lams leuropterus near Boston. — -In November last 

 Mr. Charles I. Goodale showed me an immature specimen of Larus 

 leticopterus in the flesh, which he stated was shot near Boston. The bird 

 is now in my collection. — Charles B. Cory, Boston, Mass. 



The Great Black-backed Gull {Lams viarlnus) from a new 

 Locality. — Mr. Howard Saunders, in his excellent synopsis of the 

 LarincB (P. Z. S., 1S7S, pp. 155-212), p. iSo, in defining the known range 

 of this species, says that there is '• no record from the American side of 

 the Pacific," but that he had " examined undoubted specimens from Japan," 

 this being considered " a very great extension of its previously known 

 range." During the present year the National Museum has received 

 specimens of this species, in alcohol, from Herald Island, in the Arctic 

 Ocean, northwest of Behring's Straits, and from Port Clarence on the 

 American side of the Straits, the former collected by Captain C. M. 

 Hooper, of the U. S. Revenue Cutter " Corwin," the latter by Dr. T. H. 

 Bean, of the National Museum. — Robert Ridgway, Washington. D. C. 



