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from Georgia. As far as I am aware this is the first recorded capture of 

 this species within the State. Dr. Morris Gibbs in his List of the Birds 

 of Michigan, 1S79, admits it on the authority of Hon. D. D. Hughes of 

 Grand Rapids, but cites no recorded example having been taken. — Jerome 

 TrOmbley, Petersburg, Munroe County, Michigan. 



Garzetta candidissima at Nantucket, Massachusetts. — Visiting 

 the above-named island, Aug. 12, 18S2, I saw in the shop of Mr. H. S. 

 Sweet, a mounted specimen of the Little White or Snowy Egret, which 

 he said was shot near the south-west shore, at Hummock pond, last 

 March, by one of the men of the Life-saving Station. A straggler to 

 New England, the species has occurred far less frequently than its larger 

 relative the White Heron {Herodias egretta), and this capture in early 

 spring is remarkable. — 11. A. Purdie, Nervton, Mass. 



The Snow Goose {C/ien hyperboreus) at Sing Sing, New York. — 

 On the morning of April 9th, 1882, a large flock of two or three hundred 

 Snow Geese visited this place. They alighted several times at the mouth 

 of the Croton, where it empties into the Hudson, but being disturbed by 

 the gunners, who were anxious for a shot at them, they at last flew farther 

 up the river. I examined them by the aid of a powerful field-glass, at a 

 distance of a few hundred yards, and being on elevated ground I could look 

 down upon the flock and easily distinguish the black wing-tips of the 

 adults as they flew. A few days previous I saw a single individual flying, 

 who seemed to be taking the lay of the country. I was informed that the 

 flock again passed down the river on the night of the loth. — A. K. 

 Fisher, M. D., Sing Sing, JV. T. 



Note on the Long-tailed Duck. — On February 5, iSSi, one of my 

 friends procured a male specimen of the Long-tailed Duck {Harelda gla- 

 cialis), at Latrobe, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania. The bird was shot 

 on the only unfrozen spot noticed on the creek at the time — it was during 

 the coldest "snap" of the season — and was in a very emaciated condition. 

 The occurrence of this species so far inland (west of and near the moun- 

 tains) is noteworthy. It was altogether unknown to the gunners there- 

 abouts, and was brought to me for identification. — Chas. H. Townsend, 

 Acad. A^at. Sciences, PhiladelpJtia. 



LOMVIA ARRA BRUNNICHI AND L. TROILE IN NeW ENGLAND. — Mr. 



Merrill's note on these birds in the July number of this Bulletin (p. 

 191) was a timely correction of a long established error, for the common 

 Murre found in winter off" the New England coast is, as he has stated, 

 Lomvia arra brilnnichi, and not L. troile. At different times during the 

 past ten years I have examined' specimens from various points along the 

 shores of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, and all of the nu- 

 merous birds that have come under my notice have proved to be Briinnich's 



