18S4.] Merriam o?i Birds of the Adirondack Rr<rion. CO 



It will thus be seen that this individual is smaller than the average of 

 the males of Mr. Bicknell's type specimens taken in the Catskills,* and is 

 also smaller than those killed by Mr. Brewster on Mt. Washington.! 



207. Cistothorus stellaris. Short-billed Marsh Wrex. — Mr. 

 Romeyn B. Hough shot two females of this Wren, October 27, 1877, in 

 the town of New Bremen in Lewis County, and writes me that he is "con- 

 fident that they breed there every year." 



208. Dendroeca tigrina. CapeT May Warbler. — Dr. A. K. Fisher in- 

 forms me that he has seen a specimen of this species that was killed at 

 Lake George, May 27, 1883, by Oliver B. Lockhart. The late Mr. A. Jen- 

 ings Dayan told me, not long before his death, that he was positive that 

 he had seen a Cape May Warbler in the town of Lyonsdale, in Lewis 

 County, but not having secured the specimen he was unwilling to have 

 the event recorded. 



209. Herodias egretta. Great White Heron. — Dr. A. K. Fisher writes 

 me that "a large white Heron was seen in tlie marsh at the head of Dun- 

 ham's Bay, Lake George, Warren County, N.Y., for a period of a week or 

 more in the latter part of May or first of June, 18S3. It was seen by a 

 number of i-esidents of the neighborhood, its color rendering it very con- 

 spicuous, and was shot at several times at long range without effect." 



210. Sterna fuHginosa. Sooty Tern. — Through the courtesy of the 

 Curator of Ornithology, Mr. William Brewster, I have been permitted to 

 examine an immature mounted specimen of the Sooty Tern which is in 

 the Museum of the Boston Society of Natural History. It was secured at 

 Lake Champlain, September 6, 1S76, by Jenness Richardson. The bird has 

 not, to my knowledge, been previously taken so far inland; but it must be 

 remembered that the date of its capture (Sept., 1S76) is the same as that 

 of the extraordinarj' influx of this species into New England. J 



2X1. Hydrochelidon lariformis. Black Tern. — Mr. Thomas B. Osborne 

 of New Haven, Conn., has recently sent me a skin of a young Tern of 

 this species that he killed at Schroon Lake (in Warren and Essex Coun- 

 ties) on the i8th of August, 1876. Mr. Osborne writes me: "'I killed 

 three Terns at Schroon Lake out of a flock of perhaps half a dozen. They 

 were all in the same plumage as the one I send you [which is a young-of- 

 the-year bird]. I have been at Schroon Lake four Augusts but never saw- 

 any Terns there, of this or other species, excepting the flock from which 

 these specimens were procured." 



* Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. IV, 1882, pp. 377-379. 



t Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, Vol. VIII, Jan. 1883, pp. 12-17. 



X Merriam 's Review Birds Connecticut, 1877, pp. 134-135. 



