1884.] Geticral Notes. 2^1 



which he had shot in this place. I found them to be verj much mutilated 

 and hardly fit to be mounted, but I took the skin of one, as it was new to 

 me, and laid it away. On examining Audubon's 'North American Birds' 

 lately. I saw that the skin I had was that of the male Summer Red Bird. 

 I believe that the other bird, which I threw away at the time, it being too 

 much mutilated to do anything with, was a female of the same species. 

 It was only a few days ago that I learned that this bird is quite rare in 

 this section, and so communicate the particulars. The skin was also iden- 

 tified by Dr. A. K. Fisher. The boy who shot the two birds above men- 

 tioned told me at the time that he had seen others of the same kind, but 

 could not shoot them.— W. F. Hendrickson, Lo7ig Island, N. T. 



Vireo philadelphicus in Northern New York. — On the 21st of May 

 last Mr. A. R. Crosier, keeper of the Fair Haven Light, on Lake Ontario 

 (in Cayuga County, New York), sent me for identification a specimen of 

 the Philadelphia Vireo which had killed itself by flying against the glass 

 of the lantern at that station. — C. Hart Merriam, Locust Grove, N. Y. 



Vireo philadelphicus in the Adirondack Region. — On the afternoon of 

 May 22, 1SS4, while collecting data for the A. O. U. Committee on Mi- 

 gration, I secured a specimen of this rare bird. Dr. A. K. Fisher, of Sing 

 Sing, N. Y., who kindly identified it for me, says it is the first recorded 

 from the Adirondack Region. At the time of capture the bird was sitting 

 on a small bush at the edge of a dense alder swamp ; it was entirely alone, 

 and is the only one I have seen. — M. H. Turner, M. D., Hamtnondville, 

 Essex Co. , N. 7^. 



The Loggerhead Shrike again in Massachusetts. — On January 29, 

 18S4, Mr. Eastman of this place observed two Shrikes by the roadside vevy 

 near the centre of this village, apparently contending for the possession 

 of a small bird. One left as he approached, the other he secured, and it 

 proved to be a typical Lanius ludovicianus, male, in clear, bright plumage. 

 The prey was an English Sparrow. (Too bad to kill a bird engaged in 

 that business ! ) Perhaps these birds were members of one of the colonies 

 so lately discovered breeding to the north of us, as set forth in Bull. Nutt. 

 Club, 1S79, by Brewer (p. 119), and Purdie (p. 1S6), and exhaustivelv 

 by the former in Proc. Boston N. H. Soc, 1879, p. 226. — F. C. Browne, 

 Framingkam, Mass. 



^ Notes on 'Lanius cristatus' and 'L. borealis,' of Nelson's 'Birds of 

 Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean.' — I have read with the greatest in- 

 terest E. W. Nelson's account of the birds collected and seen during the 

 cruise of the steamer 'Corwin' in Alaska and the N. W. Arctic Ocean 

 (Washington, 1883). Mr. Nelson gives (p. 65) a detailed description of a 

 rufous Asiatic Shrike under the name of Lanius cristatus juv., which was 

 found in the vicinity of Wrangel Island. It was a dried specimen, a very 

 good figure of which, by Mr. Ridgway, is given, from which I see the bird 



