316 General Notes. Tae 
Rectrices of Cormorants. — Phalacrocorax carbo has 14 rectrices, but 
none of our other species of this genus is known to have more than 12. 
This is the primary basis of the analysis which has stood in the ‘Key’ 
since 1872. I was therefore surprised to find Ridgway’s ‘ Manual’ 
crediting both P. fenzcillatus and P. perspicillatus with 14. On confer- 
ring with him about it, P. penzczllatus was found to have no more than 
12, as I had always supposed. The only statement regarding P. perspz- 
cillatus that I know of —being Brandt’s, as first published in Pr. U.S. 
Nat. Mus., XII, 1889, p. 86 — gives the tail as “‘e pennis 12 composita.””— 
ELLiotr Couss, Washington, D. C. 
Concordance of Merganser americanus. —I am sorry to point out an 
extraordinary oversight in the 2d ed. of the A. O. U. Check-List, where 
the concordance of the common American Merganser is given as “B—, 
C—,R—, C—,” as if neither Prof. Baird, nor Mr. Ridgway, nor myself 
had given this bird in our respective Lists. The dashes should be replaced 
by figures, as B 611, C 521, R 636, C 743, which so stand, correctly, in the 
1st ed. of the A. O. U. List. —ExLtiotr Covues, Washington, D.C. 
The Scarlet Ibis in Colorado.— On page 60 of my ‘Birds of Colorado’ 
it is stated that but four instances are known of the occurrence in the 
United States of the Scarlet Ibis (Guara rubra). To this short list is 
now to be added a fifth and most remarkable record. A flock of six of 
these magnificent birds was seen April 23, 1897 on the Arkansas River 
near Rocky Ford, Colorado. Three specimens were secured, a male and 
two females and have been mounted by a local taxidermist. 
In this connection it will be well to call attention to a mis-print under 
the notes on this species in ‘Birds of Colorado.’ The specimen noted 
from ‘‘ Texas” should be “‘New Mexico,” the reference being to the 
record of Dr. Coues of a fragment of one seen at Los Pinos. Dr. Coues 
has recently informed the present writer that there can be no question of 
the correctness of this record. —W. W. Cooke, Fort Collins, Colorado. 
Little Blue Heron in New Hampshire.—-I have recently had a Little 
Blue Heron (Ardea cerulea), in perfect plumage, with maroon neck, 
brought in, killed in Amherst, New Hampshire, April 28, (1897). Is it not 
rare to take a bird of this species in New Hampshire?—Jas. P. MELZER, 
Milford, N. 1. 
Bob-white in Northwestern New York. — Several Quail (Colinus virgin- 
zanus) have been reported from different parts of the Counties of Oneida 
and Lewis the past winter. It is very seldom they are seen in this 
locality. The winter has not been so severe as usual.— W.S. JOHNSON, 
Boonville, N. Y. 
Additional Records of the Passenger Pigeon (Zcfopistes migratorius). 
— Most of the notes on the Passenger Pigeon recorded in the past year 
