Vo'g ^V-J General Notes.. 1 83 



ern Georgia, are iiitergrades, but those that I have seen are 

 rather nearer the northern extreme than the Florida extreme, and 

 I have therefore given the new name to the form inhabiting 

 South Florida. Another reason that has induced me to do this 

 is that the northern form never gets so far south as Miami in its 

 winter migration while it is extremely common in winter in South 

 Carolina ; therefore the northern extreme can easily be got at the 

 type locality of the species, while the Florida form stands apart 

 by itself. The Museum of Comparative Zoology is fortunate in 

 possessing a fine series, including both breeding and winter speci- 

 mens of the Florida Bluebird, collected in 187 1 by Messrs. May- 

 nard and Henshaw, mostly at Miami — a point so far south that 

 it represents the form in its extreme. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Briinnich's Murre ( f/r/rt lomvia) at Ottawa, Canada- — On the 12th 

 December, 1897, large numbers of this bird passed the city on the way 

 South. The flight continued nearly the whole day . Quite a number of 

 the birds were shot. — G. R. White, Oiiazva, Ontario, Canada. 



Ross's Gull {^RJiodostethia rosea) on Bering Island. — In my ' Ornith. 

 Expl. Comm. Isls. and Kamtsch.' (1885), p. 315, I enumerated Ross's Gull 

 among the birds of Kamchatka with some hesitation and without giving 

 it a number since Saunders had queried the statement of Verreaux that 

 the two specimens in the museum at Mayence actually came from tliat 

 country. At the same time I pointed out that there was no improbability 

 ^er se in the alleged locality' being correct. I am now in position to 

 affirm that this species occasionally straggles as far south on the Asiatic 

 coast as Bering Island off the coast of Kamchatka. Last summer Mr. N. 

 Grebnitski kindly presented me Avith a fully adult female of Ross's Gull 

 obtained on Bering Island December 10, 1S95. It is now in the U. S. 

 National Museum, No. 162785. This is a very interesting addition to 

 the avifauna of the Commander Islands. — Leonhard Stejxeger, U. S. 

 National Museum, Washington, D. C. 



The Scarlet Ibis — A Correction. — In 'The Auk,' XIV, 1897, p. 316, is 

 a record by the present writer of the Scarlet Ibis taken in 1S97 in the 

 Arkansas Valley in Colorado. This was given on the authority of the 



