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respect to their supposed status in 

 this state will not be amiss. 



Black Tern. — Stone says it is an "ir- 

 regular migrant on the coast during 

 the late summer and autumn, some- 

 times very abundant, occasionally on 

 the large rivers." According to my ex- 

 perience the Black Tern is a common 

 migrant on the Delaware River at 

 Camden, N. J., occurring regularly 

 every year in late August and through- 

 out September; a few linger till late in 

 October as I observed one on October 

 20th, 1906 at Richmond, Philadelphia 

 and near North Camden. 



On July 8th and 9th I saw an adult 

 on the Pensauken Creek and the farm- 

 er on whose grounds we camped in- 

 formed us there had been a pair about 

 for several days. However, we only 

 observed the single bird and that on 

 the last two days of our trip. It was a 

 very tame bird and monotonously 

 hunted about the marshes, flying up 

 and down the creek, often overhead 

 our boat in which we fished and not 

 over twenty feet away at times. When 

 I told the farmer of its rarity here he 

 wanted me to take his gun and shoot 

 it but I told him there was no neces- 

 sity in killing the bird as I had no 

 doubt of its identity. 



The occurrence of the Black Tern 

 in summer in South Jersey is an un- 

 usual thing, as this bird does not nest 

 east of Ohio to my knowledge, and I 

 cannot explain why it was here at this 

 season. It is another puzzling bird 

 mystery. 



Green-winged Teal. On July 8th a 

 bunch of five birds flew in at dusk and 

 probably roosted on the marshes. This 

 species, according to Stone, is a "tran- 

 sient and occasional winter resident 

 in New Jersey. Migrants occur in 

 September and April." Then what 

 were these five birds doing here in 

 July? 



Coot. Stone says it is a "common 



migrant . . . occasionally inland; 

 March 30th to May 3d, September 1st 

 to October 29th." I saw one on July 

 8th and in 1912 one was seen l)y my 

 brother William on July 31st and by 

 my father on August 1st. However, in 

 1914 none were seen during the week 

 I camped here — ^July 27th to August 

 3d. 



Blue-winged Warbler. The Blue- 

 winged Warbler is not supposed to 

 breed in this part of New Jersey and 

 it certainly is a rare nester here. On 

 July 7th I saw an adult; on the 8th 

 inst. a pair and their two fledglings 

 were seen and on the 9th inst. another 

 (one of this pair) was observed. They 

 were all seen in the same woods in 

 which they probably nested as there 

 were many suitable places for them to 

 nest in and the environments were 

 adapted to their needs, according to 

 my experience with them in Pennsyl- 

 vania. However, in 1912 and 1914 I 

 found no Blue-winged Warblers here 

 during my camping trip in the sum- 

 mer. Richard P. Miller. 



Long Tailed Jaeger in Chicago. 



I. A Long tail Jaeger was shot 

 (November, 1915) in the Calumet 

 Marshes near the Southern Limits of 

 Chicago. It seems too bad that the 

 only record for this beautiful fork tail 

 creature should involve the destruc- 

 tion of these long dainty streamers 

 from which the species derives its 

 name. The gunner when shooting the 

 sea wanderer demolished the tail. 



The "remains" were placed with 

 The Field Museum of Natural History. 



II. Mr, Charles K. Knickerbocker 

 while shooting on the Sanganoy Club 

 near Beardstown, Illinois, took a beau- 

 tiful albinistic Mallard. The speculum 

 is a slight shade of tan, and elsewhere 

 the feathers all over the body are 

 nearly immaculate white. 



III. The most curious freak among 



