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also present. About thirty herons were seen, — six Greens 

 (Butorides v. virescens), a Great Blue (Ardea h. herodias), a 

 flock of eleven Little Blues (Florida ccerulea, five adult, six 

 immature), the rest Nights (Nydicorax nydicorax ncevius). 

 A Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax a. auritus) was 

 observed flying northward off the beach. 



Mr. Rogers reported that on a New Jersey canoe trip June 

 13 and 14 from New Brunswick via Bound Brook, Trenton and 

 Bordentown to Crosswicks, Mr. Miller and he had found the 

 country swarming with bird life. They noted 71 breeding 

 species (besides two crippled ducks). The most noteworthy 

 find was an Alder Flycatcher (Empidonax trailli alnorum) 

 singing in a typical breeding place below Blackwell's Mills, 

 further south than any previously known breeding station in 

 New Jersey. They met with a flock of fully sixty Turkey 

 Vultures (Cathartes aura septentrionalis) on the Delaware above 

 Bordentown. 



Mr. Hix and Mr. Rogers reported the apparent entire absence 

 of rails from the Newton, N. J., marsh in July, where several 

 years ago both Soras (Porzana Carolina) and Virginias (Rallus 

 virginianus) were common, and conditions appear not to have 

 changed. Mr. Weber said there had been few rails in the 

 Overpeck meadows during this autumn's migration. 



Mr, Weber recorded the mating of Mallards (Anas platy- 

 rhynchos) and Black Ducks (A. ruhripes) and of Canada and 

 domestic Gray Lag Geese (Branta c. canadensis and Anser 

 anser) and the successful rearing of hybrids by a breeder at 

 Montauk, L. I., this summer. 



Cape May Warblers (Dendroica tigrina) were reported com- 

 mon or in unusual numbers this autumn in the Connecticut 

 Lake and White Mountain regions of New Hampshire (Rogers) ^ 

 at Watch Hill, R. I., and Ithaca, N. Y. (Griscom in litt.), about 

 Plainfield, N. J. (W. DeW. Miller), and WytheviUe, W. Va. 

 (L. L. Jewel in litt.); also Tennessee Warblers (Vermivora 

 peregrina) about New York City (Rogers) and Plainfield (Miller) . 



Other interesting autumn records follow: Hudsonian Curlew 

 {Numenius hudsonicus), 7, at Long Beach July 25 (Weber); 

 Knots (Tringa canutus), East Hampton, L. L, around Labor 



