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General Notes. 
bird, which was in immature plumage, was shot in the harbor near the 
city in November, 1880. The skin was afterwards forwarded to the Smith- 
sonian Institution where it was identified. 
In a hurried glance through the various New England lists I do not find 
the species anywhere mentioned, excepting by Herrick, who gives it (Bull. 
Essex Inst., Vol. V, 1873) as a “ winter visitant” at Grand Menan. The 
occurrence of the present specimen so near our eastern border is therefore 
of no little interest.— William Brewster, Cambridge , Mass. 
A Correction. — In this Bulletin, this Vol., p, 75, has not Dr. Sclater 
left a singular slip of the pen, in saying that th zTrogonidce are “ the only 
form of the whole class of birds in which the fourth or outer digit is re- 
versed instead of the second.” For “fourth or outer ” read “ second or 
inner”; and for “second” read “fourth.” — Elliott Coues, Ft. Whipple, 
Arizona. 
Migration of Birds at Night. — On the r6th of April last, at Prince- 
ton, Mr. J. A. Allen and myself made the following observations with the 
aid of the telescope. We noted in about three-quarters of an hour thirteen 
birds passing the field of the instrument. Nine were going from the 
south to the north, three in the opposite direction, i. e. from the north to 
the south, and a single bird was flying from the east to the west. Four of 
these birds we determined from their shape and flight to be Swallows, the 
others being small land birds which we could not decide on save in one 
case, where the bird was unquestionably some species of the genus Turdns. 
The moon was 2^° to io° in altitude during these observations and 
consequently the birds were flying comparatively low. — W. E. D. Scott, 
Princeton , N. J. 
[I take this opportunity to correct a mistake inadvertently made in my 
note to Mr. Scott’s paper on the “Migration of Birds” published in the last 
number of the Bulletin (Vol. VI, p., 100), where in line three of the second 
paragraph “four” should read two ; i. 0., the birds seen may have ranged 
in elevation from one to two mil£s, instead of “ one to four miles,” as there 
stated. — J. A. Allen.] 
Birds and Windows. — Reading in the April Bulletin the note by 
Mr. Lucas on “Birds and Windows” brings to mind that when in business 
in Hartford, Conn., in 1871 and 1872, I found in the spring the following 
birds that had been killed by flying against the Charter Oak Life Ins. Co.’s 
building — a very high building with “the windows opposite one another.” 
Myiodioctes canadensis , Geotklypis trichas , Icterus Baltimore. Ckcetura 
pelasgia , Trochilus colubris (6 specimens). — John H. Sage, Portland , 
Conn. 
