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General Notes. 
by two men from Westchester County, told Mr. Boardman it had prob- 
ably been killed in that locality. Mr. Boardman published a note to 
that effect in the “Rod and Gun ” (Vol. VII, Dec. 4, 1875, p. 153). 
When Mr. Wallace again met one of the men who had brought him the 
bird, he learned that the man and his companion were fishing in a boat 
not far from Flushing when they saw the Hawk perched upon a tree on 
the shore, and having a gun with them they easily secured it. — De L. 
Berier, Fort Hamilton , Loiig Island. N. T. 
Probable Occurrence of Sarcorhamphus papa in Arizona. — There 
has long been recorded (Pr. Phila. Acad., 1866, p — ) a note of mine to the 
effect that I saw on the Rio Verde, in Arizona, a pair of birds that I sup- 
posed to be King Vultures. Mr. Willard Rice, an amateur naturalist of 
excellent powers of observation and long experience, who was with me on 
the occasion to which I refer, and to whom I pointed out the birds, told 
me the other day that he remembered the circumstances perfectly well, 
and that some years afterward, on the Verde again, he shot and killed a 
pair of birds which he has no doubt were of the same kind. They had a 
nest in a large cotton-w r ood tree. From his description of the specimens, 
which unfortunately were not preserved, I suppose them to be the Vulture 
in mention. But is not the fact of tree-nesting entirely against such sup- 
position? I consider it established, however, that there occurs in Arizona 
a large rapacious bird, brownish or tawny above, white below, and naked 
headed, of some species as yet undetermined. — Elliot Coues, Washing- 
ton , D. C. 
Nyctherodius violaceus in Kansas. — April 17, 1878, Samuel W. 
Reed shot, on Crooked Creek, in Coffee County, a female Yellow-crowned 
Night Heron, and sent me the skin for identification. The bird was in full 
breeding plumage, and Mr. Reed stated in a note accompanying the bird 
that he found on dissection six or seven of the eggs enlarged to from one- 
eighth to three-fourths of an inch in diameter — also that another bird, 
probably her mate, was with her. 
From this and the further fact that I have shot at this place in the 
months of July and August young birds (a pair of which I have in my 
collection), I think it safe to say they occasionally nest in the State. The 
young, as happens with the White, Snowy, and Little Blue Herons, may 
have wandered north from their breeding grounds, but there can be no 
question that the adult birds would have nested in the vicinity. — N. S. 
Goss, Neosho Falls , Kansas. 
Capture of the Snowy Heron ( Garzetta candidissima ) on Long 
Island. — Although the habitat of this species includes this region as well 
as the greater part of New England, I consider it worth the while to record 
its capture here, as it is now rare so far to the North. Mr. John M. Rod- 
ocanachi shot a fine specimen on Cedar Island, Great South Bay. Long 
Island, on August 4, 1881, which he kindly sent to me. ■ — Louis A. Zer- 
ega, hi East 72 nd St.. New Fork City. 
