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The Louisiana Heron in Indiana. — My friend Mr. F. T. Jencks, 
of Providence, E. I., writes me that on the 26th of June, 1876, while pass- 
ing through a large marsh between Plymouth and Hanna, on the line of 
the Pittsburg and Fort Wayne Railroad, in Northern Indiana, he saw a 
fine adult specimen of Demiegretta ludoviciana spring up close beside the 
railroad-track and fly off in full view. As Mr. Jencks is well acquainted 
with the species in question, I have no doubt of the correctness of his 
identification. — E. W. Nelson, Chicago, III. 
Note on the Cinnamon Teal {Querguedula cyanoptera). — A small 
lake, which feeds one of the headwaters of the North Platte, in North 
Park, Colorado, was found to be a breeding-place of large numbers of wild 
Geese {Branta canadensis) and other water-fowl, among which Wigeons 
(Mareca americana), Shovellers (Spatula clypeata), and the species the 
name of which heads this paragraph, were the most numerous. I was 
on the spot too late in the season to take eggs, but newly-fledged birds 
of each of the three species of Ducks mentioned, as well as old birds in 
moult, were secured or observed. The Cinnamon Teal here seemed to 
replace the common Blue-winged, none of which were ascertained to 
occur. The spot was on the Atlantic side of the main water-shed, though 
practically on the divide, as it was only a day’s march from the edge of 
Middle Park, the waters of which area flow into the Colorado of the West 
and so into the Gulf of California. The Teal associated as usual with 
various other kinds of Ducks, and no peculiarity of habits was noted. 
Two young birds were captured alive, in a natural excavation of an em- 
bankment, in which they had apparently crawled to hide, as the hole 
showed no traces of a nest. — Elliott Codes, JVashington, D. G. 
jEgiothus exilipes in Europe. — It may be interesting to the read- 
ers of the Bulletin to learn that one of the two Redpoles procured upon 
the Petchora River in Northeastern Russia, in 1875, by Mr. Henry See- 
bohm and myself, and on a former occasion, at Archangel, by Mr. E. R. 
Alston and myself, has turned out to be identical with jBgiothus exilipes, 
Cones. We are thus able to extend the distribution of that species in' o 
European Russia as far as Archangel (40° E. longitude from Greenwich). 
This species was also procured by M. Severtzoff, in Turkestan. In our 
papers in the ‘^Ibis,” January, 1873, p. 64, and “Ibis,” January, 1876, we 
have erroneously named this bird rufescens, which name is only appli- 
cable to the form found in Great Britain, and migrating southward in 
winter. The other species found in North Russia is true Linota linaria, 
Linn. JEgiotlius exilipes, Coues, will thus probably be found to be almost 
circumpolar in its distribution, as it is reasonable to suppose that it is the 
common species occurring throughout Northern Siberia in summer. Ref- 
erences to notices of this species in Europe will be found in the “ Ibis ” as 
above quoted, in the “Zoologist” for January, 1877, and in an Appendix 
Mr. Seebohm and myself are preparing to our “ Notes of the Birds of the 
