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General Notes. 
the beach at the south of the hotel. It was alone, though there were 
several flocks of other Plovers near at hand. In note and actions it 
closely resembled the Piping Plover, but was larger and lighter colored. 
Capt. Hall called it the ‘ Pale Ring-neck,’ and said he had seen it at the 
Gurnet before.” The description given by Mr. Fiske (length 7.75 inches; 
bill fully 1 inch, black,” etc.) leaves no doubt that the bird was Wilson’s 
Plover. — Elliott Coues, Washington , D. C. 
Capture of Baird’s Sandpiper on Long Island. — On September 
22, 1880, I shot a specimen of Trijiga bairdi on Montauk, Long Island. 
The bird was in a flock of “ Peeps” (^Eretmetes pusillus), feeding on the 
beach of Great Pond, a brackish lake often in communication with the 
Sound. It so closely resembled the “ Peeps ” that I only noticed it on 
account of its larger size. The skin I preserved, though badly cut by the 
shot. — Daniel E. Moran, Brooklyn, JV. T. 
[This is apparently the first known occurrence of this species on the 
Atlantic Coast south of New England. — Edd.] 
An Addition to the Maine Fauna. — On October 8, 1881, I received 
from Mr. Alpheus G. Rogers, of Portland, an immature specimen of 
Rallus elegans , the King Rail, which he shot on Scarborough Marsh, on 
the morning of that day. This species is new to the State of Maine, and 
has occurred in New England only about half a dozen times. 
Its previous New England record is as follows: (1) Stratford, Conn., 
breeding, Linsley, Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, Vol. XLIV, No. 2, p. 267. 
(2) Portland, Conn., one specimen; (3) Saybrook, Conn., one spec- 
imen, Merriam, Rev. Birds Conn., p. 115. (4) Nahant, Mass., one spec- 
imen, Purdie, this Bulletin, Vol. II, p. 22. (5) Sudbury Meadows, Mass., 
one specimen, Purdie, this Bulletin, Vol. Ill, p. 146. — Nathan Clif- 
ford Brown, Portland , Maine. 
Capture of Larus leucopterus near Boston. — In November last 
Mr. Charles I. Goodale showed me an immature specimen of Larus 
leucopterus in the flesh, which he stated was shot near Boston. The bird 
is now in my collection. — Charles B. Cory, Boston , Mass. 
The Great Black-backed Gull ( Larus marinus ) from a new 
Locality. — Mr. Howard Saunders, in his excellent synopsis of the 
Larince (P. Z. S., 1878, pp. 155-212), p. 180, in defining the known range 
of this species, says that there is “no record from the American side of 
the Pacific,” but that he had “ examined undoubted specimens from Japan,” 
this being considered “ a very great extension of its previously known 
range.” During the present year the National Museum has received 
specimens of this species, in alcohol, from Herald Island, in the Arctic 
Ocean, northwest of Behring’s Straits, and from Port Clarence on the 
American side of the Straits*, the former collected by Captain C. M. 
Hooper, of the U. S. Revenue Cutter “ Corwin,” the latter by Dr. T. H. 
Bean, of the National Museum. — Robert Ridgway, Washington, D. C. 
