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General Notes. 
Addenda to the Preliminary List of Birds ascertained to 
OCCUR IN THE ADIRONDACK REGION, NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK.* — 
178. Dendrceca striata ( Forst .) Baird. Black-poll Warbler. — 
In the collection of the late A. Jenings Dayan (of Lyons Falls, N. Y.) is 
a female of this species that he killed in the town of Lyonsdale in Lewis 
Co., May 23, 1877. 
179. Dendrceca pinus ( Wilson ) Baird. Pine-creeping. Warbler. 
— Mr. Dayan took a full-plumaged male D. pinus at Lyonsdale, Lewis Co., 
May 8, 1877. I have never observed the species within the limits of the 
Adirondack Region, and it must be regarded as a rare bird here. 
180. Asio accipitrinus ( Pallas ) Newton. Short-eared Owl. — I 
have seen two specimens of the Short-eared Owl that were taken within 
the limits of the Adirondack Region, in Lewis County. They were both 
killed east of the Black River Valley — one in the town of Greig, and the 
other in Lyonsdale. 
181. Nyctiardea* grisea nasvia ( Bodd .) Allen. Night Heron. — I 
have seen a Night Heron that was shot at Crown Point (in Essex Co.) on 
Lake Champlain. There were two of them together, and both were killed. 
182. Calidris arenaria (Linn.) Illig. Sanderling. — On the 5th of 
October, 1881 Mr. O. B. Lockhart killed, from a flock, four Sanderlings at 
Lake George, in Warren Co. (Dr. A. K. Fisher.) 
183. Chen hyperboreus ( Pallas ) Boie. Snow Goose. — Dr. A. K. 
Fisher writes me that he saw a flock of one hundred and fifty or two hun- 
dred Snow Geese on Lake George (in Warren County) Nov. 19, 1881. 
In company with Mr. O. B. Lockhart he rowed out to within a hundred 
yards of them, when they were frightened by another boat and took 
flight, showing plainly the black tips of their primaries as they left. 
184. Phalacrocorax dilophus ( Sw . and Rich.) Nuttall. Double, 
crested Cormorant. — Mr. F. H. Knowlton, from Brandon, Vermont, 
writes me: “I shot, on September 24, 1879, at St. Regis’ Lake [Frank- 
lin County], two miles from Paul Smith’s, a young female example of 
Graculus dilophus. The bird was not wild and was easily shot from 
the shore.” 
185. Dytes auritus (Linn.) Ridgway. Horned Grebe. — On Little 
Tuppers Lake (Hamilton Co.), Oct. 22, 1881, Dr. A. K. Fisher and I saw 
about eight Horned Grebes and I killed one of them. While crossing 
Raquette Lake, the same day, Dr. Fisher shot another. At Big Moose 
Lake (in Hamilton and Herkimer Counties) we saw this species every 
day from Oct. 26 to Nov. 8, 1881. Nov. 5 I shot one out of a flock of 
nine. They were all in the plain fall dress, so that the size alone 
enabled us to distinguish young from old. In all the iris was of a bright 
orange red. They are excellent divers and can remain under water an 
astonishingly long period. — C. Hart Merriam.M.D., Locust Grove , N. T 
Errata. 
In Vol. VII, page 26, line 6, for “An indistinct, dusky” read “A black.” 
Same page, foot note, for “ovkcw” read “oi’kcw.” 
* Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, Vol. VI, pp. 225-235. 
