GENERAL NOTES. 
Northern Phalaropes off the New Hampshire Coast. — While taking my 
new boat the ‘Phalarope’ from Rockaway, Long Island, N. Y., to Casco 
Bay, Maine, I met with numerous flocks of Northern Phalaropes, twenty 
miles off the New Hampshire Coast, August 9, 1S93. I was running my 
course for Cape Elizabeth and found on coming within sight of land 
that they disappeared— Reginald I. Brasher letter to William 
Dutcher >' Auk XI. July. 1804 p. 260 
The Northern Phalarope (Phalarofius lobatus) in the Franconia Moun- 
tains, New Hampshire. — About five years ago, in September, while fishing 
on Profile Lake, Franconia, N. H.,I observed a bird sitting on the water, 
feeding on winged ants, of which thousands lay on the surface. The 
bird was fearless, allowed me to approach it in my canoe so closely that 
I could easily reach it with my landing net (handle not three feet long), 
and was not alarmed at several attempts I made to put the net gently over 
him. I observed him for nearly half an hour, constantly within a few 
feet of him, and then left him. I did not know the bird, and several 
friends, ornithologists, afterward expressed a wish that I had captured or 
killed him for examination. 
On September 22, 1888, while fishing on Lonesome Lake (about two 
miles from Profile Lake, on Mt. Cannon, nearly 3000 feet above sea- 
level), I saw another specimen of the same bird swimming duck-like 
among the sedges on the edge of the lake. He was equally fearless, 
allowing me to approach within hand reach, without alarm and without 
ceasing his employment, which was feeding on the seeds of the sedges. 
There was no mistake, in either case, as to what the bird was eating — in 
one case ants, in the other seed. In the latter case I greatly enjoyed 
watching the rapid and graceful action of the bird as he picked off the 
seeds, frequently stretching up, almost standing on the water, and reach- 
ing to seeds on high sedges. After ten minutes I concluded with great 
reluctance to kill him, which I did by striking him gently on the head 
with a short stick. Ornithologists who examined him pronounced him 
the Northern Phalarope. At their request I make this note of the facts. 
— W. C. Prime, New York City. 
A.uk, VI. Jam., 1®89» 9 . 
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