General Notes. 
Rare Visitants to the Connecticut River Valley in iSg 3 .—Rynchops 
nigra. During the prevalence of an unusually severe gale the latter part 
of August, a Black Skimmer was found invest Springfield, Mass., in an j ^ ■ 
exhausted condition, and taken by 
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