Auk, XII, July, 1395, p p.^o-xy. 
Gavia alba on Long Island, N. Y. — In the summer of 1893 , Mr. John 
C. Knoess, taxidermist, of Riverhead, Long Island, called my attention 
to a “ rare gull ” which he had received and mounted January 5 , 1893 , for 
John Goldswerth of Sayville, Suffolk County, Long Island. From the 
description furnished I concluded it must be an adult Ivory Gull. To 
satisfy myself as to the identity of the bird I visited Mr. Goldswerth and 
saw the specimen, which proved to be an adult Gavia alba. Mr. Gold- 
sweith informed me that he shot the bird while he was rigged out for 
ducks in an ice hole on Great South Bay, near Sayville. — William 
Ddtcher, New York City. <5>*L ... 
