NOTES CONCERNING CERTAIN BIRDS OF 
LONG ISLAND. 
BY WILLIAM C. BRAISLIN, M. D. 
Nettion crecca. A number of jears has passed since the publication of 
any lecord of the European Teal on Long Island. This species is in¬ 
cluded in Lawrence’s ‘ List ’ (1866), but is not mentioned by Giraud in his 
‘Birds of Long Island’ (1844). I am able to record two additional speci¬ 
mens for Long Island. These, together with one American Green¬ 
winged Teal, were shot by Mr. Sherman Smith of Merrick, on a small 
fresh-water pond at that place, about a week before Christmas, 1900. 
These birds were mounted by Mr. Albert Lott, a taxidermist of Freeport; 
one of them I found recently in Mr. Willis’s shop at the latter place and 
traced the history of the specimens as related, finding the second specimen 
at Mr. Lott’s house. Both are males in fine plumage. They are now in 
my collection of Long Island birds. 
Auk, XIX, April., 1002, p . iV5" 
