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ORNITHOLOGIST 
[Vol. 6-No. 12. 
ity during the season of iS-jz—S/rix oc- 
ctdcntalis {Xanius) and Glaucidium phalce- 
tioides {Baud) —about which I may have 
something to say hereafter. 
Another Gannet (^Sula bassa?ia) from 
the interior of New York State. 
In the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornitholog¬ 
ical Club for July, 1880, (Vol. V., No. 3, 
page 190) Leslie A. Lee records the c.ip- 
tureofaGannet, or “ Solan Goose,” {Sula 
bassana) on Grasse River, in the Town of 
Canton, in St. Lawrence County, New York 
December loth, 1879. 
Mr. W. L. Rich, of Saratoga Springs, has 
recently sent me an excellent description, 
accompanied by a life-size sketch of the 
head, of another of these curious birds that 
were shot “on the wing” at Saratoga Lake, 
Saratoga County, New York, on November ! 
nth, 1880, by a Mr. Schuyler. It is a' 
young male m the immature speckled plu 
mage, and weighed, when shot, five pounds. ( 
It measured 38^ inches in length with a ^ 
spread of 70 inches. This is the identical 
specimen recorded as a Cormorant (Gm- 
culus carbo)" in a note in your journal for 
July, .88,, (Vol. VI, No j, page 39 )-C. 
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