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376 Auk GENERAL NOTES. Second Ontario Record for Fulmarus glacialis glacialis.--The Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology has recently received a specimen of Fulmar from Mr. Oliver Trafford, taxidermist at St. Eugene• Ontario. Mr. Trafford's remarks concerningthe specimenwere that it was "picked up on the shoreof the Ottawa river above Pointe Fortune, (•uebec,but in Ontario, about one half mile above the Provincial boundary." This was on November 15, 1928. I/e further statesthat the bird was examined while being skinned, that it was very emaciated and there were no bruises or signs of shot. This specimen,R. O. M. Z. No. 29• 2• 27• I t is the secondto be recorded from Ontario. The first, takenat Arnprior•Ontario• also on the Ottawa river, was recordedby Gormley (Auk, XLI, No. now in the collectionof the National Museum of Canada.--L. L. A Second Topetype of Campephilus principalis.--In examining the seriesof Ivory-billed Woodpeckersin the collectionof Dr. L. C. Sanford, which forms part of that of the American Museum of Natural History, I have noted a very handsomeadult male, taken at Cheraw, South Carolina, April 6, 1876. Cheraw is near the Pee Dee River, and is the locality referred to by Wayne (1910, Birds of South Carolina• p. 87) as that in which Ivory-hills were observedduring 1889. In the samepublication, Wayne refersto two specimenspresented to the Charleston M•rseum in 1860. The only Carolina bird hitherto known to be still preserved,however• is a skinpresented to the CharlestonMuseum by Dr. Thomas Barbour, during the A. O. U. meeting of 1928. If this be correct, Dr. Sanford'sspecimen is the secondthat may be called a topotype.--Ros•RT Cvsn•ta• MvRrn¾, Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York. Little Gull (Larus minutus) at Port Newark, N. J.--Messrs. JamesL. Edwards,John Thompson and the writer closedour "big day" in EssexCounty on the Port Newark Meadows,on May 12, with the first New Jerseyrecord of the Little Gull of Europe,an adult in springplumage. Finding the rain of an approachingthunder storm close upon us we hurried to the bulkheadsalong the bay to look over the Gulls congregated on the vast mud fiats which were exposedby the low tide. In a mixed flockof about200 Bonaparte'sGulls, fifty Ring-hi]Isand a dozenHerring Gulls we picked out two birds with black heads. One of theseshowed black underwings, the other wasan adult Bonaparte'sGull. By watching them carefully in fiight• on the water and as they alightedon the fiat• we noted clearlyall the field markingsof this unusualvisitor at a distance of about one hundred yards. Vol.1929 XLVI] .l GesraNot. 377 As the rain hit the birds on the fiat they flew up with loud cries,circled about and alighted on the water before us. As the storm clearedand a rainbow appeared,the wind freshened,the eveningsun came out and the Gulls splashedin the water, flying up a few at a time into the wind and re- turning again to the mud fiat. We had an unparalleled view of all the speciesand saw the European immigrant to our entire satisfaction. It fluttered its wingslike a Tern and was severaltimes an object of attack by the many Bonaparte's Gulls. In size it was about two inches shorter than the latter and markedly smallerwhen they were seenside by side. The colorof the under surface of the wings looked absolutelyblack and the upper side was apparently not marked at all; the body, tail and back were white; head and neck, black. When alighting, the ends of the primaries seemedto be black with white tips, but in talking this featureover with Mr. JohnT. Nichols, he said that someof the dark gray under surfacemust have shownwhen in this position. The bill seemedto be red and the plumage of the under surfacelooked slightly rosy.--W•_uRV•NF. EXTOS,63 Normal Avenue, Upper Montclair, N. J.X Larus minutus soon in Upper New York Bay.•--Towards 7:50 A.M. on May 6, 1929, I stoodnear the bow of a Staten Island ferryboat, passing along the west side of Governor'sIsland. For someminutes I had been watchinga party of about fifteen Bonaparte'sGulls, of which only two appearedto be in adult breedingplumage. Now it becameevident that there were three black-headed birds, and I turned my field-glasson one that happenedto be offeringa splendidbroadside view within about two hundred feet. The morningsun behind me renderedvisible a light pink blush on the bird's breast suchas I had never been able to seein a Bonaparte'sGull' until I actually held the bird in my hands. Next I began to notice that the usual white patch on the upper surfaceof the primarieswas lacking, and instead the whole upper surfaceof the wing was light bluish gray, with only a white border along its whole posterior margin. The black tips of the primaries,conspicuous in Bonaparte'sGull, were lacking, and the whole bird looked a trifle small, ff anything, for a Bonaparte'sGull. At suchclose range no other bird wasvisible in the field of the glass,so I turned it toward one of the adult Bonaparte's Gulls, and verified the familiar markingsof that species. By this time the other bird, which I had decidedmust be the Little Gull of Europe, had passedout of sight. /f I relate the circumstancesof the observationin detail, and seemto be repeatingwhat one may find in publisheddescriptions of the birds, it is simply becauseon this evidencethe identificationmust be judged. I regret that I did not note the relative size or the color of the bill; and I may add that I have never seenthe Little Gull alive in Europe, nor have I had occasionfor some years to study specimensor descriptionsof it. Published by the Dwight Memorial Fund. .
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