190 General Notes. 



The Eggs of the Curlew Sandpiper (Tringa subarquata). — The 

 efgs of this species have hitherto escaped the researches of European 

 ornithologists, and up to the present moment have continued to he an 

 especial object of search, and an occasion of renewed disappointment. In 

 a recent visit to Washington, I saw, among tin- interesting things brought 

 hack by Mr. Ludovic Rumlien from the Howgate Arctic expedition, two 

 e <r " , s of this very rare species, which lie was enabled to procure, through the 

 attentions of Governor Fencker, in the neighborhood of Chri-tianshaab in 

 North Greenland. One egg measures 1.52 inches in length by 1.05 

 in breadth. Its ground color is drab, with a distinct shade of olive, 

 and it is thickly marked with blotches of two shades of umber-brown, one 

 quite light, the other much darker. These are most numerous on and 

 around the larger end, and are in a somewhat longitudinal direction, with 

 a tendency also to a spiral course. There are also a few >\»>\<. of a very 

 dark color, almost a black, on the larger end. The other egg measures 

 1.47 X 1.04 inches, and is much more pyrifbrm in shape. Its ground color 

 is a very light greenish drab, with rather sparse markings of a deep umber. 

 These are larger and more confluent about the greater end of the egg, 

 where they are chiefly disposed in a circular ring. The rest of the egg is 

 Bparsely marked with the same. About the larger end are also a few very 

 dark markings. — T. M. Bkewer, Boston, Mass. 



Capture ok the European Widgeon in North Carolina. — On 

 the 17th of last December, a gentleman called my attention to a European 

 Widgeon hanging up with a bunch of Ducks, in an express office in New 

 York. The expressman, of course, had no right to part with the bird, 

 and as the address was wrong, I was unable to follow up the Ducks. The 

 man promised my companion to scud him the true address as soon as he 

 received it, but nothing further was heard from him. The bird was a 

 malt- in full plumage, and, as I have since learned, came from Currituck. 

 Another of these Widgeons was killed at Currituck, on January 17, 1879, 

 by William Baylis, Esq., of Brooklyn, in whose possession it now i-. 

 Through the courtesy of Mr. Baylis I was permitted to examine this bird, 

 which is a fine adult male. 



The first occurrence of Mareca pt /" !<>/>< in this country was in 1842, 

 when Mr. (r. N. Lawrence obtained one in Fulton Market, said to have 

 come from Long Island. In this Bulletin, Vol. III. p. 98, two specimens 

 are recorded ; one from Virginia, taken in 1855, the other from Long 

 Island, in 1873, 



In all, five authenticated individuals <>f M. penelope have now been re- 

 corded from the Atlantic coast. Mr. Charles W. Moxon. of Point PleaB- 

 ant, N. J., informs me that during the past Beason Beveral red-headed 

 Widgeons have been shoi on Barnegat Bay. — Dk L. Bkrij r, Fort Hamil- 

 ton, L. I. 



Bonapaktk's Gull in Kansas. — I have in my collection of birds 



