From the above you may see that four sets — in all eleven eggs — were 

 taken from nest A in seventy-seven days, and three sets — in all six eggs — 

 were taken from nest B in forty-four days. The intervals between sets 

 were very regular, being twenty-three, twenty-three, and thirty-one days 

 for the one, and twenty-three and twenty-one days for the other. 



I have taken incubated eggs as late as June lo, and have seen birds 

 still in the nest in September ; but these are extreme instances. The 

 best time for collecting their eggs is during March and early April. 



I find two eggs to a set more often than three, and have not yet taken a 

 set of four. 



The ground color is some shade of red or brown, sometimes pure white, 

 but so obscured by markings as to be very indefinite. The eggs present 

 every possible shade of red, brown, and black. Usually, the black is in 

 the shape of small round dots, and sometimes in streaks. The pigment 

 ma}^ be washed away from freshly laid eggs. 



The average size of all the eggs of this species in my collection is 

 2.29 X 1. 79 inches ; the smallest, 2.09x1.79, 2.19x1.67; and the largest, 

 2.45 X 1.76, 2.25 X 1.87. 



Beside the name of Mexican Eagle, I have heard the Caracara called 

 Black-Capped Eagle. I must say that the latter name is quite appropriate. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



C.\N.A.D.A. Goose IN Chester Co., Va. — Throughout the foggy day of 

 November 25, 1895, an unvisual number of migrating Canada Geese 

 [Branta canadensis) passed over this section of the country. One large 

 flock numxbering one hundred or more individuals became confused and 

 bewildered in the fog, and alighting in the midst of a corn-field on an 

 eminence in the Chester Valley, proceeded with much clamor to feed 

 upon the scattered piles of husked grain. In a few minutes the field 

 appeared as if a drove of hogs had run riot through it for hours. A 

 shriek of the whistle of a passing locomotive startled the feasting birds, 

 and a double discharge of a gun, in the hands of a farmer's boy, had no 

 other appreciable effect than to send them over the North Valley Hills 

 in much disorder, where they again essayed to alight in a field near 

 Berwyn, but were frightened before all had settled. For some minutes 

 they flew around in utter confusion, dividing into three irregular flocks, 

 the largest of which contained sixty birds. Later in the day, presumably 



