[Auk 

 Jan. 



Wm. L. Baily, 423 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



O. WiDMANN, Old Orchard, Mo. 



W. Otto Emerson, Haywards, Cal. 



Mrs. Florence Merriam Bailey, Washington, D. C. 



Mrs. Edw. Robins, 114 So. 21st St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller, 628 Hancock St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Leverett M. Loomis, Acad, of Sci., San Francisco, Cal. 



A. W. Anthony, Taylorsville, Cal. 



William Palmer, U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 



Sub-comtnittee on Laws. 

 William Dutcher and Dr. T. S. Palmer. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The Paroquet Auklet in California. — In the collection of the California 

 Academy of Sciences there are five specimens of Cyclorrkynchus fsittac- 

 ulus from the bay and ocean at San Francisco. Three of these were cap- 

 tured by Dr. John Hornung — a male, Jan. 10,1895, and a male and female, 

 Jan. 8, 1899. The remaining two specimens (a male and female) were 

 secured by Mr. William J. Hackmeier, Dec. 17, 1899. The white feathers 

 behind the eyes are well developed in the three January specimens. So 

 far as I am aware this species has not been recorded from California 

 waters. — Leverett M. Loomis, California Academy of Sciences, San 

 Francisco. 



On the Southern Limit of the Winter Range of Bonaparte's Gull 

 {Lams Philadelphia). — In the firisi edition of the A. O. U. Check-List 

 the habitat of Larus Philadelphia is given as follows : "Whole of North 

 America, breeding mostly north of the United States ; south in winter to 

 Mexico and Central America." In the second edition the closing clause 

 is omitted and the following substituted : " Not yet recorded from south 

 of the United States, though reported from the Bermudas." 



Nevertheless, it has long been a matter of record ( Lawrence, y?^e Gray- 

 son, Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. II, 1874, p. 317) that this species 

 occurs at least as far south as Mazatlan, Sinaloa. A recent instance of 

 occurrence is not lacking to confirm this record, there being in the col- 

 lection of the California Academy of Sciences three specimens from 



