Vol. XXI J General Notes. 383 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Black-capped Petrel in New Hampshire. — Recently Mr. Henry W. 

 Osgood sent me a photograph (see Plate XXII) of a Black-capped Petrel 

 {x-Estreluta hasitata) taken at Pittsfield, N. H., August 30, 1893, but not 

 hitherto recorded.^ The locality of capture is forty miles from the sea. 

 The specimen was a male, and fell, in an exhausted condition, near Mr. 

 Osgood's home. Its stomach was empty. This is the first record of the 

 species for New Hampshire, though previously reported from Vermont. 



This straggler from tropical seas has the following North American 

 records : (i) Near Indian River, Florida, winter of 1846 (Lawrence, Ann. 

 Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, IV, p. 475). (2) Quoque, Long Island, N. Y., 

 July, 1850 (Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, V, 1852, p. 220). 

 (3) Blacksburg, Va., Aug. 30, 1893 (Smyth, Auk, X, 1893, p. '361). (4) 

 Oneida Lake, N. Y., Aug. 28, 1893 (Bagg, Auk, XI, 1894, 162). (5) 

 Toronto, Canada, Oct. 30, 1893 (Mcllwraith, Birds of Ontario, 1894, p. 

 414). (6) Vermont, place and date not recorded (Allen, Auk, XI, 1894, p. 

 241). (7) New Paltz, Ulster Co., N. Y., Jan. 26, 1895 (Foster, Auk, XII, 

 1895, p. 179). (8) Cincinnati, Ohio (two specimens), Oct. 5, 189S (Lin- 

 dahl. Auk, XVI, 1899, p. 75). (9) Augusta, Ky., Oct. 4, 1898 (Lindahl, 

 Auk, XVI, 1899, p. 75). (10) The New Hampshire specimen recorded 

 above — ten records, eleven specimens. — J. A. Allen, Am. Mtis. Nat. 

 Hist., Netv York City. 



Holbcell's Grebe in Lancaster, Mass. — A live HolboelFs Grebe (Colym- 

 btts kolbcellii), a young male, was found in Lancaster, Mass., February 15, 

 1904, by one of the local sportsmen and given to me. It did not seem 

 injured in the least, and lived in confinement for nine days. It was found 

 in a marshy meadow near the main street, near several houses. — John E. 

 Thayer, Laticaster, Mass. 



European Widgeon in Southern California. — A male European Wid- 



1 Since this note was sent to the printer I have received a copy of Mr. 

 Glover M. Allen's ' A list of the Birds of New Hampshire' (Proc. Manchester 

 Institute of Arts and Sciences, IV, Pt. i, pp. 23-222), in which (p. 69) occurs 

 the following: "A single specimen was captured at Pittsfield, in Merrimack 

 County, in August, 1893, and beyond an anonymous paragraph in the Boston 

 Sunday Herald ('93), appears not to have been recorded. The bird is now in 

 the movmted collection of Mr. William Brewster, No. 46,076, catalogued 

 under date of August 30, 1893. Doubtless the bird was blown up the coast 

 by the tropical hurricane of the last week of August in that year," with also 

 Nos. 3, 4, and 6 of the above list. 



In a letter just received Mr. Osgood confirms Mr. Allen's statement that the 

 New Hampshire specimen, recorded above, is now in Mr. Brewster's collection. 



