V0 !s5 !I1 ] General Notes. I7I 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Brunnich's Murre at Cape Charles, Virginia. — Mr. Geo. S. Morris has 

 in his collection a male Brunnich's Murre (Uria lomvia) taken Dec. 31, 

 1890, at Cape Charles, Va., and I have a female taken by myself at the 

 same place on Dec. 14, 1895. As I do not find this bird in the Virginia 

 list, these captures may be of interest, as it extends the range of this 

 winter visitor. There had been a northeast storm for five days, and 

 the specimen I took was either very tame or else exhausted, as it was 

 shot without any trouble. The stomach was entirely empty and there 

 was no fat on the body. Both of these specimens were fully identified by 

 Mr. Witmer Stone of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. — 

 I. N. DeHaven, Ardmore, Montgomery Co., Pa. 



The Parasitic Jaeger near Cleveland, Ohio. — Last November, while on 

 a shooting trip to Sandusky Bay, I was told by a friend, Mr. A. E. Kelly, 

 a local shooter, of two birds which he described as " web-footed hawks " 

 that he had seen pursuing the Gulls and Terns. One of the pair he had 

 already shot and sent to the Smithsonian Institution ; the other he shot 

 and sent to me a few days later, when I found it to be a female Parasitic 

 Jaeger {Stercorarius parasiticus). Mr. Ridgway also found the specimen 

 sent him to be of the same species. 



This species is not included in Dr. Wheaton's list of Ohio birds in the 

 report of the Geological Survey, but I find in the Proceedings of the 

 Cleveland Academy of Science, in a paper read by Dr. Kirtland in 

 November, 1857, an account of a bird taken near the mouth of Rocky 

 River, Lake Erie, which he considers as probably of this species. 



The specimen sent me had a minnow and a quantity of dark feathers in 

 its stomach. Its skin is now in the collection of Case School of Applied 

 Science. — F. M. Comstock, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Puffinus tenuirostris, off San Diego, California. — On Jan. 9, 1896, 

 while collecting sea birds about three miles west of Point Laura Light- 

 house, a number of dark Shearwaters were seen, that seemed to me to be 

 much too small for P. griseus. They were usually single birds, though 

 several times loose companies of from three or four to a half a dozen 

 sailed by. They were very shy and after several ineffectual attempts to 

 get a shot I gave them up. Just as I was starting for home, however, two 

 birds appeared from opposite directions and lit near my boat, one on 

 either side ; both were secured and one proved to be an undoubted P. 

 tejiuirostris. 



This species has not before been recorded on the Eastern Pacific south 

 of British Columbia, although it extends along the coast of China to 

 Australia on the Western Pacific. Several years ago I felt reasonably 

 sure that I had seen P. tenuirostris along the coast of Southern California, 



