1 82 General Notes. [A^"^, 



County, which is located in the northern part of Kansas, about one 

 hundred miles west, and thirty miles north of this city; while the speci- 

 men mentioned bv Mr. Mitchell in the October Auk, 1894 (XI, p. 327), 

 killed at Earl, Crittenden County, Arkansas, April i, 1891, and sent to 

 Memphis, Tenn., for identification, was taken about two hundred and 

 fifty miles east, and three hundred miles south of this point. The one 

 noticeable fact in regard to the capture of these three specimens is the 

 different seasons in which the birds were taken, the Crittenden County. 

 Arkansas, bird haying been captured in spring (April i, 1S91), the 

 Marshall County, Kansas, bird in summer (Aug. 13, 18SS), and the 

 Jackson County, Missouri, bird in autumn (Oct. 28, 1894). Mr. Kellogg 

 notes in ' The Auk ' for July, 1894 (XI, p. 260), that Mr. Menke of 

 Finne^■ Count\-, Kansas, records, "Three birds were seen Oct. 10, 1891." 

 in the far southwestern portion of that State, but no specimens were 

 .secured. — John A. Bryant, Ka?isas City, Mo. 



The Cowbird Wintering in New Hampshire. — I shot a male Cowbird 

 {Molothrus ater) Jan. iS, 1895, on one of the principal streets of the town. 

 It was in company with a flock of Sparrows feeding in front of a grain 

 store. The bird had been seen at odd times throughout the winter, 

 usually in company with the Sparrows. It was in good plumage and 

 condition, and did not seem to mind the cold weather. It would probably 

 haye remained all winter, for the snow had coyered the ground for nearly 

 two months and the mercury had touched 20" below zero several times. — 

 F. B. Spaulding, Lancaster, N. H. 



The Goldfinch {Cardiiclis cardtielis') near Boston, Mass. — In Brook- 

 line, Massachusetts, in May, 1892, I noted a bird of this species feeding in 

 a pine tree in company' with a few American Goldfinches. It seemed 

 perfectly at home and therefore I take it was not an escaped cage bird, — 

 rather one of tlie Goldfinches or their offspring that were imported to 

 this country not long ago. — Reginald Heher Howk. Jr.. Boston. Xfa.^s. 



Second Occurrence of Harris's Sparrow {Zonotrickt'a querula') in 

 British Columbia. — Mr. Allan C. Brooks writes me that on January 9. 

 1895, he shot two Harris's Sparrows and saw a third at Chilliwack, British 

 Columbia. According to Mr. Rhoads the only previous instance of the 

 occurrence of this species "on the Pacific side of the Rocky Mountain.s " 

 is that of a specimen taken by Mr. Maynard near \'ictoria early in April, 

 1891 (Rhoads, Proc. Acad. \at. Sci. Phila., 1S93, p. 49J. — Wii.lia.m 

 Brewster, Cambridge, Mass. 



A Set of Unspotted Eggs of the Chipping Sparrow. — Nests of the 

 Chipping Sparrow {Spizclla socialist are frequently found containing 

 one or two of the eggs without spots, but never until the past summer 

 have I found or heard of a set in which all the eggs were devoid of 



