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GENERAL NOTES. 



The Type Locality of Uria t. troille. — The Common Murre ( Uria 

 troille troille) was named by Linnaeus in his 'Fauna Suecica,' ed. 2, 1761, 

 p. 52. He gives only one reference, Martens' ' Spitzbergische Reise,' which 

 contains both description and a plate of a specimen taken July 25, 1671, in 

 the northeastern part of Spitzbergen. There is nothing in Martens' descrip- 

 tion or plate that would not apply equally well to Uria lomvia, and as a fact 

 this is the bird which Martens had in hand, for the bird we now know as 

 Uria troille does not occur anywhere in Spitzbergen, while Uria lomvia still 

 occurs there " by thousands " as Martens says he found them there at 

 latitude 80° N., much farther north than troille ever ranges. 



The description of Linnaeus is fuller in some particulars than that of 

 Martens showing that Linnseus had a specimen, which would have come 

 from the coast of Sweden and which would actually have l^een the species 

 now known as troille, since this is the form which occurs there and not 

 lomvia. Therefore the type locality of Uria troille troille should be given 

 as Sweden instead of Spitzbergen. — Wells W. Cooke, Biological Survey 

 Washington, D. C. 



The Pomarine Jaeger and the Purple Gallinule in Western Mis- 

 souri. — A Pomarine Jaeger {Stercorarius potnarinus) was taken at Eaton 

 Bend on the Missouri River, a few miles below Kansas City, Mo., on 

 November 28, 1915, by Joe Barlow. As far as I can learn this is the first 

 record of the capture of this species in Missouri. On December 31, 1915, 

 an immature Purple Gallinule {lonornis martinica) was captured alive on 

 the flats near Kansas City, Mo., and given to Miss Clements of Independ- 

 ence, Mo., who brought the bii'd to the attention of the Kansas City Bird 

 Club. Widmann gives two records for the Purple Gallinule for Missouri, 

 both in April, 1877, in the vicinity of St. Louis. (Birds of Missouri, p. 61) . — 

 Ralph Hoffmann, Kansas City, Mo. 



The Breeding Range of Leach's Petrel. — In ' The Auk ' for April, 

 1915, p. 173, Mr. R. C. Murphy states that the breeding range of Oceano- 

 droma leucorhoa should be given as follows: — "Southern Greenland 

 and the Fseroes south to Maine and the Hebrides." Cm-iously enough the 

 breeding. range of this species is incorrectly given in both the ' Hand List 

 of British Birds ' and also in the ' B. O. U. List of British Birds.' In the 

 former it is said not to breed in Europe outside the British Isles, and in the 

 latter to " occur," in Iceland. As a matter of fact there is a large breeding 

 colony on the Westmann Islands, southwest Iceland, but as far as I am 

 aware there is no evidence of nesting anywhere on the Fseroes. Laubmann 

 in his recent paper, 'Fauna Farceensis,' makes no mention of it, and 

 Muller & Feilden state that it is not known to breed there. If Mr. Murphy 



