Vol. XXIII 



1906 



General Xotes. 



99 



Careful search will probably bring to light several other records, especi- 

 ally of some of the birds taken on Long Island. For convenience of com- 

 parison the data for the six additions to Mr. Deane's list are appended in 

 the same form as that adopted in his table: 



Sex 



$ad. 



cfad. 

 ? 

 9 

 ?im. 



Locality 



Date 



Barbados, W. I. 



Spanish Guiana 



Graeme Hall Swamp, 



Barbados, W. I. 

 Sakonnet Point, R.I. 



Nantucket, Mass. 



Point Judith, R. I. 



Before 1848 



1875 

 1878 

 July 30, 1900 

 July, 1901 

 Aug.31.1903. 



Collection 



References 



British Museum 



H. E. Hodek, 



Vienna 

 British Museum 



John E. Thayer 



Le Roy King, 

 Newport, R.I. 



Schomburgk, Hist, 



Barbadoes, 1848. 

 Feilden, Ibis, 1889, p, 



494. 

 Pelzeln, Ibis, 1875, p. 



322 

 Feilden, Ibis, 1889, 



p. 495. 

 Hathaway, Notes R. 



I. Orn., I, p. 20,1900. 

 Palmer, Auk. XXIII, 



p. 98, 1906. 

 King, Auk, XXI, p. 



85, 1904. 



T. S. Palmer, Washington, D. C. 



Prolific Duck Hawks. — In the spring of 1898 Mr. George H. Burge of 

 this place, at that time actively interested in the collection of eggs of our 

 local birds, took two sets of eggs of the Duck Hawk (Falco peregrinus 

 anatum) which seem worthy of record. In the preceding years he had 

 taken several sets of four eggs each of this species at various places along 

 the palisades of the Cedar River, five miles southwest of Mt. Vernon, and 

 had even collected a set of five on April 12, 1895. This last nest-site was 

 a small cavity, three and a half feet in length, and twenty feet from the 

 top of a hundred and ten foot cliff. In 1898 this site was again occupied 

 and on April 5 of that year Mr. Burge and an assistant took therefrom a set 

 of six eggs, slightly advanced in incubation. One egg, and possibly two, 

 appeared to the collector to be infertile. They are quite uniform in size 

 and shape, averaging 49X39 mm., a little smaller than the average as 

 given by Bendire. In color they are nearly typical, though perhaps 

 somewhat light. A pinkish suffusion gives a peculiarly rich appearance 

 to several of the eggs. About three weeks later the same collector took 

 another set of six eggs from a narrow ledge on a sixty foot cliff a half mile 

 farther down and on the opposite side of the river, the aerie being about 

 thirty feet above the water. The eggs were fresh and without much doubt 

 were from the same pair of birds which had shortly before produced the 

 first set of six, the old site having been abandoned. The collector had the 

 misfortune to find two of the eggs of this set crushed slightly in the nest, 

 which probably explains his lack of interest in preserving the exact date 

 of collecting. The eggs were saved in good, whole condition, however, 

 and are the lightest colored specimens of this species which have ever come 



