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GENERAL NOTES. 



Murres in Western New York. — Writing from Geneva, N. Y., Mr. L. 

 Clark states tliat a specimen of Uria lomvia was killed on Seneca Lake, 

 December 23, 1895, a second in Ma^-, 1896, and a third on December 26, 

 1896. He also reports that J. S. Baker, a taxidermist at Geneva, has had 

 several specimens of the same species brought him by hunters for mount- 

 ing and that numbers had been seen on the lake during the winter of 

 1896. Previous to December 1895, the bird was not known to occur. — 

 Frank M. Chapman, Americati Museum of Natural History, New York 

 City. 



Unusual Occurrence of Briinnich's Murres at Beverly, New Jersey. — 



During the occurrence of the heavy gale which prevailed along the coast 

 about the middle of December, 1896, great numbers of Briinnich's Murres 

 Avere seen and shot at different points along the Delaware River. On the 

 15th a boy shot one from the shore at Edgewater Park, the skin of which 

 was preserved. Tlie next morning I witnessed several flocks of fifteen or 

 twenty birds each flying up the river, and secured two specimens. During 

 the afternoon they returned in scattered flocks numbering about three 

 hundred. A flock flew over my boat while crossing the river, low enough 

 to have been struck with an oar. Those which remained about the river 

 during the dav to feed, were quite tame, and could be easily approached 

 without alarm. One was also shot further down the river at Palmyra, and 

 I was informed, several above Burlington. — J. Harris Reed, Beverly, 

 N.J. 



Briinnich's Murre {Uria lomvia) at Newberne, N. C. — While in 

 eastern North Carolina during the holidays I secured a specimen of 

 Briinnich's Murre at Newberne. It was killed in the river near there the 

 22d or 23d of December. To make more sure of its identification I sent a 

 description of it to Mr. Robert Ridgway who replied that my specimen is 

 Uria lomvia. I can find no record of it having been taken in the State 

 before. — T. Gilbert Pearson. Guilford College, N. C. 



Briinnich's Murre and King Eider at Cape Charles, Virginia. — Two 

 specimens of Briinnich's Murre {Uria lomvia) were taken at Cape Charles, 

 Virginia, and six others seen, Dec. 17, 1896. At the same locality, on 

 Jan. 2, 1897, a King Eider (So7)iateria spectabilis) was taken. I exhibited 

 the King Eider and one of the Murres at a meeting of the Deleware Orni- 

 thological Club, at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. As 

 far as I can ascertain, this is the most southern recorded capture of the 

 King Eider. — William L. Whittaker, Cedar Grove, Philadelphia, Pa. 



