V ° 8 ' 93 X ] General Notes. 36 1 



Dubit, N. W. Borneo. (Ibis, April, 1S93.) (6) On a Collection of Birds from 

 Mount Uubit, in Northwestern Borneo. (Ibis, July, 1892.) (7) Descrip- 

 tions of some new Species of Timeliine Birds from West Africa. (P. Z. S., 

 1892.) (S) On birds collected in Pesak. (Repaged separate, without indi- 

 cation of source.) (9) The Ornithological Work of J. S. Jameson. 

 (Separate from 'Story of the Rear Column.') (10) On the Zoo-Geographi- 

 cal Areas of the World, illustrating the Distribution of Birds. (Natural 

 Science, Aug., 1893) 



Stejneger, Leonhard. On the Status of the Gray Shrike, collected by 

 Capt. Blakiston, in Yezo, Japan. (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus , XVI, pp. 217, 

 21S.) 



American Journ. Sci., July-Sept., 1893. 



American Naturalist, July-Sept., 1S93. 



Annals of Scottish Natural History, July, 1S93 



Australian Museum. Rep. of Trustees. 1S92. 



Bulletin British Ornithologists' Club, No. 10, July, 1893. 



Forest and Stream, XL, Nos. 24-26, XLI, Nos. 1-12, 1S93. 



Journal da Acad, real das Sci. de Lisboa, III, No. 9, April, 1S93. 



Naturalist, Month. Journ. Nat. Hist, for North of England, Nos. 216- 

 218, July-Sept., 1S93 



Observer, IV, Nos. 7-9, July-Sept., 1S93. 



Ornithologisches Jahrbuch, Heft 4, July-Aug., 1S93. 



Ornithologische Monatsberichte, I, Nos. 7-9, July-Sept., 1893. 



Ornithologist ami Oologist, XVIII. June, July, 1S93. 



Proceedings Linnaean Society New York, Abstract of, No. 5, 1S92-93. 



Proceedings and Trausactions of Nova Scotia Inst, of Science, I, pt. 2, 

 1S91-92. 



Shooting and Fishing, XIV, Nos. 11-20, 1S93. 



Zoe, IV, No. 2, July, 1S93. 



Zoologist, July-Sept., 1S93. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Capture of the Black-capped Petrel Inland in Virginia. — The little 

 town of Blacksburg, in Montgomery County, Virginia, beyond the Blue 

 Ridge, and about 2150 feet above the sea. is distant from the coast about 

 two hundred miles. Yet here, on August 30, 1S93, two days after the great 

 cyclone, I obtained a bird, the capture of which would be well worthy of 

 note if made anywhere on the coast of the United States. A negro brought 

 me, confined alive in a shoe box, a bird which he had captured on a small 

 fish pond that day; the bird could scarcely fly, and he had caught it by 

 hand. I recognized it as one of the Procellariida;, but its large size and 

 stout, strongly hooked beak brought to my mind only vague visions of 

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