^°lg^3^] General Notes. (y'l^ 



extended ; to the Washington members of the Union for the 

 cordial welcome and generous hospitality shown visiting members ; 

 to Prof. S. P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 for his polite invitation to the members of the Union to visit the 

 National Zoological Park ; and to the Superintendent of the Park, 

 Dr. Frank Baker, through whom the invitation was received. 



Dr. T. S. Palmer, Mr. Frank M. Chapman and Dr. C. W. 

 Richmond were appointed ' Committee on International Bird 

 Protection,' and Ruthven Deane and William Dutcher delegates 

 to the forthcoming Congress. 



The question of holding a Special Meeting of the Union in 

 California during May or June, 1903, was referred to a Committee, 

 with power. 



On Friday, November 21, after adjournment of the Union, 

 many members visited the National Zoological Park by invitation 

 of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Prof. Langley 

 received the visitors, who were subsequently taken through the 

 Park by Dr. Frank Baker, the Superintendent. 



The Congress adjourned to meet in Philadelphia, November 

 16, 1903. 



Jno. H. Sage, 



Secretary. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Breeding Grounds of the Black and Socorro Petrels. — A Correction. — 

 In my recent paper on the ' Birds of the Cape Region of Lower Califor- 

 nia,' I stated (p. 33) that "on July 10, 1S96, Mr. Anthony found some 

 Black and Socorro Petrels breeding together on one of the Coronados 

 Islands "(in the Gulf of California)." There is a Coronados Island lying 

 close to the eastern shore of the Peninsula in the Gulf of California in 

 about latitude 26° N., and a group of islands bearing the same name 

 situated off the Pacific coast only about twenty miles south of San Diego, 

 California. Just what led me to attribute Mr. Anthony's observations 

 to the former locality I cannot now remember, but in so doing I was 

 evidently in error, for Mr. Frank S. Daggett writes me that he has 

 tlefinite information to the effect that Mr. Anthony did not visit the Gulf 



