V"'- ^^1 General Notes. 47^ 



1903 J TOO 



Dr. Coker gave me an egg, with incubation nearly complete, 

 found b}' flushing the parent off the nest, July 11, on Watling's 

 Island. He also showed me a nest on Long Island, July 17, con- 

 taining one young in the down on which the feathers had just 

 begun to grow. In both cases there was no nest other than a 

 slight hollow in the little sand that had collected in the cavities of 

 the rough coral rock of the beach. 



The &%g has a slight greenish-white ground color with larger 

 and smaller spots and blotches, which run together at the larger 

 end to form an indistinct wreath, of lighter and darker shades of 

 plumbeous. Over this there are small streaky spots of raw umber, 

 evenly distributed over the shell. It measures 23.4 x 12.5 mm. 

 In color it is exactly intermediate between eggs of C. v. minor and 

 C. V. chapjimni. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Sabine's Gull at Monterey, California. — While carrying out a line o 

 work for the Field Columbian Museum, last April in the vicinity of 

 Monterey, Cal., I came across a small bunch of Sabine's Gull i^Xenia 

 sabinii) in perfect spring plumage. They came into the Bay with hun- 

 dreds of Bonaparte Gulls and Red Phalaropes after a storm of a week's 

 duration. — George F. Breninger, Phoenix., Arizona. 



The Snowy Plover in the Bahamas. — Mr. S. H. Derickson shot a spe- 

 cimen of yEgialitis. tiivosa on Long Island, Bahamas, July 16, 1903. It 

 was in the company of another of the same species, he tells me. This is 

 the first record of this species, I believe, for the Bahamas. The specimen 

 is now in the U. S. National Museum. — J. H. Riley, Washing-ton, D. C. 



Richardson's Owl (Nyctala tengniahni richardsoni) in Illinois. — In 

 recording the second capture of this owl for the Stale, I mentioned ' that 

 another specimen had been reported, but that I was then unable to get 



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