APPENDIX. 



Since the foregoing pages have been put into metal I have received notes on 

 the nesting habits of the following species. In some cases their nidification baa 

 hitherto been unknown, and is not mentioned under their respective titles in the 

 body of this work: 



25. XANTUS'S MTJRRELET. Brachyramphus hypoleucus Xantus. 



Here is probably the first knowledge we have regarding the nesting and eggs 

 of Xantus's Murrelet. Two sets of two eggs each are in the extensive oological 

 collection of Mr. C. W. Crandall, Woodside, N. Y., and to this collection I shall 

 have occasion to refej 1 several times in this Appendix on account of the new 

 material recently acquired of especial interest to ornithologists and oologista. 

 The eggs of this species were collected by the well-known ornithologist, A. W. 

 Anthony, on San Benito Island, Lower California, March 28th, 1897. The nests 

 were in clefts of rocks and the birds had to be lifted from the nest before the 

 eggs could be secured. The ground color is almost an exact raw umber, over which 

 are spots and blotches of walnut brown and umber with under shell markings of 

 a much lighter shade. These are sparingly distributed at the large end, where 

 they form somewhat of a wreath, though not massed together so as to lose their 

 distinctness. Set No. 1 measures 2.10x1.39, 2.13x1.39; No. 2, 2.12x1.47, x2.06xl.43 

 inches respectively. 



79a. RIDGWAY'S TERN. Anous stolidus ridffwayi. 



This new species of Tern was found breeding on Socorro Island, Mexico, about 

 the middle of May, 1897, depositing its single egg on the bare rocks. The eggs are 

 hardly distinguishable from those of the Noddy Tern. Five eggs in Mr. CrandaH'a 

 collection measure respectively as follows: 2.00x1.43, 2.00x1.46, 1.96x1.36, 1.99x1.40, 

 2.15x1.47 inches. 



93. BLACK- VENTED SHEARWATER. Puflinus gavia (Forst.) 

 A. W. Anthony collected eggs of this species on Nativadad Island in April, 1897. 

 The nests were in burrows in the sand five or six feet deep, and the birds were 

 taken on their nests. A single egg is laid; it is of a clear, pure white texture, 

 elongate ovate in shape and quite pointed. Three sets of one egg each are in Mr. 

 Crandall's collection and measure as follows: 2.36x1.57; 2.33x1.59; 2.54x1.69 

 respectively. 



206 SANDHILL CRANE. Orus mexicana (Mull.) 



W C Mills of Chicago Junction, Huron Co., O., took near that place on N 



1897, two sets of two eggs each of the Sandhill Crane, and on the 18th anoth. 



two This establishes the fact that the bird very likely breeds regularly in Nort 



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