General Notes. 1/7 



dry gray graces and fine shreds of vegetable bark, and lined with black 

 and white horse hairs : it measures exactly 4 inches in diameter by \'\ 

 high, and internally 2 inches in diameter by \\ in depth. It contained 

 tour incubated eggs, of a light pearl white, thickly dotted with brownish 

 red and traces of lilac on the larger end. They measure .57 x .48; .60 x .50 ; 

 .64X.50; .58X.49. 



Another set of four was laid in a similar nest built in a depression 

 beneath a small bush on the lower side of a mountain trail. The eggs of 

 this set are somewhat larger and spotted over the entire egg, the markings 

 clustering about the larger end. The measurements of three of them are 

 .69 x .52 ; .65 x .51 ; .66 x .50; the fourth was unfortunately broken. 



I have compared both sets with three differently marked eggs of 5. 

 ruticilla and find scarcely a similarity. The first set mentioned resem- 

 bles three eggs I have of Myiodioctes pustllus pileolatus so closely that 

 it is almost impossible to distinguish between them.- — W. E. Bryant, 

 San Francisco. Cat. 



Breeding of the Horned Lark in Eastern New York. — On April 

 22. 1SS1. Edward Root, of Green Island. N. Y.. brought to me two young- 

 Horned Larks (Eremofhila alpestris), about three-fourths grown and 

 able to fly. On April 29 of the same year he brought to me an adult pair 

 of the same species. Mr. Root informed me that he took the young and 

 the old all at the same place, on Green Island, which is at the junction of 

 the Mohawk River with the Hudson, about thirty feet above tide-water 

 level, and at latitude 42° 45'. — Austin F. Park. Troy. N. Y. ' 



Behavior of Leucosticte tephrocotis in Confinement. — While 

 stationed at Fort Fetterman, Wyoming, in the spring of 1880. I captured 

 eight Gray-crowned Finches, all apparently in perfect health and feather. 

 After the capture I decided, as well as I could from the diagnostic points 

 of size and plumage, that I had the sexes about equally represented. Two 

 of the birds, most undoubtedly males, wore the characteristic plumage of 

 Leucosticte campestris : the grey of the crown extending well below the 

 eye. As these birds were very plenty about my quarters, and anticipat- 

 ing the care of my pets, I had already constructed a large double cage for 

 them, consisting essentially of a lower or breeding cage, 3 x 2£ feet, with a 

 large side door, and admitting the light from in front and upper half 

 through a rather coarse net-work. This part of their home was intended 

 to represent and take the place of their outdoor existence. The floor was 

 covered with two or three inches of earth and sodded : the grass growing 

 well. Various styles of perches were introduced, miniature clumps ol dry 

 grasses, and odds and ends of building materials. Above and easy of 

 access there was another cage, 2 x 2 x 2,£ feet, with its floor also spread with 

 earth, well lighted, and containing a large bath-tub and a shelf iutended 

 to represent the eaves of a house, a style of perch the Gray-crowned Finch 

 is particularly fond of. The capture was effected on the 10th of March, 

 and the little fellows were introduced to their home for the summer. I 



