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GENERAL NOTES. 
Murres in Western New York. — Writing from Geneva, N. Y., Mr. L. 
Clark states that a specimen of Urza lomvia was killed on Seneca Lake, 
December 23, 1895, a second in May, 1896, and a third on December 26, 
1896. He also reports that J.S. Baker, a taxidermist at Geneva, has had 
several specimens of the same species brought him by hunters for mount- 
ing and that numbers had been seen on the lake during the winter of 
1896. Previous to December 1895, the bird was not known to occur.— 
FRANK M. CHAPMAN, American Museum of Natural History, New Vork 
City. 
Unusual Occurrence of Briinnich’s Murres at Beverly, New Jersey. — 
During the occurrence of the heavy gale which prevailed along the coast 
about the middle of December, 1896, great numbers of Briinnich’s Murres 
were seen and shot at different points along the Delaware River. On the 
15th a boy shot one from the shore at Edgewater Park, the skin of which 
was preserved. The next morning I witnessed several flocks of fifteen or 
twenty birds each flying up the river, and secured two specimens. During 
the afternoon they returned in scattered flocks numbering about three 
hundred. A flock flew over my boat while crossing the river, lowenough 
to have been struck with an oar. Those which remained about the river 
during the day to feed, were quite tame, and could be easily approached 
without alarm. One was also shot further down the river at Palmyra, and 
I was informed, several above Burlington.—J. HARRIS REED, Beverly, 
Nays 
Briinnich’s Murre (Urza lomvia) at Newberne, N. C.— While in 
eastern North Carolina during the holidays I secured a specimen of 
Briinnich’s Murre at Newberne. It was killed in the river near there the 
22d or 23d of December. To make more sure of its identification I sent a 
description of it to Mr. Robert Ridgway who replied that my specimen is 
Uria lomvia. can find no record of it having been taken in the State 
before. —T. GILBERT PEARSON, Guzlford College, N. C. 
Briinnich’s Murre and King Eider at Cape Charles, Virginia. — Two 
specimens of Briinnich’s Murre (Urza lomvia) were taken at Cape Charles, 
Virginia, and six others seen, Dec. 17, 1896. At the same locality, on 
Jan. 2, 1897, a King Eider ( Somateria spectabil’s) was taken. I exhibited 
the King Eider and one of the Murres at a meeting of the Deleware Orni- 
thological Club, at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. As 
far as I can ascertain, this is the most southern recorded capture of the 
King Eider. — WiLiiam L. WHITTAKER, Cedar Grove, Philadelphia, Pa. 
