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The three eggs collected April 19, 1897, measure, respectively, 

 • 79 X -58; -So x-58; -78 X -58- The ground color is very faint 

 bluish-white, 7— lighter than in A. sanctorum, — heavily marked 

 all over with large blotches of raw umber and smaller spots of 

 lilac ; these markings much heavier than in safuiorum. A few 

 hairlike lines of blackish run over small end of one egg and about 

 its small diameter. Nest larger than that of San Benito Island 

 species, made of salt grass and lined with fine shreds of grass 

 and a few feathers of Lams. 



The setting parent was flushed from this nest while I was about 

 fifteen feet distant, and became very uneasy in voice and action. 

 A careful search revealed the rest, sixteen inches from the ground, 

 in a tall bunch of glasswort, the top of which was bent over and 

 in to form a covering. The eggs were concealed from a top view, 

 and entrance to the nest was possible from one side only. The 

 taking of incubated eggs at this date, and of laying females in 

 June, shows that two broods are raised in a year. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The Pacific Kittiwake {Rissa tfidactyla pollicaris) in Lower California. 

 — On March 17, 1897, I shot a fully adult Pacific Kittiwake, at San 

 Geronimo Island, Lower California, about 200 miles south of the United 

 States boundary line, thus extending the known range of that species to 

 Mexican waters. 



For the past three winters I have found the Kittiwakes of regular, though 

 not common occurrence, off San Diego, California, and about the Coronado 

 Islands. — A. W. Anthony, PortUind, Oregofi. 



Capture of the Short-tailed Albatross on the Coast of Southern Cali- 

 fornia. — The Zoological Department of Stanford University, California, 

 has been recently presented Avith a fine specimen in the flesh of Diomedea 

 albatrus. 



It was taken at San Pedro, Los Angeles Co., Cal., on April 3, 1S98, by 

 Mr. Cloudsley Rutler, who shipped it to the Museum of the Department. 



This bird being of rather uncommon occurrence on our coast here, 1 

 send this notice of its capture. — Robt. B. McLain, Stanford University, 

 CaL 



