Nov., 1913 
HENRY BARROILIIET KAEDING 
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to them, and several new species and races were discovered and described. 
After several ventures in the metallurgical or mining line, maintaining an 
office in San Francisco with his brother for a while, and also doing some work in 
Plumas County, California, Kaeding was induced to go out to Korea, as metallur- 
gist, bv the Oriental Consolidated Mining Company. There he stayed for three 
years. After this he spent several years in charge of mining properties on the 
west coast of Mexico, and finally went to Nicaragua, staying there some two 
years. It was there that his health became affected, the climate not agreeing with 
him at all. He returned to the United States for treatment, but it was too late, as 
his heart had become involved. 
On his wav back to California he visited Washington, U. C., to meet some 
of the ornithologists there, with whom he had from time to time been in cor- 
respondence ; but most unfortunately most of them were away on vacations or 
out on field duty, much to his regret. Mr. A. B. Howell, of Covina, California, 
is identified with the preparation of a work upon North American birds, and Mr. 
Kaeding was to have supplied him with notes that would have greatly enhanced 
its value. 4 
The accuracy of Kaeding’s mind is well exemplified in the “Ten-year Index 
to the Condor,” successfully compiled by him in 1908, and brought to publica- 
tion early in 1909 as Pacific Coast Avifauna Number 6. 
Kaeding was a jovial comrade in the field, never afraid of hard work, a firm 
supporter of the Cooper Ornithological Club, and was ever dreaming of the time 
when he would “make his pile” and do all sorts of things for the “C. O. C.” Why 
he should have been taken so earl}^ from our midst is one of those things no man 
may know. We wonder — but we must accept. 
NOTES ON THE EGGS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN LIMICOLAE, 
REFERRING PRINCIPALLY TO THE ACCIDENTAL VlSLi'ORS 
By HERBERT MASSEY, M. B. O. U. 
I WAvS I'dUCH interested in Dr. Shufeldt’s paper on the North American 
Limicolae in The Condor for July-August, 1913, and trust th.at he will find 
time to give descriptions and plates of the eggs of the rarer Limicolae, es- 
pecially of those species that figure in the B. O. LT. list, of the eggs of which we 
have few examples in England. Of the European species given by Dr. Shufeldt, 
and which are almost accidental visitants to A.merica, I think he has been ham- 
pered by having too little data to work on ; and on this account I venture to en- 
large upon what he has already written, thinking that it may interest some of our 
readers who may wish to know the extreme range of variation in the eggs of this 
the most interesting group of birds — the Limicolae. These notes are taken from 
the most extensive private collection of eggs of the Limicolae in England. 
Phalaropus (or Steganopus) tricolor. Wilson Phalarope. 
Phalaropus fulicarius. Red (or Gray) Phalarope. 
Phalaropus hyperboreus (or Lobipes lobatus). Red-necked (or Northern) 
Phalarope. 
As regards the ground color of the eggs of the three Phalaropes, I find those 
of P. tricolor to be the least variable, being mostly dififerent shades of clay color, 
the pale stone color and the various .shades of olive, as in the other two species. 
