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 Nov., 1913 HENRY BARROILHET KAEDING 193 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, by.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 way back to California he visited Washington, D.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. !. !, The accuracy of Kaeding's mind is well exemplified' in the "Ten-year Index to the Condor," successfully compiled by him in 9o8, and brough t to publica- tion early in 9o9 as Pacific Coast Avifanna 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 early from our midst is one of those things no man may know. We wonder--but we must accept. NOTES ON THE EGGS OF THE'}IORTH AMERICAN LIMICOLAE, IEFERRING PRINCIPALLY TO' THE ACCIDENTAl, VISITORS By HERBERT MASSEY, M. B. O. U. VrAS .MUCH interested in Dr. _hufeldts paper on the North American S ' Limicolae in. Tn Coxton for Jnly-August, 93, and trust'that he xvill 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. U. list, of the eggs of which we have few examples in England. Of the European species given by Dr. Shufeldt, and which are lmost accidental visitants to America, 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 frown the most extensive private collection of eggs of the Limicolae in England. lhalaropus (or Steganopus) tricolor. Wilson Phalarope. lhalaropus fulicarius. Red (or Gray) Phalarope. lhalaropus hyperboreus (or I,obipes 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 different shades of clay color, the pale stone color and the various shades of olive, as in the other two pecies,