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Pithecophaga jrfferyi is still among the rarest birds in museum collections. 

 Mr. Keller's is the second specimen to reach America, and makes the first 

 authentic record for the island of Mindanao. I saw one in the Menage 

 collection, at the Public Library, in Minneapolis, and one in Manila, and 

 know of but five preserved specimens. Mr. Keller's is a male (No. 192,382, 

 U. S. National Museum), taken near Davao, Mindanao, P. I., Septembers, 

 1904. It closely resembles the type; but broader shaft-stripes to the 

 feathers give the head a darker color than that of the male described and 

 figured by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant (Ibis for 1897, plate V). From the skin I took 

 the following measurements: Length, 980 mm.; wing, 600 ; tail, 465; 

 chord of culmen, 65; chord of culmen and cere, taken together, 78; cere, 

 21 ; depth of bill, 51 ; depth of culmen, 41 ; greatest width of culmen, 21 ; 

 tarsus, length, 22; tarsus, circumference, 60; inner claw (chord), 49; mid 

 dle claw, 39; outer claw, 30; hind claw, 52; hind toe, without claw, 51 ; 

 width of middle tail-feather, 98 ; length of longest occipital feather, 90. 

 Edgar A. Mearns, 



A NEW NAME FOR THE PEROMYSCUS NEBRACENSIS OF 

 CERTAIN AUTHORS. 



The name Ilenperumys sonoriensis va.r. nebracensis was used first by Baird, 

 who mentioned it without description in text under his Hesperomys leuco- 

 pus (Mamm. N. Am., p. 462, 1857). It appears next in 1877, when Coues 

 quotes the name in synonymy under Hesperomys leucopus sonoriensis. It 

 remained a nomen nudum until 1890, when Mearns used it in connection 

 with a full description and designated a specimen which he called his "type 

 of diagnosis," No. 1200 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., N. Y., from Calf Creek, 

 Montana (See Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. II, pp. 285-287, Feb. 21, 1890). 

 The name nebracensis will therefore date from Mearns, not from Baird, and 

 the type of Mearns' diagnosis will be the type in fact. Authors subsequent 

 to Mearns have frequently used the name nebracensis for a very small and 

 bright colored mouse found in Western Nebraska and adjacent regions. It 

 is a well known form, specimens of which are contained in most of our 

 large museums, and doubtless is the form that Baird intended to name. It 

 is however very different from the nebracensis of Mearns, which is much 

 larger and darker and more closely related to the form later called subarc- 

 ticus by Allen. The small bright colored form therefore needs a new name 

 and may be called Peromyscus luteus. The type is No. iff ff Biological Sur 

 vey Coll., U. S. National Museum, collected April 23, 1890, at Kennedy, 

 Nebraska, by Vernon Bailey. Measurements of type: Total length, 152 ; 

 tail vertebrae, 62 ; hind foot, 20. Color: Upperparts bright ochraceous buff 

 very lightly mixed with dusky ; subauricular spots pure white, large, and 

 conspicuous ; underparts pupe white. Wilfred H. Osgood. 



