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with grayish, and not contrasting noticeably with the lesser coverts ; 



six middle rectrices uniform cinereous, the outer pair with exterior 



webs uniform white. Wing, 9; tail, 3.80; culmen, 1.04; tarsus, 1.07; 



middle toe, with claw, 1.40. Hob. — Eastern South Pacitic (off" coast 



of Peru). 



The comparison with (E. dejlllipiana resting only on the description 

 and a colored plate, it may be, therefore, that some of the differential 

 characters adduced in the above comparative diagnosis would not be 

 found to hold good on actual examination of specimens. This is par- 

 ticularly liable to be the case regarding the coloration of the rectrices in 

 CE. dejillipiana, which are not described with sufficient detail, while the 

 figure may not be perfectly accurate so far as this feature is concerned. 



The most nearly related species with which I have been able to com- 

 pare (E. Jisheri is Q^. {jnlaris Peale. The latter, however, is very dis- 

 tinct, the coloration being in almost every respect dissimilar, while the 

 bill is much stouter through the base, and the tarsi and toes decidedly 

 shorter. 



A Petrel captured in Livingston County, New York, in April, 1880, 

 described by Mr. Brewster in the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological 

 Club for April, 1881, and there referred to (E. gularis, seems, judging 

 from the descrijjtion, to belong rather to (E. Jisheri. Should such ijrovo 

 to be the case, Mr. Brewster was evidently wrong in his determination. 

 The specimen in question was compared with the type of (E. gtdaris, 

 and the differences of plumage ascribed to difference of age of the two 

 specimens; bnt no fact in ornithology can be more thoroughly estab- 

 lished than that, with the possible exception of the Albatrosses, the Petrels 

 have no distinct progressive stages of plumage, the young assuming with 

 their first feathers the fully adult livery. 



DE.t^CKIPTION OF A !>$PE:CIES OF WIIITKFIimi, CORECJOIVB. « IIOVI 

 (OIIjI.) JORDAN, €AI.I>E1> "SMEI.T" IN SOIVIF PAKTS OF J\FU' 

 YORK. 



By TARLETOX H. BEAN. 



Our attention has recently been called by the Ei>,v. W. M. Beauchamp 

 to a species of "smelt" in some lakes in l^ew York, and finally Mr. J. 

 C. Willetts has forwarded numerous specimens of this fish from Skane- 

 ateles. This is not an Osmerus, as the common name would imply, but 

 a little-known Goregonus, and worthy of description. 



The largest New York specimen of this fish now in the collection is 

 numbered 32162 in the National Museum Eegister; it was obtained in 

 Seneca Lake, in June, 1878, by Prof. H. L. Smith, who sent it to the 

 Museum. Seven additional examples were received October 2, 1882, from 

 Skaneateles, N. Y., whence they were forwarded by Mr. J. C. Willetts. 

 The catalogue number of these specimens is 32165. The individuals 



