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does not exist in the sonthern parts of New York or Pennsylvania. 

 DeKaj^ states that it is found in the northern parts of Virginia and Ken- 

 tucky. We, however, sought for it without success in the mountains of 

 Virginia, and could never hear of its existence in Kentuck3\" 



Professor Baird states* that the species is found as far south as 

 l!forthern Pennsylvania in some localities^ in which State it is not rare 

 even now. 



Mr. J. A. Allen, the most recent writer on the i)orcnpines, remarks,! 

 that Professor Shaler had failed to hear of the species in Kentucky and 

 Virginia. He was informed by Dr. J. M. Wheaton that a few ])orcu- 

 l^ines still survive in Clark, Champaign, and Eoss Counties, Ohio, and 

 that it was common ten years since in Putnam County ; and by Mr. E. 

 W. Nelson that the si^ecies was formerly rather common, though never 

 abundant, in all of the wooded region north of the Ohio liiver, but that 

 it is not now found (west of Ohio) south of the forests of Northern Wis- 

 consin and Northern Michigan. 



December 12, 1878. 



CATAliOGUE OF TME BIRDS OF <,}RFXAOA, FROM A €Or,ff>.E< TION 

 MADE BY MK. FK!!:D. A. OOtER FOR TUBE SiTJHTTDISOXDA.'V DIVSTITIJ. 

 TION, IIV€l,UDa:^CJ OTEIERS SKEJV SY HDITI, BUT NOT OBTAINED. 



By OEOKGE N. LA^^^REl^CE. 



In ray Catalogue of the Birds of St. Vincent, I stated that Mr. Ober 

 expected to leave that island for Grenada on the 29th of February. He 

 must have left about that time, as some of his notes from Grenada are 

 dated early in March. His collection from there was received at the 

 Smithsonian Institution on the 22d of Maj', and sent to me a few days 

 after. It consists of but 60 specimens.' 



In the following communication from Mr. Ober, he gives the geograph- 

 ical position of the island, with other matters of interest. 



Under most of the species found there, are his notes of their 

 habits, etc. 



His communications are marked with inverted commas. 



"Grenada, the southernmost of the volcanic islands, lies just north 

 of the 12th degree of latitude north of the equator, that parallel just 

 touching its southern j)oint. 



" It is about 18^ miles in length, from N. N. E. to S. S. W., and 7^ 

 miles in breadth. 



" From Kingston, the principal town in St. Vincent, to St. Georges, 

 that of Grenada, the distance is 75 miles ; from the southern end of St. 

 Vincent to the northern jjoint of Grenada the distance is GO miles j the 

 intervening space being occupied by the Grenadines. 



* Mammals of North America, 1859, p. 568. 



t Monographs of North American Kodentia, by Elliott Coues and Joel Asaph Allen, 

 1877, p. 393. 



