' This rare bird lias recently been rediscovered in Louisiana, Mr. C. S. Galbraith iuiving taken a siiecimen 

 near Lake Pontchartrain in 188G. (The Auk, Jan. 1887, p. 35. ) Still another specimen, perhaps one of Audubon's 

 types, has been found by Mr. William Brewster in the Lafresnaye collection of the Boston Society of Natural 

 History, (The Auk, April, 1887, p. 165.) 



' D. bryanti having been described as a variety of D. vieilloti, and then raised to specific rank, ha-s been more latidy 

 split into two varieties, and that one which is found on the west coast of Mexico, and al.so in Lower California, has been 

 named castaneiapK, from the rich chestnut head. It will probably turn out to be identical with vieilloti proper. 



