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RiDGWAY, Egbert. Notes on some of the birds observed near Wheat- 

 land, Knox County, Indiana, in the spring of 1881. 



(Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 1, 1882, Vll, pp., 15-23.) 



This paper presents the chief results of a collecting trip to the locality in 

 question, in the interest of the National Museum. 



On the generic name Schninthophaga. 



(Bull. Nutt. Orn, Club, 1, 1882, vii, pp. 53-54.) 



This paper calls attention to the necessity (if the rules of nomenclature be 

 strictly adhered to) of suppressing this name as used for a North American 

 genus of warblers, it having been applied forty-seven years previously to an 

 entirely dissimilar European group, including the nightingale and redbreast. 

 In order to render the change as slight as possible, the name Helminthophila 

 is proposed. 



The great black-backed gull [Larus marinus), from a new 



locality. 



(Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 1, 1882, vli, p. 60.) 



The known range of this species has been greatly extended by specimens 

 from Herald Island, in the Arctic Ocean, north of Bering Strait, and Port 

 Clarence, on the Atlantic side of the same strait, collected by Captain Hooper, 

 U. S. Cutter "Corwin," and Dr. T. H. Bean, curator Department of Fishes, 

 U. S. National Museum. The nearest previously recorded locality was Japan. 



Additions to the catalogue of North American birds. 



(Bull. Nutt Orn. Club, 1, 1882, vii, p. 61.) 



The additions (to the catalogue published by the National Museum in 1881) 

 are Nos. 440*, Buteo ftdiginosus Scl. (little black hawk); 440**, B. hrachyurus 

 Vieill. (short-tailed hawk, white-fronted Hawk) ; 708, Puffinus iorealis Cory 

 (northern shearwater); and 717*, (Estrelata gularis Peale (Peale's petrel). 

 The numbers prefixed indicate their position as interpolated in the catalogue 

 in question. 



• Distribution of the fish crow ( Corvus ossifragus). 

 (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 4, 1882, vii, p. 250.) 



This supposed strictly littoral species found among the mountains of Vir- 

 ginia, at least sixty miles from the nearest tide-water. 



- Birds new to or rare in the District of Columbia. 



(Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 4, 1882, vii, p. 253.) 



The species given, verified by specimens in the National Museum collection, 

 are the following: ? Bewick's wren (Thryomanens hewicki)', yellow-throated 

 warbler (Dendroeca dominiea) ; loggerhead shrike (iamiMS ludovicianus); and 

 sharp-tailed finch {Ammodromus caudacutus). 



- List of additions to the catalogue of North American birds. 



(Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 4, 1882, vir, pp. 257,258.) 



This list is supplementary to that published in the January number of the 

 same journal (No. 15), and includes subsequent additions, given "for the 

 benefit of those who, for various reasons, are not able to keep the run of all 

 the new discoveries." There are twenty -two species, as follows: 2a, Hylo- 

 cichlafusceseens salicicola Kidgw. (Willow thrush) 3a. H. alieice hicknelU Ridgw. 

 (Bicknell's thrush). 35a, Chamcea fasciata henshawi Ridgw. (Pallid ground, tit). 

 38a, Lophophanes inornatus griseus Ridgw. (Gray titmouse). 556, Certhiafamili 

 ariamontana Ridgw. (Rocky Mountain creeper). 596, Catherpes mexicanua punctu- 



