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[Tringa mhiuta) for its type — a species not known in America, 

 but there represented by Tringa wilsoni. At the head of the 

 second subgenus {Heteropygia) stands the Tringa bonapartii, a 

 species also known to British ornithologists as a straggler, and 

 commonly, but incorrectly, called Tringa schinzii. We may 

 remark here, that though ]\Ir. Coues has carried the principle of 

 subdivision to its utmost development, he has wisely abstained 

 from using his new term Heteropygia as a generic title. 

 Mr. Coues's new species is Actodromas bairdii, hitherto con- 

 founded with A. bonapartii, but really belonging to the first sec- 

 tion of the genus, and to be placed between A. minutella [Tringa 

 pusilla, Wilson) and A. maculata. Specimens of this bird have 

 been obtained in Nebraska, and also in the vicinity of Great 

 Slave Lake. Mr. Coues also considers the Dunlin of America 

 distinct from that of Europe, and, following Mr. Cassin, calls it 

 Pelidna americana. i\Ir. Coues is evidently a hard-working and 

 conscientious investigator, and we have little doubt that the 

 results he has arrived at may be relied upon. 



A second paper by the same author, which will be found a 

 few pages later in the ' Proceedings,^ is entitled " Notes on the 

 Ornithology of Labrador,^' and gives an account of his researches 

 during an expedition in charge of J. W. Dodge, Esq., which 

 visited the coast of Labrador in the summer of 1860, in order 

 to procure for the Smithsonian Institution specimens of the 

 birds to be found there, with their nests and eggs. 



" The point reached," Mr. Coues tells us, "was Sloop Harbour, 

 a few miles south of Little Mecattina, where we collected most of 

 the eggs procured during the voyage. Here the Somateria moU 

 lissima and the Utamania torda were the most abundant and cha- 

 racteristic birds, while the Larus argentatus, Uriagrylle, and Mer- 

 gus serrator were also very numerous, all breeding oq the islands 

 in the vicinity. On the 6th of July the vessel left Sloop Harbour, 

 and passing the Murre Rocks, where the Urialomvio was breed- 

 ing in immense numbers, proceeded directly to Esquimaux Bay, 

 where the greater part oi the summer was spent. Here were 

 collected most of the land birds procured; among them the new 

 ^giothus fuscescens, Zonotrichia leucophrys, and Antkus ludovi- 

 cianus were verv abundant : and Pinicola canadensis and Tiirdu's 



