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a list of 73 species of birds which frequent tlie lakes and 

 coast of Louisiana ; while AJr. \V. Palmer records the capture 

 in Washington City, after the great gale in August 1893, of 

 two examples of Ocecmodroma cryptoleucura, originally sup- 

 posed to he Leaches Petrel. Mr. Joseph Grinnell describes 

 P?/y?7oc/ewf/</6',sp.n., from Clemente Island, California; Mr. C. 

 Oberholscr characterizes Empidonux instdicola, sp, n., from 

 Santa Barbara ; while Mr. F. M. Cliapmau's 3 new subspecies 

 from Arizona and Mexico may be left for the Recorder of 

 "Aves^' to mention. In the General Notes, Nomenclature 

 comes on again. Dr. J. A. Allen says that the proper generic 

 name for the Loons (Divers) is Gavia, and that the name 

 Urinatoridffi, adopted as a family name in the very last edition 

 of the A.O.U. Check-List, should be changed to Gaviidae. 

 On the other hand, Dr. Coues speaks of Gavia as a '^derelict 

 term '' adopted by the A.O.U., " on the strength of Dr. Stej- 

 reger's misrepresentations,^^ fur the Ivory Gull {PagopJiila 

 ebzirnea). We cannot venture to epitomize his remarks 

 upon the misuse of Haliplana in the A.O.U. List, instead of 

 Onychoprion ; nor can we follow him in his observations 

 upon the names adopted for some of theProcellariidse; suffice 

 it to say that he gives a good shaking to the publication 

 which bears as its motto : — " Zoological Komenclature is a 

 means, not an end, of Zoological Science." Nevertheless, on 

 p. 402 we find " Gavia adamsi " (our Colymbus adamsi) over 

 the name of Dr. Coues, so that concord has been attained, 

 ai d a haven has been found for the " derelict.^' 



In the October number the frontispiece illustrates a paper 

 by Mr. C. W. Richmond, " The Western Field-Sparrow 

 [Spizella pusilla arenacea) " ; and this is followed by the first 

 instalment of Notes on the birds of Fort Sherman, Idaho, by 

 Surgeon J. C. Merrill, of the U.S. Army. A list by Mr. W. 

 H. Phelps of 140 species observed in Venezuela, from Cumana 

 almost to the Orinoco lowlands, is supplemented by notes 

 from Mr. F. M. Ch:i[)man, who describes as new species 

 Elainea albiventris and Sittasomus phelpsi. Passing over 

 three papers, each containing a description of a subspecies, 

 we may notice a short paper by Mr. Ernest Seton Thompson 



