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(2.) Passer nwntanus, the Europeau tree sparrcw. 

 (3.) Alauda arvensis, the sky hirk of Europe ; and 

 (•4.) Coturnix commnnis^ the Europeau quail. * 



Birds added to the American fauna in 1881. 



Aestrelata gularis (Peale). Brewster: Critical notes on a Petrel uew 

 to North America. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 1881, p. 91. From INIount 

 Morris, Livingston County, New York. 



Fwffinus laililii horealis. Cory. Description of a new species of the fam- 

 ily Procellaridoe. B. N. 0. C, 1881, p. 81. From Chatham Island, Cape 

 Cod, Massachusetts. 



FuUgula rufina, Steph. Eidgway : On a duck new to the North Amer- 

 ican fauna. Proc. U. S. Kat. Mus., Apr., 1881, p. 22-21. From -'Fulton 

 Market, New York City." 



Fulicaatra, Linn. Eidgw., 1. c. From Greenland. 



Eury norliynchus pyqccmus (Linn.) Eidgw. Catal., 1881. Bull. U. S. N. 

 M., N^o. 21, p. 85. From Arctic coast of Alaska. 



Callipepla squamata pallida. Id.ihid., p. 72. From Eio San Pedro, 

 Arizona. 



Buteo brachyurus, Vieill. Eidgway : On a tropical American hawk 

 to be added to the North American fiiuna. B. N. 0. C, 1881, p. 207, 

 From Palatka, East Florida. 



Buteo fuliginosus, Sclater. Eidgw., 1. c, p. 212. From Oyster Bay, 

 Florida. (" Melanistic phase of B. brachyurus ?") 



Antrostomus vociferus arizoncc. Brewster : Notes on some birds from 

 Arizona and New Mexico, with a descrii)tion of a supposed new Whip- 

 poor-will. B. N. 0. G. 1881, p. 09. From Chiracahua Mountains, Arizona. 



Myiarclms Gooperi (Kaup.). Brewster: Additions to the avifauna 

 of the United States. B. N. 0. 0., 1881, p. 252. From Camp Lowell, 

 Southern Arizona. 



PoUoptila californica. Brewster : On the affinities of certain Poliop- 

 tilfe, with a description of a new species. B. JV". 0. G., 1881, p. 103. 

 From Eiverside, Sau Bernardino Co., California= " 29. P. melanura Lawr." 

 Eidw. catalog., 1880, Pr. U. S. N. M., 1880, p. 1G8. (Nee Lawr.), 



The following species, included in Mr. Eidg way's list 1881, for the first 

 time definitely ascertained to have been taken within the limits of 

 United States : 



Parus meridianalis, Sel. Brewster, 1. c. From Chiriicahna Mount- 

 ains, Southern Arizona. 



Myiarvhtis Lawrcncei (Gir.). Brewster, 1. c. From Santa Eita Mount- 

 ains, Southern Arizona. 



Gharacteristics of the Archccopterygidcc. 



Prof. O. C. Marsh embraced the opportunity, during a visit to Europe 

 in 1881, of examining the remains of the remarkable Jurassic ArcJiTop- 



