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does not exist in the southern jjarts of New York or Pennsylvania. 

 DeKay states tbat it is found in tlie northern parts of Virginia and Ken- 

 tucky. We, however, sought for it without success in the mountains of 

 Vu'ginia, and coukl never hear of its existence in Kentucky." 



Professor Baird states* that the species is found as far south as 

 Northern Pennsylvania in some localities, in which State it is not rare 

 even now. 



Mr. J. A. Allen, the most recent writer on the porcupines, remarks,! 

 that Professor Shalei' had failed to hear of the species in Kentucky and 

 Virginia. He was informed by Dr. J. M. Wheaton that a few porcu- 

 pines stdl survive in Clark, Champaign, and Koss Counties, Ohio, and 

 that it was common ten years since in Putnam County ; and by Mr. E. 

 Vi. Nelson that the species was formerly rather common, though never 

 abundant, in all of the wooded region north of the Ohio Eiver, but that 

 it is not now found (west of Ohio) south of the forests of Northern Wis- 

 consin and Northern Michigan. 



December 12, 1878. 



CATAliOCUK OF TH£ BIRDS OF CiBi::VADA, FROITI A COIil^ECTIOIV 

 MADE BV MR. FREB. A. OBEB FOR TUB SmiTHlSOIVIAIV IIVSTITU. 

 TION, IIVCL<FDi:>0 OTHERS SEEN BV IlIITI, BUT IVOT OBTAIIVED. 



By GEORO£ N. LA^I^R£]\C£. 



In my Catalogue of the Birds of St. Vincent, I stated that Mr. Ober 

 expected to leave that island for Grenada on the 29th of February. He 

 must have left about that time, as some of his notes from Grenada are 

 dated early in March. His collection from there was received at the 

 Smithsonian Institution on the 22d of May, and sent to me a few days 

 after. It consists of but 66 specimens. 



In the following communication from Mr. Ober, he gives the geograph- 

 ical position of the island, with other matters of interest. 



Under most of the species found there, are his notes of their 

 habits, etc. 



His communications are marked with inverted commas. 



"Grenada, the southernmost of the volcanic islands, lies just north 

 of the 12th degree of latitude north of the equator, that parallel just 

 touching its southern point. 



" It is about 18i miles in length, Irom N. N. E. to S. S. W., and 7^ 

 miles in breadth. 



" From Kingston, the i^rincipal town in St. Vincent, to St. Georges, 

 that of Grenada, the distance is 75 miles ; from the southern end of St. 

 Vincent to the northern point of Grenada the distance is 60 miles j the 

 intervening space being occupied by the Grenadines. 



* Mammals of North America, 1859, p. 568. 



tMouograplis of North American Rodentiii, liy ElhoU Cones and Joel Asaph AUen, 

 1877, p. 393. 



