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found in fall were shot with much less difliculty than the spring birds, 

 perhaps because they were young. I do not l^now whether they breed 

 here. 



744G0 cf ad. 



Stockton . 



June 3,1878 



218. .SIchmopIiorus clarki, (L.iwr.). — CJurk's Gre}>€. 



[There are no notes concerning this species. — E. E.] 



Stockton 



do. 



do. 



Apr.26,?1878 

 Oct. 3, 1878 

 •^Sept. 24, 1878 



219. Dytes auritus, 3. californicus, (Lawr.). — American Eared Grebe. 



The bird shot at Murphy's and the one shot at Stockton are all I have 

 seen of this species in two years. 



73846 

 74461 



— ad. 



d ad. 



Mnrphy's. 

 Stockton.. 



Apr. 16, 1877 

 May 9,1878 



■ Ilia and evelids red.' 

 Do. ' 



220. Podilymbus podiceps, (Linn.). — niicJc-hilled Grebe. 



The specimen sent was the only one seen at Mui-phy's in the spring of 

 1877. It was apparently only a visitant. 1 have seen them in the small 

 lakes near the summit in fall,, and they are not rare in the sloughs in 

 the valleys in winter. 



73817 



— ad. Murphy's Spring, 1877 



CATAliOCilJE OF A COIilLGCTIOIV OF BIROS OBTAIIVBD IIV OUADE- 

 1.0UPE: FOR Tills SiniTIli^OIViAIV IIVi^TITDTlON, BIT MR. FREO. A. 

 OBFR. 



By GEOROX: IV. 1.AWRENCE. 



Mr. Ober collected in Guadeloupe during August and September, 

 1878, and sent to the Smithsonian 132 specimens of birds : in his notes 

 he enumerates 45 species. 



Early in October he engaged his passage to New York, and went on 

 board the vessel, but she was detained in port for over two weeks by 

 adverse winds, and did not arrive here until November 13. Mr. Ober 

 left the United States in December, 1877, making an absence of nearly 

 two years. The result of his explorations has proved to be quite as 

 satisfactory as was expected. 



While in Guadeloupe, Mr. Belangergave himacopy of Dr.L'Herminier's 

 catalogue of the birds observed in Guadeloupe ; it enumerates 135 spe- 



* " Bill bright yellow, except ridge; space before eye white ; ridge of bill brown ; 

 iris orange. Length, 24.00." 



Proc. ISTat. Mus. 78 29 April 33, 1 879. 



