FURTHER ADDEj^DA. 



It is practically impossible to keep a faunal work like 

 the present fully " up with the times.". Since the last 

 proofs were read, the following additions to our fauna 

 have been noted : (December 1879.) 



To page 70, after Pyranga cesHva^ add: 



3. P. ludoviciana, (Wils.) Bon. " Louisiana Tana- 

 GER." Male bright yellow; back, wings and tail black; 

 head scarlet; two yellow wing-bars; $ as in ruhra^ 

 known by the wing-bars. Rocky Mountains to the 

 Pacific, accidental at Lynn, Mass. {Brewer.) 



To page 88, after Passer ella^ add: 



18. (b) CALAMOSPIZA, Bonaparte. Lark Buntings. 



1. C. bicolor, (Towns.) Bon. White- Winged Black- 

 bird. Black, with a large white wing-patch, and white 

 on quills; ? streaky, like the female Bobolink, but 

 known by the whitish wing-patch; bill stout; inner sec- 

 ondaries as long as the primaries; L. 6:^ ; W. o^\ T. 2:^. 

 Western plains, accidental in Massachusetts. 



Pao-e 154. The females of Urinator immer and 

 of some other swimming birds, lack the head markings 

 described in the text, and are dull or streaky. 



Page 155. The occurrence of Podiceps cristatus in 

 America at all, is lately denied by Dr. Brewer. 



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