NOTES. 



Pp. 34-39- Di'- C. H. Merriam, in a very important recent 

 publication (U. S. Depart, of Agriculture, North American 

 Fauna No. 3, Sept. 11, 1890), concludes that the so-called 

 Eastern, Central and Western Provinces of the United States, 

 hitherto accepted by naturalists, must be abandoned and that 

 there are but two primary life areas in extra-tropical North 

 America whicli he terms the Boreal and the Sonoran Provinces. 



The Austro-riparian division is to be regarded as one of the 

 six sub-regions of the Sonoran Province. "The Carolinian 

 Fauna is a northward extension of the Austro-riparian, while the 

 Alleghanian is neutral ground between the latter and the south- 

 ernmost division of the Boreal Province (the Canadian Fauna)." 



P. 48. The King Eider has lately been taken at Brunswick, 

 Ga., by Mr. W. W. Worthington (The Auk, Vol. VII, p. 2S9). 



P. 74' A specimen of yunco hy emails shiifcldtl was taken 

 near Laurel, Md., April 38, 1890, by Mr. A. W. Ridgway. 

 (The Auk, Vol. VII, p. 3S9). 



