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St. Paul's Island, Bering Sea. Four subspecies of Shore-Larks are 

 added, but with the exception of one, viz. Otocoris cdpestris insularis. 

 Towns., which is resident in the islands of San Nicolas, San Clemente, 

 Santa Cruz, and Santa llosa. Southern California, these are included 

 in the Brit. Mus. Cat. of Birds (vol. xiii.). Of the "numerous species 

 and subspecies added to the North-American list onl}' one species, 

 Megascops hastatus (p. 593), from the vicinity of Mazatlan and 

 possibh' from Lower California, and one subspecies, Cardinalis 

 cardinalis jioridanus (p. 606), from Florida, are described as new ; 

 but a considerable number are not included in the ' Catalogue of 

 Birds in the British Museum," besides those alreadj' mentioned, viz. : — 

 Tympanuchus americanus Attwateri (Bendire, 'Forest and Stream,' 

 xi. no. 20, p. 425, 1893) ; Megascops asio cineraceus (Ridgway, 

 'Auk,' xii. p. 390, 18!^'5), from North-western Mexico and con- 

 tiguous portion of the U. S. ; Megascops asio Ailceni (Brewer, ' Auk/ 

 viii. p. 390, 1895), from the eastern foothills of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains in Colorado and New Mexico ; Megascops asio Macfarlanei 

 (Brewster, torn. cit. p. 140), from between the eastern slope of the 

 Cascade Mountains and the western slope of the Rocky Mountains 

 in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana ; Megascops asio satu- 

 ratus (Brewster, torn. cit. p. 141), from the shores and islands of 

 Puget Sound &c., north to Vancouver Island, New Westminster, and 

 Comax, south along the coast to Portland, Oregon ; Megascops 

 Jlammeolus idaJioensis (Merriam, N.-Am. Fauna, no, 5, p. 96, pi. i., 

 1891), from the mountains of Idaho ; Glaucidiuni Hoskinsii (Brew- 

 ster, 'Auk,' V. p. 136, 1888), from the mountains of southern 

 Lower California ; Melanerpes formicivorus aculeatus (Mearns, ' Auk,' 

 vii. p. 249, 1890), from Western Texas to Arizona, and south 

 through mountainous parts of North-west Mexico ; Contopus 

 JUchardsonii p>eninsulce (Brewster, 'Auk,' viii. p. 144,1891), from 

 southern Lower California : Empidonax cinentius (Brewster, ' Auk,' 

 v. p. 90, 1888), from Lower California and North-western Mexico, 

 south to Mazatlan ; Empidonax' griseus (Brewster, ' Auk,' vi. p. 87, 

 1889), from Lower California and Western and Central Mexico, 

 Southern Arizona ; Aphelocoma califotmica. ohscura (Anthony, Proc. 

 Cal. Ac. Sci. 2nd ser. ii. p. 75, 1889), from the San Pedro Mountains, 

 Lower California ; Spimis tristis pallidus (Mearns, ' Auk,' vii. p. 244, 

 1890), from Arizona ; Pooco'tes gramineus affinis (Miller, ' Auk,' v. 

 p. 404, 1888), from Western Oregon; Ammoclrarnus Hensloivii 

 occidentalis (Brewster, 'Auk,' viii. p. 145, 1891), from Dakota; 

 Ammodramus caudacutus suhvirgatus (Dwight, ' Auk,' iv. p. 233, 

 1887), from the marshes of southern New Brunswick, Prince 

 Edward Island, and probably Nova Scotia, and southward in migra- 

 tion along the Atlantic coast to South Carolina ; Ammodramus 

 maritimus peninsidcf. (Allen, ' Auk,' v. p. 284, 1888), from the west 

 coast of Florida ; Ammodramus maritimtis Sennettii (Allen, ' Auk,' 

 v. p. 286, 1888), from the coast of Texas ; Jmico hyemalis Thurberi 

 (Anthony, 'Zoe,' i. p. 238, 1890), from the mountains of California; 

 Junco hyemalis pinosus (Loomis, ' Auk,' x. p. 47, 1893), from the 



