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have been fortunate in adding the rare Cape May Warbler to my 
list, as well as the Nashville and Water-Thrush (noveboracensis) 
having obtained examples of all three towards the end of August, 
so that my total now stands at twenty species of these interesting 
little birds that I have found here so far. 
NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
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BY HARRY C. OBERHOLSER. 
Tuis is the first of a series of articles on the status, relationships, 
and nomenclature of various North American birds. These notes 
have been gathered during the course of many years of work, 
largely on the collections of the Biological Survey and of the 
United States National Museum, and in the identification of 
specimens for other institutions and for individuals. They are 
now presented for the benefit of ornithologists interested in the 
birds of this region. 
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Cepphus snowi Stejneger. 
A specimen of this species said to have been taken on the Kenai 
River, Alaska, on October 7, 1906, is recorded by Dr. Anton 
Reichenow in Niedieck’s “Kreuzfahrten im Beringmeer,” 1907, 
p. 250. A recent letter from Dr. Reichenow says that this speci- 
men reached the Berlin Museum in too poor a condition to be 
preserved. He says, moreover, that while the identification of the 
specimen is correct, there is considerable doubt about the proper 
labeling of the specimens in the collection made by Mr. Niedieck. 
In view of this likelihood that the labels were in some manner trans- 
posed, it seems quite inadvisable to add the species to the North 
American list on the basis of this record. 
