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(p. 5) Turbaco; Celeus innotatus (p. 5) Jaraquiel; Bubo virginianus elutus 
(p. 6) Lorica; Pyrrhura subandina (p. 6) Jaraquiel; Hupsychortyx decoratus 
(p. 6) Calamar; from Santa Marta, Colombia: Ostinops decumanus 
melanterus (p. 3) Las Vegas; Icterus mesomelas carrikeri (p. 4) Fundacion; 
Eupsychortyx cristatus littoralis (p. 6) Mamotoco; from Bolivia: Ostinops 
sincipitalis australis (p. 3) Buenavista; Attila neorenus (p. 4) Rio Yapa- 
eanl; Microrhopias melanogastris iliaca (p. 5) Rio Pilcomayo; Xiphocolaptes 
obsoletus (p. 5) Rio Yapacani. X. major obscurus is also proposed (p. 6) 
as a substitute for X. m. satwratus Cherrie preoccupied.— W. S. 
Grinnell on the Evening Grosbeak.1— Just at the time when the 
eastern race of this erratic bird is attracting attention through the New 
England and Middle States, by a southward migration of unprecedented 
extent, Dr. Grinnell gives us the results of a prolonged study of the rela- 
tionship of the western birds which he considers are divisible into four 
geographic races instead of two, as given in Ridgway’s ‘Birds of North 
and Middle America.’ No matter how many races we may decide to 
recognize we must agree with Dr. Grinnell’s contention that the type of 
Hesperiphona vespertina montana was definitely fixed on the plate which 
accompanies the original description in ‘The History of North American 
Birds,’ and that this name belongs to the Mexican bird; Chapman’s H. v. 
mexicana becoming a pure synonym. Furthermore Dr. Grinnell finds 
that birds from the mountains of extreme southern Arizona agree with the 
Mexican race rather than with that of the Rocky Mountains, which brings 
this southern form into the limits of the A. O. U. Check-List. 
The birds from farther north — representing ‘montana’ of the Check- 
List —he divides into three races: H. v. brookst (p. 20), from British 
Columbia, type locality, Okanagan; H. v. californica (p. 20), from the 
Sierra Nevada of California north into Oregon, type locality, Crane Flat, 
Mariposa Co., Cal., and H. v. warreni (p. 210), southern Rocky Mountains 
from Colorado to northern Arizona, type locality, Colorado Springs.— 
W. S. 
Brooks’ ‘Game Birds of West Virginia’. ?— Nearly half of the fourth 
‘Biennial Report of the Forest, Game and Fish Warden of West Virginia’ 
is devoted to an account of the game birds by Mr. E. A. Brooks, consulting 
ornithologist to the warden. The eight chapters of this excellent report 
cover the subjects of forest conditions as related to game birds; hunting 
game birds; economic value of game birds; propagation; protection; and 
description of the game birds of the State. 
1The Subspecies of Hesperiphona vespertina. By Joseph Grinnell. The Condor, Vol. 
XIX, January, 1917, pp. 17-22. 
2 The Game Birds of West Virginia. By Earle A. Brooks. Fourth Biennial Report of 
the Forest, Game, and Fish Warden of West Virginia. 1915-1916. July 1, 1916. pp. 
93-160. ’ 
