Vol. XIX"| ScHMiTT, yl Summer Colony at Aiiticostt. l8l 



1902 J 



Elachura formosa {Walden). 



Troglodytes punctatiis Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, XIV, 1845, pt. 2, 

 p. 589 {nee Brehm). 



Troglodytes formosus Walden, Ibis, 1874, p. 91. 



Type locality. — Darjeeling, India. 



Geographical distribution. — ^&\ghhorhood of Darjeeling, northeastern 



India. 



The XiZ.m& punctata is untenable for this bird, being preoccupied 

 by Troglodytes pundatus Brehm/ a synonym of Olbiorchilus troglo- 

 dytes. Dr. Sharpe long ago called attention to this fact,^ but the 

 X.&xm punctata unfortunately has been adopted by some later writers. 



Elachura haplonota Baker. 



Elacliura haplonota Baker, Ibis, 1892, p. 62, pi. ii. 



Type ^frtZ/Vj.— Hungrum Peak, North Cachar Hills, India. 



Geographical distribution.— ^oxW\ Cachar Hills, northeastern India. 



Seemingly a very distinct species. 



A SUMMER COLONY AT ANTICOSTI. 



BY JOSEPH SCHMITT, M. D. 



Plate VII. 



ANTICOSTI Island, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where 1 have 

 lived for some years as medical doctor in the service of the pro- 

 prietor, Mr. Henri Menier, offers for study many very interesting 

 subjects of natural history. In respect to birds, I will now call at- 

 tention to a summer colony of sea-birds, which, while not having 

 the importance of several famous bird rocks, as those at Perce, 

 nevertheless deserves special mention. Here in a bay is Gull Cliff, 

 facing northeast, which, from May until September is the resort 



iNaturg. Europ. Vogel, I, 1823, p. 318. 

 2 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., VI, 1881, p. 279. 



