tS86.] Recent Literatioe. I2C 



Page 35S, line 18. My notes are not correctlj quoted. The bird was 

 hid in a hole or cave in the rock, and when alarmed flew out alighting on 

 San Francisco Bay- 

 Volume II, page 7. Ncttioii crecca. Also found not rarelv in Cali- 

 fornia. I gave it in the -Additions," etc., in Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 1868. 



Page 37. The Diicks shot b_v Dr. Heermann in summer in California, 

 were more probably females of some other kind than of Mareca ameri- 

 cana. as the latter has not been found breeding in the United States. 



Page 3S, line 5 from bottom, for 'Kansas' read Texas. 



Page 39, line 10 from bottom, for '1.35' read 2.35. 



Page 51, near middle and elsewhere, for 'Conalitos' read Corralitos. 



Page 87, line 21, for 'west' read coast. 



Page iiS, line 2, for 'smaller' read summer. 



Page 143. The Brown Pelican of the West Coast was fully described 

 by me as a common summer bird as far north as Shoalwater Ba\-. Lat. 47*-, 

 in P. R. R. Rep't, XII, iii, 1859, ^ut San Francisco is given here as the 

 northern limit, Dr. Brewer not quoting the Report, as in several instances. 

 The adult plumage obtained by me at San Diego does not differ from that 

 of Florida birds, but the colors of bill, pouch, etc. differed from both the 

 Florida and Lower California birds, being intermediate, and quite variable. 



Page 147 The notes on P/talacrocorax carbo do not agree with the 

 distribution given on p. 145. Nuttall gives it as a bird of the Northwest 

 Coast. 



Page 28S. In my -Additions to the Fauna of California" in 1S68, not 

 quoted, I mentioned Sterna clfgaiis as obtained in San Francisco Bay. 



Page 336. I published a notice of the occurrence of this bird in San 

 Francisco Bay (Proc. Cal. Acad. Sc. V, 415, 1875). 



Page 365, line 8. for 'gong' read gony. In line 12 is a misquotation, 

 apparently contradicting the previous part of the sentence. The birds 

 seen by me were near shore. 



Page 371, line 6 from bottom, for 'Tagei's" read "S'agers ffrom the Gei-- 

 man Jager. a hunter). 



Page 390. A blackisli species, agreeing closelvwith P. ^tricklandi^ is 

 found on the California coast in companv with P. creatopiis. and I sup- 

 posed it to be the same bird in voung plumage, just as the former is sup- 

 posed by some to be the vounger P. majur. The only one I obtained was 

 not sent to Washington, therefore is not referred to, and I saw no reason 

 to consider it new. The wing was I2:i inches long (not 12). thus a little 

 larger than in Strickland/', just as that o'i creatopiis was \ inch longer 

 than in ma/or. The four named species should probably be reduced to 

 one, and many similar combinations of species would be advantageous to 

 the study of the water-birds. 



Page 411. Mr. W. O. Emerson, of Haywards, obtained specimens this 

 vear at the Farallone Ishands, California, of the size of C. homocliroa. but 

 in plumage approaching C. melania. 



Page 424, line 18 from bottom, for -Pueblo' read Pablo. 



