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"possible that its range mav extend to Ant/'costi., or even to Labrador,^' 

 he believing that many of the migrants of this species he saw at the Mag- 

 dalens came from further north. — J. A. Allen, Am. Mks. Nat. Hist., 

 Netv Tork City. 



Bonasa umbellus in the Alpine Region of South Carolina. — The more 

 recent writers on South Carolinian ornithology have regarded the occur- 

 rence of the Ruffed Grouse in the State as an open question. While on 

 an ornithological tour to the mountainous portions of Pickens County, 

 during the past summer, I had a good opportunity to learn something of 

 its local abundance and distribution. About Mt. Pinnacle (the highest 

 point in the State, 3,436 feet) and Table Rock (3,000 feet), I fonnd it a 

 common bird, ranging from the valleys of the Saluda and Oolenoe up the 

 mountain sides to their summits. Later in the season I traced the 'Pheas- 

 ant' to the King's Mountain chain (a part of which lies in York County), 

 w^here, although not common, it is well known to everyone. Several years 

 ago I saw a mounted specimen in the collection of the late Dr. Marshall 

 of Greenville, which was said to have been taken in that county. From 

 the foregoing, it is reasonable to infer that the habitat of the Ruffed 

 Grouse in South Carolina is co-extensive with the Alpine region of the 

 northwestern border counties — a wedge-shaped area, extending from 

 King's Mountain on the east to the Georgia line on the west, having a 

 length of about one hundred and fourteen miles, and a breadth of from 

 eight to twenty-one miles. — Leverett M. Loomis, Chester, S. C. 



The Type Specimen of Colinus ridgwayi. — In my recent paper on this 

 species (Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol.1, No. 7, p. 276) I referred to 

 the original type specimen of the Masked Bob-white (^Colinus ridgtvayi) 

 as being in the collection of Mr. F. Stephens. I was subsequently in- 

 formed that it had been sent to the British Mi*seum, and on the strength 

 of this information added an erratum to this effect. I have now learned 

 that the specimen is not in the collection of the British Museum but in 

 that of Mr. G. Frean Morcom, of Chicago, who recently' purchased it of 

 Mr. Stephens. — J. A. Allen, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Nczv Tork City. 



A Red-headed Black Vulture. — During iny first visit to Charleston, 

 South Carolina, in Maj', 1SS3, I was one day watching the Black Vultures 

 which, al certain hours, congregated by hundreds in the streets and on the 

 house tops about the city market, when my attention was attracted to one 

 that differed from all others of its kind that I had hitherto seen in having 

 the entire bill yellow and the bare skin of the head and neck uniformly 

 red, similar to, but of a duller tint than, the head of Cathartcs aura. That 

 the bird was not a Turkey Buzzard but, on the contrary, either a Black 

 Vulture or something very near it, was evident from its flight and the shape 

 of the wings and tail. I suspected that it might be a hybrid, but there was 

 no way of securing the specimen at the time and I never saw it again. 



Through Mr. Wayne's kindness, however, I have just come into posses- 



