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and subsequently on twenty-three different occasions. He would appar- 

 ently disappear from the park for short intervals, once for a period of two 

 weeks, as I was on the watch for him and visited the park almost daily 

 without seeing him. On December 19 he came to me for the first time 

 for peanuts, and after that always came to my hand freely and without 

 fear. On May 10, 1905, I saw a female of the same species with him, 

 and also several other Brown Thrashers. As this was the last time I saw 

 him, he probably accompanied the other Brown Thrashers when they 

 left the park. — Lillian W. Lewis, New York City. 



An addition to the Avifauna of Cuba. — On October 16, 1903, at the 

 Morro Castle, Santiago, Cuba, I took a specimen of Sax/cola ceuai/t/ie 

 leucorhoa (Gmel.). It was a female in good condition. It was feeding 

 in the scanty grass in company with a large straggling flock of Palm 

 Warblers.— Wirt Robinson, dipt. U. S. A., Ft. Totten, N. Y. 



Note on Lagopus leucurus and Leucosticte australis. — In Volume V, 

 Zoology of the Wheeler Survey, published in 1S75, mention is made of 

 two specimens of Leucosticte australis collected by C. E. Aiken on Mount 

 Blanco, New Mexico, Sept. 3, 1S74, with the remark that "this is perhaps 

 near the limit of its southward range." 



On page 439 ot the same volume are recorded six specimens of Lago- 

 pus leucurus collected by Aiken on Mount Blaine, Colorado, Sept. 3, 1874. 

 As the two localities are several hundred miles apart, and as the speci- 

 mens of the two species are recorded as having been collected on the 

 same day by the same collector (who, moreover, never visited Mount 

 Blanco), it is evident that the records involve a mistake. Inquiry discloses 

 the fact that they involve two mistakes. 



A letter recently at hand from Mr. Aiken states that the specimens of 

 both Leucosticte and Lagopus were secured by him on the mountain in 

 southern Colorado known upon present maps as "Summit Peak." At 

 the time of his visit, however, no name for the peak was known to Mr. 

 Aiken, but he was informed that it was to receive the name of Mount 

 Blaine. Hence the name of the latter in the record of the ptarmigan and 

 on the labels of the specimens. The name Mount Blaine was not be- 

 stowed by the Wheeler Survey upon the "Summit Peak," but subse- 

 quently was given to a high mountain in Ouray County which appears 

 on the Hayden and other maps as Mount Sneffels. How the specimens 

 of L. australis came to be wrongly labeled Mount Blanco, New Mexico, 

 and so recorded in the volume above mentioned, will probably never be 

 known; nor does it much matter. 



It is important that Summit Peak be recorded as the true locality of 

 Aiken's specimens of Leucosticte australis and Lagopus leucurus, since 

 the latter have been taken as the types of L^agopus leucurus altipetens 

 (Auk, XVIII, p. 180, 1901) and credited to Mount Blaine ; while there is 



