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it with Emberiza Brisson, but an examination of its type and comparison 

 with typical species of Emberiza shows that it is well differentiated as a 

 generic group. It differs from Emberiza Brisson (type, by tautonymy, 

 Emberiza citrinella Linnaeus) as follows; bill slenderer, more compressed, 

 more sharply pointed, thus less conical; basal two-thirds of culmen straight 

 or even somewhat concave, instead of convex; maxillar and mandibular 

 tomia vertically not so strongly concave, thus not giving the closed com- 

 missure the somewhat open appearance that it has in typical species of 

 Emberiza; palatal surface of maxilla lacking the peculiar rounded protu- 

 berances of Emberiza; mandible more rounded (less squarish) basally; 

 gonys very long, its length much more than the height of the bill at base 

 (instead of about equal to that dimension), and not strongly ascending, 

 the gonydeal angle therefore not so prominent; tertials and tail much 

 shorter. 



The species to be included in this genus are at least the three originally 

 indicated by Cabanis, the last one of which is North American by reason 

 of its accidental occurrence on Kiska Island in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. 

 These are: 



Hypocentor aureolus (Pallas). 



Hypocentor fucatus (Pallas). 



Hypocentor rusticus (Pallas). 



Harry C. Oberholser, Washington, D. C. 



A Correction Involving Some Juncos. — An error that may be 

 explained as due to oversight, inadvertence, plain stupidity or all three 

 combined, crept into my paper on the Juncos (Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 

 XXXVIII, 1918, p. 296) and Mr. Todd has called my attention to it. 

 In placing iiisularis under mearnsi as a race, I quite forgot that the former 

 name has many years priority. Therefore the Pink-sided Juncos should 

 stand as follows: — 



Junco insularis mearnsi 



Junco insularis insularis 



Junco insularis toumsendi 



Jonathan Dwight, M. D. New York City. 



An Additional Record of Ammodramus savannarum bimaculutus 

 in Eastern Washington. — Although the breeding range of the Western 

 Grasshopper Sparrow is stated by the Check List (A. O. U. Check-List 

 of North American Birds, 1910, p. 257) to embrace " Transition and 

 Austral zones from southeastern British Columbia, northwestern Mon- 

 tana, and southern Minnesota south to southern California and southern 

 Texas," it appears that only one actual record of occurrence in eastern 

 Washington has been published to date. Dr. Lee R. Dice took two adult 

 males in breeding plumage in a wheat field in the Touchet Valley, near 

 Prescott, Walla Walla County, on June 16, 1908 (Auk, Vol. XXVII, 1910, 

 p. 217). 



