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Mailliard on the Redwings of California.'— The old question of the 

 relationship of the Agelaius giibemator group to the A. phoeniceus group 

 of Redwinged Blackbirds is again here discussed by Mr. Joseph Mailliard, 

 and the conclusion reached that "gubernator is directly connected with 

 phoeniceus and that A. gubernator californicus is rightly A. phoeniceus 

 calif or nicus." This conclusion is based on a detailed study of a large 

 amount of material from different parts of California, including a large 

 series of specimens collected from a breeding colony in Stanislaus County. 

 His paper is illustrated with photographs to show the variation in the 

 amount of streaking on the ventral surface of a series of females, and the 

 amount of black tipjung the middle wing coverts of males, and by an ex- 

 tensive table of measurements of A. gubernator californicus and A. phoeni- 

 ceus neutralis; showing that neither size nor other alleged characters suffice 

 sharply to separate these two forms, and that their real relationship is that 

 of subspecies of A. phoeniceus. The view here expressed is in harmony with 

 that held by Coues in 1872 to 1884, and by Ridgway in 1874 to 1880. and 

 by other good authorities of that period, and Mr. Mailliard's new evidence 

 seems to point strongly to the conclusion that these ' lumpers ' of earlier 

 days were, at least in this instance, not far from right in their treatment 

 of these forms. — J. A. A. 



Clark on Birds Collected or Observed in the North Pacific Ocean and 

 adjacent Seas.- — During the cruise of the United States Fisheries Steamer 

 'Albatross,' in the North Pacific Ocean and in the Bering, Okhotsk, and 

 Japan Seas and adjoining waters, for the investigation of fish and marine 

 invertebrates, Dr. Clark, the author of the present report on the birds col- 

 lected or observed on the cruise, was able, in addition to his work on fishes 

 and marine invertebrates as the representative of the Fisheries Bureau, 

 to devote considerable attention to the birds met with. In addition to 

 the 180 specimens brought home as skins, many more were studied in the 

 flesh or observed in life. The notes and the specimens taken during the 

 trip form the basis of the present report, which comprises notes on about 

 175 species, nearly equally divided between water birds and land birds. 

 Observations began with the departure of the 'Albatross,' May 3, from 

 San Francisco, and were continued until the steamer again dropped anchor 

 at San Francisco, December 10. 



The author was able to spend a day or two on shore at Dockton, Wash- 



1 The Status of the California Bi-colored Blackbird. By Joseph Mailliard. Con- 

 dor, March, 1910, pp. 63-70, figs. 22, 23, from photographs by the author. 



2 The Birds collected and observed during the Cruise of the United States Fisher- 

 ies Steamer "Albatross" in the North Pacific Ocean, and in the Bering, Okhotsk, 

 Japan, and Eastern Seas, from April to December, 1906. By Austin Hobart Clark, 

 Assistant Curator, Division of Marine Invertebrates, U. S. National Museum. 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XXXVIII, No. 1727, pp. 25-74. Published April 30, 

 1910. 



