2 26 General Notes. \x% 



i8Si), or Foster's list of the Published Writings of George Newbold 

 Lawrence (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 40, 1892), which contains a detailed 

 list of the species named in honor of Lawrence. Seebohm (1. c, p. 24) 

 gave Tardus briinneus as a synonym of Meriila leucops, described by Tac- 

 zanowski in 1877, but the status of the name need not be considered here. 

 Ordinarily new specific names are not looked for in bibliographies, and 

 since Turdus laxvrencii has remained buried for 18 years, it seems 

 desirable to place it on record in some more conspicuous place where it 

 will be found by those who may have occasion to take up the nomencla- 

 ture of South American Thrushes. — T. S. Palmer, Washington, D. C. 



Some New Records from Central New York. — Since April, 1894, 

 when I recorded in ' The Auk ' eight new species for ' Oneida County 

 and its Immediate Vicinity,' I have been able to add four new records, 

 making the total number of species and subspecies recorded from our 

 territory 243. These four records are as follows, viz. : 



Uria lomvia. — In Christmas week, 1894, the mounted letter carrier on 

 the road between Utica and New Hartford captured one of these birds 

 alive, finding it almost helpless in the road just outside of the city. It 

 was kept alive for several days and after its death was mounted and 

 preserved. 



Mr. W. S. Johnson of Boonville has recorded two other specimens of 

 this species taken the same month in the northern part of this county 

 (Auk, Vol. XII, p. 177). 



Colinus virginianus. — During 1S94 Mr. William R. Maxon of Oneida 

 wrote me that his father had seen a Qiiail near Oneida Lake, that he 

 knew the bird well and had watched it for some time at only a short dis- 

 tance away. He also wrote me that a pair had nested on the farm of 

 Lewis Maxon in the town of Verona about twenty years ago, that one had 

 been seen at Vernon and one at Oneida Castle within a few years, and 

 that a perfectly reliable gentleman informed him that a few Bob-whites 

 were to be seen about his place every year. I then wrote to some of my 

 sportsmen friends in that neighborhood, from one of whom I received 

 the information that there was a small covey of these birds around the 

 barns of a noted shooting man i-esiding near Oneida Lake, that they were 

 quite tame and he saw them often ; but he would not shoot any of them, 

 and intended to see to it that no one else did. So I think we may safely 

 write this bird down in our list as rare, in the western part of the 

 county. 



Falco peregrinus anatum. — For years there has been a story that a 

 pair of Golden Eagles nested every year on the cliffs near the head waters 

 of the West Canada Creek, in the town of Morehouse, Hamilton County. 

 This town is mostly in the Northern Wilderness of the State and these 

 cliffs are miles from human habitation. 



In August, 1895, I visited the neighborhood but failed to see either old 

 or young birds, though mv guide assured me that he had often seen them 



