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large and ancient Indian e< midden " on the coast of Florida. 

 The birds to which these bones belonged may possibly have 

 been captured some distance to the northward ; but, in any 

 case, this discovery is a strong confirmation of the accu- 

 racy of Catesby's statement (1731-43) that the " Penguin" 

 was found in winter off Carolina. Mr. Austin H. Clarke 

 gives a list of 57 species and subspecies of birds obtained on 

 Margarita Island, Venezuela, where Capt. Wirt Robinson 

 found 73 during a longer visit in 1895. The unusual 

 abundance of the Snowy Owl in Canada and New England 

 during the winter of 1901-02 forms the subject of a paper by 

 Mr. Ruthven Deane, and it would appear that exceptionally 

 large flights of this bird occur at intervals of ten or fifteen 

 years: near Belle Isle Strait the fishermen had " been living 

 on them," and outside Toronto many had been taken or shot 

 " while feeding on dead horses or cattle." Among the general 

 notes are records of our Old-World Wigeon in Michigan 

 and an account of the destruction of Phalaropus fulicarius 

 on migration by striking a lighthouse in North Carolina. 

 The eleventh Supplement to the American Ornithologists' 

 Union Check-list of North-American Birds must be studied 

 by the systematist, and the writer of this review may be 

 pardoned an expression of satisfaction at noticing the 

 elimination of Lams argentatus smithsonianus — thanks to the 

 broad views of Prof. J. A. Allen and others. 



In the October part, Mr. B. S. Bowdish gives the first 

 portion of a list of the birds of Porto Rico, which he began 

 to study in 1898. Mr. Robert E. Snodgrass has a rather 

 long (15 pp.) paper on the genus Geospiza of the Galapagos, 

 the gist of which is that there is no correlation between the 

 food and the size of the bill, and that an explanation of the 

 variation of the Geospizine bill must be sought elsewhere. 

 Mr. E. W. Nelson's " Nomenclature and Validity of certain 

 North-American Galliuaj" brings us to contentious matter 

 between him and Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, and, inasmuch as the 

 remarks of the latter are appearing in our pages, we abstain 

 from offering an opinion, but reference may be made to 

 "Correspondence " in ' The Auk,' p. 119. Mr. W. A. Bryan's 



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