1890.] General Notes. 2*5 



mentioned alive, nor its eggs. I only collected in Arizona at Fort 

 Mojave, about a mile from the California side of the River Colorado, and 

 therefore considered the birds collected as without doubt belonging to the 

 California!) avifauna. My MS. report was intended to relate only 

 to birds belonging to California, as determined on good authority, though 

 I included a few of the species found at Fort Mojave, which I had not 

 actually obtained west of the river. But among them was not the P- /■ 

 mesolencus, as I found none. In the preface to the 'Ornithology of Cali" 

 fornia' it is stated that the plan was afterwards changed so as to include 

 all land birds of the west slope of the United States, and Prof. Baird, 

 who advised this, in editing the volume added all then known in the re- 

 gion, besides a few more, 'on a venture' or suspicion that they might at 

 some future time be found there. His name was generally added, but 

 not always, and thus I am quoted for what I did not write, and had 

 no opportunity to prevent or correct (see Proc. Cal. Acad. Sc, VI., 

 189, 1875). As Prof. Baird had no eggs of the species mentioned he 

 must have judged from those of P. aberti. Besides the 36 species 

 which have "(Baird)" as authority at the end, all of which were then 

 unknown as Californian, the following are included by him as editor, 

 though for some unknown reason he did not add his name: 



1. Harporhynchus cinereus, Lower California. 



2. Campylorhynchus affinis, " " 



3. Helminthophaga Virginia?. 



4. Dendroeca chrysopareia. 



5. Vireo atricapillus. 



6. Vireo belli. Given by me in 186a as found in California, for var. 



pusillus. 



7. Vireo vicinior. 



8. Pyranga hepatica. 



9. Plectrophanes nivalis. 



:o. Passerculus guttatus, Lower California. 



11. Ammodramus samuelis. Now known as a variety of Melospiza fas- 



cia ta. 



12. Peucsea cassini. 



13. Calamospiza bicolor. 



14. Cyanospiza versicolor Lower California. 



15. Pyrrhuloxia sinuata " " 



16. Cardinalis igneus " " 



17. Pipilo mesoleucus. 



18. Pipilo albigula. Lower California. 



19. Cyanura macrolopha. 



20. Contopus pertinax. Lower California. 



21. Atthis heloisae " " 



22. Centurus aurifrons. 



23. Melanerpes formicivorus angustifrons. Lower California. 



24. Nyctea nivea. 



25. Surnia ulula. 



