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A Correction. — In ' The Auk ' Vol. XXVI, Jan., 1909, p. 9, under 

 the heading of ' Sonio Birds of Baker Co., Oregon ' the record of Cerlhia 

 familiari8 montanus should read Cerlhia familiaris zeloles. Since making 

 the list three years ago more specimens have been taken and a skin recently 

 sent to the Biological Survey was identified by Mr. IT. C. Oberholser as 

 C. /. zelotes. — Stanley G. Jkwett, Portland, Oregon. 



An Item for Bibliographers. — A paper dealing with American birds, 

 which is seldom or never referred to is the following: Relation succincte 

 d'un voyage fait aux bords dc l'Oostanaula en G6orgie, Etats-Unis, 1 par 

 Julien Deby. 



All of the matter relating to birds is included in the following extract: 

 " I am unable to describe in detail the pleasures of a search for Unios along 

 the flowery banks of the Oostanaula, the pleasing Indian name of which 

 means the great waters coming from the west. 



" The exhilarating sunshine of this delightful clime; the sky of azure blue,. 

 rarely flecked with clouds; the thousands of turtles grouped upon every old 

 log and rock that overhangs the water; the Kingfisher (Alcedo alcyon), with 

 piercing cry, which constantly crosses from bank to bank, and perches 

 upon some dead or denuded branch, where it watches for its aquatic prey; 

 the palmipeds which jump into the air, frightened by the appearance of a. 

 boat and boatman; the buzzards (Calharlcs alratus el aura), those vultures^ 

 of the new world which soar overhead in lazy circlings, on the watch for 

 some dead animal; all these new experiences make an ineffaceable impres- 

 sion upon the naturalist. 



" The bushes and trees teem with life; birds of bright plumage abound 

 everywhere; the mockingbird, the nightingale of America, enchants us with 

 its sweet notes ..." 



This effusion which might well be mistaken for a description of Paradise, 

 while a good advertisement for Georgia, was written, we must conclude, 

 in retrospect, when distance lent enchantment to the view. Upon what 

 other supposition are we to account for the author's failure to mention the 

 mosquitos, ticks and redbugs, the deer flies, fleas and bedbugs, those satel- 

 lites which oft attend travellers in Dixie, to journey's end. — W. L. 

 McAtee, Washington, D. C. 



>Hul. de la Soc. Malacologique de Belgique XII. 1877, pp. XXI-XXV. Sepa- 

 rates paged 1-7. The word voyage in title replaced by the word excursion. 

 Bruxelles, 1877. 



