.>- Correspondence [j lul 



Cheok-Lisl the range of Pmtfie&tes cinctus is given in the Old World as 

 Siberia from the ^ enesei i \ i \ «m east, while this region is oooupied by /'. c. 

 obticius aooording to Hartert, /'. c, cinctus ranging from northern Scandi- 

 navia to western Siberia. Aoanthopnwsto borwlis ranges from northern 

 Norway to Kamohatka, while by the Check-1 ist it is oonfined to "Western 

 Alaska" a range given by Ridgway for t ho non-aooepted .1. />. ksnntcottt, 

 although we find ' Kennioott's Willow Warbler' asthe English name of the 

 bird. On the whole for these Bpeoies the Committee seem to have followed 

 Sharpe in bis Hand-List, ami Sharps was a steadfasl binomialist. So wo 

 find them believing in binomials as far as European species are concerned 

 ami trinomials for American. Ye1 while these birds are treated with bi- 

 nomials wo find another straggler to our shores admitted in the Sixteenth 

 Supplement with a trinomial appellation Calliope caUiopt camtschat- 



fcsnstS, a form whioh even such an arch 'splitter' as llartort dooms un- 

 worthy of recognition. 



Seeking to comprehend just where the Committee stood l turned next to 

 American species that are only stragglers within one borders. Of the 

 Bpeoies Spinus noiatus, Tim-is tricolor, Potrocholidonjvlva and Ccri/lc torqnata 

 subspecies are generally recognised but they appear as binomials m the 

 i Sheck-List, while w ith the first three the ranges as given in the Check-] ist 

 coincide with those given by Ridgway for S, n, Rotates, '/'. />. bioofor, /'. /. 

 fulra. and with C toretiata the range includes that oi the continental form 

 or forms, i -• of the West Indies being, apparently, consid- 



ered a Bpeoies, which it may well bo. 



All this led mo to study the geographical distribution more closely with 

 the following result. I found thai Connecticut had boon omitted from 

 the ranges of Hoiicwtus Uucoctphalus ofoscanus, Otoooris alptstris • 

 Atjcltiiu,* -. LcontAis honunuuitii sxtlipss, Acantais ///.'un'u 



UriHs and Hytodchia, isoiicicola, 



and that .1/:., sola was not known to brood nor this 



maritimw nitiritimus and DumofoMo core s to winter there; that the 

 Magdalen Islands were omitted from the range of Hydro 



n .'--(//a pusillti pusiifa, and Massachusetts and California 

 from that of I srprts - that Wacrorhamphus - is 



orisons was not known to winter in South Carolina or Texas nor Catoptro- 

 phorus s«mipalmatus semipedmatus to yet brood in Nova Scotia; that 

 ffotodromos - • ,:•...< was not known to occur in British Columbia 



nor dSgicditis o breed in North Carolina; that Empidonax wrigkti 



did not ooour in Yukon korritory nor i\ s Ivonica in California 



that Btdoridos tnd Butoo borwdis harlani were unknown 



in North Dakota and thai \\r>nii\< wasnot there in the breed- 



ing season. To find these omissions it was not necessary for mo to search 

 through Literature, as specimens oi practically all these birds are in my own 

 collection and were chiefly obtained by myself during the past thirty yean 

 of field-work. Many of these records have appeared in prim and those 

 that have not were at the disposal of the Committee, if they had wished 



