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about sixty-five or seventy miles in length by twenty in width. . . . 

 The northern end rises to a height, in one or two peaks, of 12,500 feet, 

 estimated, and from that point the ridges and peaks drop away by degrees 

 until at the southern end they merge into the low, barren hills, common to 

 the peninsula at this point." A few rather important corrections are 

 made of notes furnished by Mr. Anthony to Mr. Bryant's 'List of the 

 Birds of Lower California,' published a few years since, due mainly, it 

 appears, to their accidental insertion under the wrong species, as in the 

 case of Harris's Hawk and the Red tailed Hawk, but sometimes to mis- 

 identification, as in the case of the Horned Larks, where the form found 

 at San Quintin is the Otocoris alpcstris pallida instead of O. a. rubea. 

 More to the northward chrysolcema is the race found in the breeding 

 season. The paper forms a welcome and valuable addition to our knowl- 

 edge of the distribution of the birds of Lower California, and especially of 

 this previously little known portion of the peninsula. — J. A. A. 



Short's Birds of Western New York. 1 — This is a briefly annotated list 

 of 207 species, but its exact geographical scope is not defined, "Western 

 New York" being a somewhat indefinite term. While the list is evidently 

 prepared with care, and its statements may doubtless be taken as trust- 

 worthy, it is not typographically pleasing, the specific names all beginning 

 with capital letters and the Latin names being printed in the same kind of 

 type as the general text. It is, moreover, liberally sprinkled with printer's 

 errors. The list is certainly worthy of a better presentation. Acknowl- 

 edgments are made for assistance to Frank H. Lattin, Neil F. Posson 

 and Leslie V. Case. We note that the American Eared Grebe is given in 

 place of Holboell's Grebe, and the Yellow-beliied Flycatcher as a "rare 

 summer resident and breeder." These are the only records that seem 

 improbable, while the last may not be altogether so in some part of the 

 region covered by the list. — J. A. A. 



Ridgway on the Genus Myiarchus. 2 — The genus is divided into four 

 "sections" or subgenera, two of which are new. These are (1) Myiarchus 

 Cab., including the greater part of the species usually referred to the 

 genus Myiarchus ; (2) O/iychopterus Reich., including M. tuberculifer 

 (D'Orb.), M. lawrencii (Gir.), and M. barbirostris (Sw.) ; (3) Eribates 

 Ridgw., type Myiobius magnirostris Gray; (4) Deltarhyjtchus Ridgw., 

 type M. flammulatus Lawr. Mr. Ridgway regards M. yiccatatiensis as a 

 tvpical member of the restricted Myiarchus, differing from the M. law- 

 rencii and M. I. olivasce/is in its "approximately cylindrical" instead of 

 "distinctly depressed" bill, larger size and rather' lighter coloration. — 

 J. A. A. 



1 Birds of | Western New York, | with Notes. | By | Ernest H. Short. | Chili, N. Y. | 

 August 1st, 1893. 8vo. pp. 13. 



2 Remarks on the Avian Genus Myiarchus, with special reference to M. yucatanensis 

 Lawr. By Robert Ridgway. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVI, 1893, pp. 605-608. 



