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rather than to bairdi, which has long been known from the State. The 

 last week in April, 1909, I secured two specimens of wrens at Irwin's 

 Ranch, Las Animas County, about twelve miles due west of Shell Rock 

 Canon, and exactly the same sort of country (rocks, cedars, and pifions), 

 which have been compared by Mr. W. L. Sclater with specimens in the 

 Colorado College Collection, and he informs me they are undoubtedly 

 bairdi. This being the case, it seems more than likely that the bird seen 

 by Cary was also bairdi, and that cryptus should be eliminated from the 

 Colorado list until more positive evidence is obtained. — Edward R. 

 Warren, Colorado Springs, Colo. 



A Correction. — In my paper on Colorado birds in ' The Auk' for April, 

 1909 (p. 184), Thryomanes bewicki cryptus was definitely listed as a new 

 record for the State, on the strength of a field identification made in Baca 

 County. Through an unaccountable oversight the form cryptus was not 

 queried, and hence the record appeared as definite, instead of tentative. 

 Since Mr. H. C. Oberholser now considers all of the western Texas Bewick 

 wrens to be eremophilus ( = "bairdi"), the record should stand as Thryo- 

 manes bewickii eremophilus. 1 



In the same paper a specimen of Catherpes from Baca County was listed 

 as C. m. conspersus. Upon examination Mr. Oberholser calls this specimen 

 C. m. polioptilus. 1 The statement made that Gaume's Ranch, Baca County, 

 is the most eastern locality for Colorado is erroneous, since Mr. E. R. 

 Warren 2 has already recorded the Canon Wren from Cheyenne Wells, near 

 the Kansas line. 



The above errors were due to the writer's absence from Washington in the 

 field. — Merritt Cary, U. S. Biological Survey, Washington, D. C. 



Bicknell's Thrush (Hylocichla alicia: bicknelli) in Cumberland County, 

 Maine. — Having recently had occasion to examine some Gray-cheeked 

 Thrushes, all of the specimens contained in the collections of the Portland 

 Society of Natural History and of the writer were brought together. This 

 revealed the fact that a specimen in the Natural History Society's collec- 

 tion is a Bicknell's Thrush. It is a young female, taken in Cumberland 

 County, Maine, September 30, 1878. Although the specimen is so char- 

 acteristic that no doubt existed as to its identity, it was submitted to Dr. 

 Charles W. Richmond for verification. 



There appears to be no previous record of a specimen taken in Maine, 

 yet it has been reported, in each instance without capture of a specimen, 

 from the following localities: Franklin, 1906 (D. W. Sweet, Journ. Orn. 

 Soc, VII, p. 81); Oxford, 1899 (A. P. Larrabee, verbal); Piscataquis, 

 1898 (F. H. Allen, Auk, XV, p. 60).— Arthur H. Norton, Portland, Me. 



['The proper name of this form is bairdi (cf. Auk, XXV, July, 1908, p. 385). 

 Neither " eremophilus " nor " polioptilus " are recognized in the A. O. U. Check- 

 List (cf. Auk, t. c, p. 397).— Edd.] 



2 Condor, IX, 1907, p. 111. 



