iSSS.] General Not,<!. 3II 



///«>■ CPioc. U. S. N;it. Mus., VII. 1S84. pp. 210-229) he would have fouiul 

 :ill tliJ iloul)ts expressed hy him on pp. 390-391 in regard to tlie distrihii- 

 tioii of Cepphiis lU'indtii in the Pacifico-glacial waters cleared up. aiul he 

 woidii not have urged a reopening of the question. 



Wliether ^l«.<t,'r 4'-<;/«/n;// really differs sw^c/fw/Zy to be recognized as a 

 separate race o^ A. (dbifrons, is to my mind rather doubtful, as the Old 

 Wcjrld materi il al mv c>)mm uul is very scanty, and I am afraiil liiat the 

 Old World ornithologists are in about the same dilliculty with respect to 

 A. >rauil>cli. Ilmvever, Mr. Ritlgway and I, going over our material con- 

 jointly, found that the length of the exposed culmen in t3'pical ^1. (ilbifioiis. 

 varies between 40 and 45 mm., while in A. gambcli the range is between 

 46 and 60 mm. The 'Vega' expedition skin with a bill of 47 mm. conse- 

 (piently falls within the limits of yl. gambeli, and confirms my conjectuie 

 that all the birds of the Asiatic Pacific coast belong to this form. 



Palmcn, on p. 442, charges that authors have overlooketl Kittlitz's 

 statement in regard to the supjiosed occurrence of Pltilmtr rauagica 

 {.[user />t'r/ics Pall.) in Kamtschatka. but on p. 318 of my -Results, etc' 

 he will find that I have referred to Kittlit/.'s bird, and identified it as prob- 

 al)Iv belonging to Branta hutchinsii, a relerence which is no doubt en- 

 tirely correct. — L. Stejneger. 



A Catalogue of the Birds of North Carolina.* — The author is intluced 

 to present this work in its "present imperfect form" in "the ho]ie that the 

 publication now of the rec(jrds (jf the work, so tar as it has progressed, 

 mav stimidate a ilesire in resident North Carolinians in dilTerent parts of 

 the Slate to collect material ant! recoixi observations of the birds to be 

 found within our State limits." Two hundred and fifty-five "sjiecies and 

 subspecies" are enumerated, of which "about 120 species have been ob- 

 served and absolutely identified" by the author, who acknowledges his 

 indebtedness, for notes on the occurrence of the major portion of the 

 remaining one hundred and thirty-five, to Charles F. Batchelder, William 

 Brewster, II. II. and C S. Brimley, and John S. Cairnes, but has evidently 

 overlooked Coues's 'Birils observed at Fort Macon. N. C.."t anil also 

 Sennett's 'Observations in Western North Carolina Mountains in iSS6,'t 

 whicii contain twenty species not incluiled in the present 'Catalogue,' 

 while a re-examination of Cairnes's list will add one more, lieing largely 

 based on the printed works of the autliors mentioned, it contains coni- 

 parativelv little original mutter requiring comment, but notices of the 

 capture of Chen c<Erulesccns ("taken on Bogue Beach, one mile from Fort 

 Macon in spring of 1S84") and Spizella pallida ("Chapel Hill, March 8, 

 18S6") are apparently here recorded for the first time. An appendix, 



* Preliminary Catalogue of the Birds of Nortli Carolina, with notes on some of the 

 species. [By] George F. Atkinson. Contributed from the Biological Laboratory of 

 the Univ. of N. C, No. VI. journal of Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, 1887, Part 2. 



t Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1871, pp. 18-47; 1878, pp. 22-24. 



+ Auk, Vol. IV., July, 1887, pp. 240-245. 



