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Tlie Museum of Copen)\.igen has received froin Greenland specimens 

 of five species hitherto not known as Greenland birds. Mr. Winge gives 

 their names as follows : — Coccjzus amcriranus, Scolccophagiis carolitius, 

 Dendroica maculosa, Doidroica fciisylvanica , and Seiur/is iiox'cbora- 

 coisis. 



As the Museum intends in two years or so (when the Danish expedition, 

 which now goes to explore the east coast of Greenland, has come back) 

 to publish a treatise on Greenland birds, Mr. Winge wished that the dates 

 about these species should first be made known through this treatise, so I 

 must regret my inability to give them here. 



Holboel mentions that he sent to the Museum ot Copenhagen a skin of 

 Somatcria, which I supposed to be a Somatcria V-nig-ra, but Mr. Winge 

 informs me that the Museum is not in possession of a Greenland skin of 

 Somatcria, which can be interpreted as Somatcria V-nigra, which thus 

 becomes still more problematic as a Greenland species. 



I have just received a lot of Greenland bird-skins and eggs from Fred- 

 erikshaab (in lat. 62'-'). Of eleven skins of Gyrfalcon six are white and five 

 gray. Two of the gray birds were shot in October, 18S9, and two of the 

 white ones in the same month; three white ones in December, 1S89; '^'^^ 

 rest are unlabelled. One of the gray Falcons is so dark that it in my 

 opinion must be a Falco riisti'cohis obsolctns. Perhaps the whole scale of 

 color is found in Greenland. 



Of seven skins of Gavia alba, four adults (two males and two females), 

 were shot 26 Feb., 1S90; an old male iS April, 1890, and a young male 

 24 Nov., 1889. With them was a skin of Zcma sabiiiii. 



Andreas T. Hagerup. 

 Viborg, Denmark. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



The plate of the Eared Whip-poor-will {Otophancs mclrod/V Biewstei) 

 accompanying this number of 'The Auk' is the first of a series of colored 

 plates illustrating birds recently described from Mexico by Mr. Brewster. 

 The second of the series, illustrating two species of A/eo-asco/>s, will ap- 

 pear in the October number. Later appropriate text will be furnished to 

 accompany the plates. The Eared Whip-poor-will was described in 

 'The Auk,' Vol. V, 1888, p. 89, from a specimen collected by Mr. R. R. 

 McLeod, in the Sierra Madre of Chihuahua, Mexico, Dec. 6, 1884. The 

 characters of this peculiar bird have been faithfully portrayed by Mr. 

 Ridgway. The type remains unique. 



John C. Cahoon, widely known as a field naturalist, and an energetic, 

 expert, and conscientious collector, met his death at Curslet, Newfound- 

 land, April 26, by a fall from a clifT, while collecting, to the rocks, seventy 



