484 Miscellaneous. 



larger, hairy, and somewhat viscose, the panicle widely spreading, 

 lower bracts foliaceous, and the seeds appear more elongated, but 

 this probably depends on their maturity : I found no flowering spe- 

 cimens, I should think that this may probably be the same as S. 

 Clusii, var. a. of DeCandolle's 'Prodromus.' — J. Ball. 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SOME AMERICAN BIRDS. 



To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. 

 Gentlemen, — Having received a small collection of birds formed 

 in the summer of 1840 by Murdoch M'Pherson, Esq., at Fort Simp- 

 son on the Mackenzie, in lat. 62° 11' N., I send you a list of the 

 species for insertion in the ' Annals,' as it may interest the cultivators 

 of American ornithology, by showing that several of the species have 

 a higher range than has hitherto been recorded. 



1. Merula wilsonii, Fauna Boreali-Americana, ii. p. 182. Turdus 

 wilsonii, Audubon, pi. 144 ; Ornith. Biography, ii. p. 362, and v. 

 p. 456. 



2. Tyrannula piisilla, F. B. A. ii. p. 144. 



3. Sylvicola petechia, F. B. A. ii. p. 215; Aud. pi. 145. f. 1. pi. 163, 

 f. 2 ; Ornith. Biogr. i. p. 260, and v, p. 458. 



4. Sylvicola maculosa, F. B. A. pi. 40 ; Aud. pi. 50 ; Orn. Biogr. 

 i. p. 260, and v. p. 458. 



5. Vermivora peregrina, F. B. A. pi. 42. p. 221 ; Aud. pi. 154 ; 

 Orn. Biogr. ii. p. 307, 



6. Vireo olivaceus, F. B, A. ii. p. 233 ; Aud. pi. 150 ; Orn. Biogr. 

 ii. p. 290. 



7. Setophaga ruticilla, F. B. A. ii. p. 223 ; Aud. pi. 40; Orn. Biogr. 

 i, p. 202. 



8. Fringilla iliaca, F. B. A. ii. p. 257 ; Aud. pi. 108 ; Orn. Biogr. 

 ii. p. 58. 



9. Fringilla pennsylvanica, F. B. A. ii. p. 256 ; Aud. pi. 8 ; Orn. 

 Biogr. i. p. 42. 



Mr. M'Pherson says that this bird sings the first five notes of " O 

 dear, v^^hat can the matter be ?" 



10. Fringilla leucophrys, F. B. A. ii. p. 255 ; Aud. pi. 114; Orn. 

 Biogr. ii. p. 88. 



11. Fringilla hyemalis, F. B. A. ii. p. 259; Aud. pi. 13; Orn. Biogr. 

 i. p. 72. 



12. Fringilla socialis, Aud.pl. 104 ; Orn. Biogr. ii. p. 22. 



I remain. Gentlemen, yours &c., 

 Haslav Hospital, May 8th, 1843. John Richardson, 



FRUCTIFICATION OF CH.ETOPHORA TUBERCULOSA. 



The true fruit of Chcciophora appears hitherto to have been ob- 

 served only by Mr. Berkeley, who communicated specimens to Capt. 

 Carmichael, who made a drawing from them, which, with his other 

 manuscripts, is in the hands of Sir W. J. Hooker. Mr. Berkeley 

 also published a figure of it in his ' Gleanings of British Algae.' Dr. 

 MuUer of Detmold has been so fortunate as to meet with similar 

 fruit in Chetophora tuberculosa, and has given figures of it in the 



