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St. Paul's Island, Bering Sea. Four subspecies of Shore-Larks are 

 added, but with the exception of one, viz. Otocoris alpestris insular is, 

 Towns., which is resident in the islands of San Nicolas, San Clemente, 

 Santa Cruz, and Santa Rosa, Southern California, these are included 

 in the Brit. Mus. Cat. of Birds (vol. xiii.). Of the numerous species 

 and subspecies added to the North-American list only one species, 

 Megascops hastatus (p. 593), from the vicinity of Mazatlan and 

 possibly from Lower California, and one subspecies, Cardinalis 

 carcUnalis jiorklanus (p. 606), from Florida, are described as new ; 

 but a considerable number are not included in the ' Catalogue of 

 Birds in the British Museum,' besides those already mentioned, viz. : — 

 Tympanuchus americanus Attwateri (Bendire, ' JForest and Stream,' 

 xi. no. 20, p. 425, 1893) ; Megascojps asio cineraceus (Ridgway, 

 'Auk,' xii. p. 390, 1895), from North-western Mexico and con- 

 tiguous portion of the U. S. ; Megascops asio Ailceni (Brewer, ' Auk,' 

 viii. p. 390, 1895), from the eastern foothills of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains in Colorado and New Mexico ; Megascops asio Macfarlanei 

 (Brewster, torn. cit. p. 140), from between the eastern slope of the 

 Cascade Mountains and the western slope of the Rocky Mountains 

 in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana ; Alegascops asio satu- 

 ratus (Brewster, torn. cit. p. 141), from the shores and islands of 

 Puget Sound &c., north to Vancouver Island, New Westminster, and 

 Comax, south along the coast to Portland, Oregon ; Megascops 

 jlammeolus idahoensis (Merriam, N.-Am. Fauna, no. 5, p. 96, pi. i,, 

 1891), from the mountains of Idaho ; Glaucidium Iloskinsii (Brew- 

 ster, 'Auk,' V. p. 136, 1888), from the mountains of southern 

 Lower California ; Melanerpes formicivorus acideatus (Mearns, ' Auk,' 

 vii. p. 249, 1890), from Western Texas to Arizona, and south 

 through mountainous parts of North-west Mexico ; Contopus 

 liichardsonii 2}enitisidce (Brewster, 'Auk,' viii. p. 144, 1891), from 

 southern Lower California : Empidonax cineritius (Brewster, ' Auk,' 

 V. p. 90, 1888), from Lower California and North-western Mexico, 

 south to Mazatlan ; Empidonax griseus (Brewster, ' Auk,' vi. p. 87, 

 1889), from Lower California and Western and Central Mexico, 

 Southern Arizona ; Aphelocoma cnlifomiea ohscura (Anthony, Proc. 

 Cal. Ac. Sci. 2nd ser. ii. p. 75, 1889),from the San Pedro Mountains, 

 Lower California ; Spinus tristis pallidas (Mearns, ' Auk,' vii. p. 244, 

 1890), from Arizona ; Pooca'tes gramineus affinis (Miller, ' Auk,' v. 

 p. 404, 1888), from AVestern Oregon; Animodramus Hensloivii 

 occidentalis (Brewster, 'Auk,' viii. p. 145, 1891), from Dakota; 

 Ammodramus caudacutus stdwirgatiis (Dwight, ' Auk,' iv. p. 233, 

 1887), from the marshes of southern New Brunswick, Prince 

 Edward Island, and probably Nova Scotia, and southward in migra- 

 tion along the Atlantic coast to South Carolina ; Ammodramus 

 maritimus peninsulce (Allen, ' Auk,' v. p. 284, 1888), from the west 

 coast of Florida ; Ammodramus maritimus Sennettii (Allen, ' Auk,' 

 V. p. 286, 1888), from the coast of Texas ; Junco hyemalis Thurberi 

 (Anthony, ' Zoe,' i. p. 238, 1890), from the mountains of California; 

 Junco hgcmalis pinosus (Loomis, ' Auk,' x. p. 47, 1893), from the 



