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Towns., 1839, And., 1839-44. Audubon's figured type proves to be D. 

 culminata, Gould, and was probably obtained too far from our coast to be 

 included in its Avifauna, as none have been found lately alongshore or in 

 sight of land. Townsend does not include it in his list of Oregon birds. 



71. Diomedea fuliginosa, Giml., = D. fusca, And., 1839-44. In- 

 cluded in Towusend's List, but not recently confirmed, and as he does not 

 mention D. nigripes, And., he may have referred to the type of that 

 species. The South Pacific D. exidans and Daption capensis should also 

 be excluded. 



72. .aistrelata haesitata (KuJiL). " California," Lawrence, 1853, by 

 error for Priojinus cinereus (Gmel.). No record of the former from the 

 Pacific. 



73. TufRnus ohscuTua (GmeL). "Northwest coast of America," Nnt- 

 tall,^1834. No late record of its occurrence in the Pacific. 



74. Podiceps minor {Gtnel.). "Oregon," Townsend, 1839. Given by 

 Nuttall as North American, but not lately obtainetl, being a common 

 European species, and confounded by Townsend with either P. cornutus or 

 P. auritus. 



75. Podiceps dominicus (I, win.). " California," Gambel, 1847. Prob- 

 ably not obtained north of the Gulf, and not confirmetl as living north of 

 lat. 32°. 



REMARKS ON SELASPHORUS ALLEN J, Hej^shaw. 



BY D. G. ELLIOT. 



I HAD commenced an article in reference to the two forms of the 

 Selasphorus rufus of authors, as obsei'ved in Califoniia and Mexico, 

 when the July number of the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological 

 Club reached me, containing an interesting paper by Mr. Henshaw, 

 on the California bird, which he describes as new under the name 

 of S. alleni. That there are two well-defined sjiecies, as the terra is 

 usually understood nowadays, I have for a long time been well 

 satisfied in my own mind, and the peculiar shape of the lateral 

 rectrices would seem to be sufficient to establish the specific differ- 

 ences of the two birds. Mr. Henshaw has done good service in 

 pointing these out ; but unfortunately he has conferred a new name 

 upon the wrong bird, for it is the southern form that requires to be 

 designated, and not the northern, or to be perhaps more exact, it is 

 the red-backed bird with the broad tail-feathers, and not the green- 

 backed one with the narrow tail-feathers, that is in need of a name. 



