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the kindness of tlie author we have received advance sheets of the above- 

 cited ])aper, shortly to be issued under the auspices of the Connecticut 

 Academy, as the first of a proposed series on the Fauna of that State. 

 Since the appearance of Linsley's " Catalogue of the Birds of Connec- 

 ticut " in 1843, no detailed enumeration of the birds of that State has 

 been published. Hence the advent of Mr. Merriani's paper must be hailed 

 with interest by all engaged in the study of New England Ornithology. 

 The author gives in all two hundred and ninety-two species. Of these 

 he arranges under special lists in tabular form, one hundred and thirty-five 

 as " summer residents " ; twenty which probably breed occasionally, but are 

 not known to do so ; forty-one resident species ; ninety migrants ; sixty- 

 seven winter visitants ; thirty-one irregular summer visitants ; forty-six 

 rare accidental visitants ; and nineteen rare and irregular visitants. Fol- 

 lowing these is a tabulated analysis of Linsley's Catalogue, in which he 

 eliminates sixty-three species given by that author on apparently insuf- 

 ficient authority, though many of these are afterwards included by Mr. 

 Merriam upon more recent and tangible evidence. The Avifauna of Con- 

 necticut, though essentially Alleghanian in character, has been long known 

 to embrace many Carolinian forms, but the relative extent of this " tinge," 

 geographically as well as specifically, has been considerably developed by 

 Mr. Merriani's careful researches. Thus, upon unimpeachable authority 

 are given as birds of Connecticut, Dendrceca dominica, Loylioplianes bicolor, 

 Oporornis formosus, Cardinalis virginianus, Empidonax acadicus, and Cen- 

 turus caroliniis, while, singularly enough, several species known only in the 

 more northern New England States as spring and fall migrants have been 

 found breeding. In the careful elaboration of interesting details culled 

 from personal experience and the note-l>ooks of well-known and trust- 

 worthy field collectors, this paper is most rich. Indeed, if we may be 

 permitted to qualify otherwise undiluted praise by a little censure, we 

 should say that a judicious summarizing of data and incident would divest 

 this paper of a great deal of unnecessary cumbersomeness. Still, it is 

 perhaps Ijetter to err in this direction than in the other and too common 

 one, and Mr. Merriam certainly deserves much credit for his ai\luou3 

 labors. — W. B. 



Note on Doricha enicuka (Vieill.). — About two years ago Mr. H. 

 W. Henshaw submitted some birds to me for determination, among which 

 Avas the female of a species of Humming-Bird obtained by him in Arizona, 

 which I considered to be Doricha enicura, and it is so recorded in United 

 States Geograj.hical Survey AV. of 100th Meritlian, Vol. V, Chap. III. On 

 a re-examination lately made, I find it was not properly referred, aiid a 

 comparison with the female of CalothoniK lucifer (Sw.) shows it to be that 



