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species, which must now be included in our Fauna in place of D. enicura. 

 At the time of my first examination I had no specimen of the female of C. 

 lucifer, and was misled by the general similarity of coloring of the two 

 species, especially the distrilmtion of colors in the tail, both having it 

 rufous at base, black in the middle, and white at the end ; D. enicura has the 

 tail-feathers narrower, and the rufous on their bases rather more in extent. 

 The females of Calothorax j)ulchra and of Myrtis fcmnia; closely resemble 

 the same sex of the species spoken of above in general plumage, and in 

 having their tails of the same pattern of coloration. In many allied forms 

 among the Trochilidxe, the females resemble each other so much that a 

 satisfiictory determination of them is quite difficult, except with authentic 

 examples of the different species to compare with. — Geo. N. Lawrence, 

 New York City. 



' OCCURREXCE OF THE BlaCK VuLTURE OR CaRRION CrOW IN OhIO. — 



On or about December 20, 1876, I came upon three individuals of this 

 species {Gathartes atratus, Less.), feeding on the carcass of a hog, in a 

 wooded ravine near Madisonvillej; one of them I shot at and wounded, but 

 lost sight of it in the Avoods, and the other two remained in the immediate 

 vicinity long enough to give me an excellent opportunity to observe their 

 peculiarities of form and flight, although I could not approach within 

 gunshot of them. On January 1, 1877, however^ I found a specimen that 

 had been killed a few days previous, in the same locality, by Mr. Edwin 

 Leonanl, of Madisonville, under circumstances rendering it probable that it 

 was the^one I had wounded ; its skin is now in my collection. 



The occurrence of this bird in Ohio, or in fact anywhere in the Missis- 

 sippi Valley north of the Ohio Eiver, has heretofore rested solely on 

 Audubon's account of its range, which has been quoted by all subsequent 

 writers ; and, being essentially a southern species, its capture here, at a 

 time when the Ohio River was frozen over and the ground covered with 

 several inches of snow, seems worthy of remark. I have identifietl this 

 species here satisfactorily to niyself, on two previous occasions, both in 

 winter, but have never seen the "Turkey Buzzard" (C*. aura) at that season, 

 although it is quite common during the sunimer. — Fr^\nk W. Langdon. 



Occurrence of the Western NoNPAREri. and Berlandier's Wren 

 AT Fort Brown, Texas. — Dr. J. C. Merrill, U. S. A., in a recent letter 

 to the writer, says : " I have recently (April 2.3 and 24, 1877) taken two 

 fine males of Gyanospiza versicolor, a bird new ta oui* Fauna, although 

 included in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway's ' Histoay of North American 

 Birds.' I have also heawl and seen several others. They frequent mes- 

 quite chaparral, and betray themselves by their notes, which somewhat 

 resemble those of G. cyanea. Berlandier's Wren {Tkryothorus ludovicicmus 

 var. berkmdieri), also new, but included in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway's 

 work, I find to be a rather common visitant." Di-. Merrill also states that 



