52 Merriam on Birds of Leivis County, New York. 



interpres has been observed as late as September 5 in latitude 82° 

 30' N., Calidris arenaria, with nest and eggs, in latitude 82° 33' N., 

 Phalarojnis fulicarius in latitude 82° 27', and Tringa canutus in lati- 

 tude 82° 33' N. 



Podiceps cristatus, Latham. Crested Grebe. This has been 

 counted as a North American bird by Bonaparte (Syn. p. 417), by 

 Richardson (Faun. Bor. Am. II, p. 410), by Nuttall (Water Birds, 

 p. 250), by Audubon (Orn. Biog. Ill, 595, pi. 292), and others. It 

 is retained by Mr. Lawrence in the ninth volume of Pacific Railroad 

 Reports, and is even given by Dr. Coues in his " Birds of the North- 

 west," without any expression of doubt as to its existence in North 

 America ; indeed, he ventures the remark that he sees no differ- 

 ence between American and European specimens. Nevertheless it 

 is now universally conceded that not a specimen is in existence of 

 American origin, and that there is no authentic record of the cap- 

 ture of a single specimen in America. Every specimen that has been 

 referred to this species, where in existence, proved to be either 

 immature examples of P. griseigena, or to be foreign examples, and 

 by no one is this now more cheerfully conceded than by Dr. Coues 

 himself. 



It is very obvious now, in reading Mr. Audubon's notes by the 

 light of our present knowledge of the habits of the American form 

 of the Red-necked Grebe, that all he wrote in reference to the sup- 

 posed American P. cristatus relates exclusively to the former species, 

 of which he makes but a brief mention, and with which he appeared 

 to regard himself as unfamiliar, although it is so common about East- 

 port and the provinces where he spent the spring of 1833. 



REMARKS ON SOME OF THE BIRDS OF LEWIS COUNTY, 

 NORTHERN NEW YORK. 



BY C. HART MERRIAM. 



With Remarks by A. J. Dayan. 



The county of Lewis, though small, is interesting ornithologi- 

 cally, from the fact that the Canadian and Alleghanian faunte meet 

 within its boundaries, and that the densely wooded portion lying 

 east cf the Black River Valley constitutes the western border of 



