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I can also record from Minneapolis, Leucosticte tephrocotis littoralis, 
a male of which was taken by a young collector on Jan. 3, 1889. It was shot 
from among a flock of Snow Buntings. I examined the specimen and 
compared it with one from Colorado collected in April. It was a shade 
darker than the Colorado bird.—Gro. G. CANTWELL, Minneapolis, Minn. 
Notes from Wyoming.—While taking field notes on migration of birds 
during the spring just passed I have been fortunate in finding a few 
species beyond what appears to be their known eastern or western limit. 
My record is as follows :— 
April 14, Carpodacus mexicanus frontalis, one individual, a male, and 
also Agelaius gubernator, one male bird in flock of A. phaniceus. 
May 23, Dendroica pensylvanica, one male. 
May 25, Micropalama himantopus, two birds, possibly a pair. 
May 28, Prranga erythromelas, one male. 
On June 11, a pair of Carpfodacus mexicanus frontalis were found 
breeding one mile west of Cheyenne. The nest was close up under the 
eaves of a log house, upon the projecting end of a log. The female, nest, 
and eggs were brought to me for identification. — FRANK Bonn, Chey- 
nne, Wyoming. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
EUGEN FERDINAND VON HOoMEYER, a distinguished ornithologist, and 
a Corresponding Member of the A. O. U., died at Stolp, Pomerania, May 
31, 1889, in the eightieth year of his age, he having been born at Heerdin, 
near Auklam, Nov. 11, 1809. His principal works were ‘Systematische 
Uebersicht der Vogel Pommerns,’ 1837, and Supplement to the same, 1841; 
‘Beitrage zur Kentniss der Végel Ostsibiriens und des Amurlandes’ (J. 
f. O., 1868-70) ; and ‘Die Wanderungen der Végel mit Riicksicht auf die 
Zuge der Saugethiere, Fische und Insecten’, 18S1. He was also the author 
of a long list of important special papers, relating mainly to the birds of 
the Palzarctic Region, of which he possessed a very rich collection. 
He was for some years president of the Ornithological Society of Berlin, 
THE SEVENTH ConcrReEss of the American Ornithologists’ Unior will 
be held at the American Museum of Natural History, 77th Street and 
8th Avenue, New York City, beginning Tuesday, November 12, 1889. 
Besides the usual routine of business, and action on important proposed 
amendments to the ‘By-Laws’ of the Union, many scientific papers will 
be presented. A large attendance of both Active and Associate Members 
is expected. As already announced (Auk, VI, pp. 82, 208) a new feature 
