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Ridgway on New Species of American Birds. — Mr. Ridgwaj separates 

 as a now siilispccies tlie Warlilcr from Santa Lucia, W. I.,* hitherto 

 known as Dcndrmca (Kfela/che, under the name Dendrceca adelai'dce deli- 

 cata^ the Santa Lucia form diftering quite markedly in coloration from 

 Porto Rico examples, on which the species was originally hased. lie also 

 describes a supposed new Plover {^■Egialites albidipectus, sp. nov.) based 

 on a single example from Chili, f and a new Petrel {(Estrelata fisher i. sp. 

 nov.) from Alaska, J a species most nearly allied to CE. defillipiana. Mr. 

 Ridgwaj' is inclined to refer also the Petrel taken in Livingston County, 

 N. Y., identified by Mr. Brewster (Bull. N. O. Club. VL 1881, pp. 91-97) 

 as CE. giilaris, to CE. fisheri. — ]. A. A. 



Ridgway on the Genus Tantalus. § — The genus Tantalus Linn, is re- 

 stricted to T. lociilator, while T. leticocepkaltis of India, T. lo7iguimem- 

 i^r/5 of Southern China, and T. lacteus of Java and Sumatra, together with 

 T. ibis, are separated under the new generic name Psendotaiitalns. — ^J. A.A. 



Belding on Birds of Lower California. — These collections || were made 

 at several different points, as follows : (i) Coronados Islands, about 20 

 miles south and west of San Diego, 3 species. (2) San Qiientin Bay, 

 west coast of Lower California, lat. 39° 23', 17 species. (3) Santa Rosalia 

 Bajs two degrees further south, on the same coast, 7 species. (4) Cer- 

 ros Islands, some thirty miles further south, 20 species. (5J La Paz and 

 San Jose del Cabo, southern extremity of the peninsula, about 130 

 species. Mr. Ridgway has added (chiefly to the second paper here 

 noticed) various technical notes, the more important relating to (i) Poliof- 

 tila ccertclea, the darker western race of which is provisionally named P. cos- 

 rulea obsciira, (2) Sitiricsncevius notabilis, (3) Passerculus rostratus. giving 

 extensive tables of measurements and comparisons of the latter with P. gut- 

 tatus and P. sanctoriun (Coues, MS.). Very little field work having been 

 done in the region reported upon in Belding's second paper since the well 

 known explorations of Mr. John Xantus in 1859, Mr. Ridgway has collated 

 therewith the results of Mr. Xantus's work, by giving a list of those species 

 found bv Mr. Xantus (derived mainly from the record books of the Na. 



* Description of a New Warbler, from the Island of Santa Lucia, West Indies. By 

 Robert Ridgway. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, pp. 525, 526. Feb. 28. 1883. 



t Description of a supposed New Plover, from Chili. By Robert Ridgway. Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, pp. 526, 527. Feb. 28, 1883. 



X Description of a New Petrel from Alaska. By Robert Ridgway. Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1882, pp. 656-658. June 26, 1883. 



^^ On the Genus Tantalus, Linn., and its allies. By Robert Ridgway. Proc. U. S _ 

 Nat. Mus., 1882, pp. 550, 551. March 21, 1883. 



II I. Catalogue of a Collection of Birds made at various points along the Western 

 Coast of Lower California, north of Cape St. Eugenio. By L. Belding. Edited by 

 R. Ridgway. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, pp. 527-532. March 21, 1883. 



2. Catalogue of a Collection of Birds made near the Southern Extremity of the 

 Peninsula of Lower California. By L. Belding. Edited by Robert Ridgway. Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, pp. 532-550. March 21, 1883. 



