226 General Notes. a 
1881), or Foster’s list of the Published Writings of George Newbold 
Lawrence (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 40, 1892), which contains a detailed 
list of the species named in honor of Lawrence. Seebohm (I. c., p. 24) 
gave Turdus brunneus as a synonym of Merula leucops, described by Tac- 
zanowski in 1877, but the status of the name need not be considered here. 
Ordinarily new specific names are not looked for in bibliographies, and 
since Zurdus lawrenct? has remained buried for 18 years, it seems 
desirable to place it on record in some more conspicuous place where it 
will be found by those who may have occasion to take up the nomencla- 
ture of South American Thrushes. —T. S. PALMER, Washington, D. C. 
Some New Records from Central New York. —Since April, 1894, 
when I recorded in ‘The Auk’ eight new species for ‘Oneida County 
and its Immediate Vicinity,’ I have been able to add four new records, 
making the total number of species and subspecies recorded from our 
territory 243. These four records are as follows, viz.: 
Uria lomvia. —In Christmas week, 1894, the mounted letter carrier on 
the road between Utica and New Hartford captured one of these birds 
alive, finding it almost helpless in the road just outside of the city. It 
was kept alive for several days and after its death was mounted and 
preserved. 
Mr. W. S. Johnson of Boonville has recorded two other specimens of 
this species taken the same month in the northern part of this county 
(Auk, Vol. XII, p.177). 
Colinus virginianus. — During 1894 Mr. William R. Maxon of Oneida 
wrote me that his father had seen a Quail near Oneida Lake, that he 
knew the bird well and had watched it for some time at only a short dis- 
tance away. He also wrote me that a pair had nested on the farm of 
Lewis Maxon in the town of Verona about twenty years ago, that one had 
been seen at Vernon and one at Oneida Castle within a few years, and 
that a perfectly reliable gentleman informed him that a few Bob-whites 
were to be seen about his place every year. I then wrote to some of my 
sportsmen friends in that neighborhood, from one of whom I received 
the information that there was a small covey of these birds around the 
barns of a noted shooting man residing near Oneida Lake, that they were 
quite tame and he saw them often; but he would not shoot any of them, 
and intended to see to it that no one else did. So I think we may safely 
write this bird down in our list as rare, in the western part of the 
county. 
Falco peregrinus anatum.— For years there has been a story that a 
pair of Golden Eagles nested every year on the cliffs near the head waters 
of the West Canada Creek, in the town of Morehouse, Hamilton County. 
This town is mostly in the Northern Wilderness of the State and these 
cliffs are miles from human habitation. 2 
In August, 1895, I visited the neighborhood but failed to see either old 
or young birds, though my guide assured me that he had often seen them 
