Description of a Neiv Hemilc^ica. 2jg 



gle clean cut and pointing toward the head. Discal spots on 

 secondaries, small, black, never with any lunule or central mark 

 ^vhate\^er. 



Habitat, Southern California. 



Types in Author's Museum. 



This species has been heretofore run in with H. Nevadensis, 

 Stretch, but must be separated because of the red tufts on thorax, 

 the white spots on abdomen beneath, the color of the nervules 

 across dark margin, the angled lunules on secondaries, in all of 

 which the differences are persistent and without intergrades. In- 

 deed, there appears to be as great a difference between H. Cali- 

 fornica and Ne\'adensis, as between Nevadensis and the Eastern 

 Maia. W. G. Wright. 



San Bernardino, Cal. 



THE TROUSLOT COLLECTION. 



R. B. Trouslot & Co., late publishers of The Hoosier Natural- 

 ist, have recently made large additions to their private oological 

 cabinets, by the purchase, through Frank H. Lattin, of the larger 

 part of J. C. Maynard's collection, all of Harry G. Parker's collec- 

 tion, all of F. M. Carryl's collection, together with large lots from 

 other collections from all parts of the United States. There were 

 also two large boxes of foreign eggs. 



These are being listed, and all duplicates not desirable for their 

 collection will be placed on the market. 



They also secured many large and showy shells, corals, curiosi- 

 ties, etc., for their museum. 



There was an immense slab of bark from one of the mammoth 

 California trees. Recent protective laws relative to the preserva- 

 tion of these wonderful trees, will tend to make their bark exceed- 

 ingly rare. It is undoubtedly the largest single chunk ever carried 

 east. 



They anticipate also securing the only known set of eggs and 

 nest of the Bahama Cuckoo. This set was collected by J. C. 

 Maynard, and is figured in his 'Birds of the Bahamas.' 



The entire purchase aogregated $3350.00. 



Messrs. Trouslot & Co. can be congratulated on securing so 

 ■complete a series of North American eggs, which will be of great 

 assistance to our associate editor, R. B. Trouslot, the head of the 

 firm, in connection with his departments of ornithology and 

 oology. 



We received a pleasant call recently from Dr. H. Mayr, of the 

 Bavarian Poorest School, with his bride, who spent a day at San 

 Diego while on their way to Japan. Dr. Mayr has been appointed 

 to the professorship of botany in the University of Tokio. 



