﻿!3 2 FIELD AND FOREST. 



breasts, I think must have been Neocorys spraguei were fired at, 

 without effect however. A single Ceryle alcyon, a dozen Anpclis ce- 

 drorum and a few Zenaidura carolinensis, near Pond Creek. Nunie- 

 nins lojigirostris in all suitable localities, but shy. It took the com- 

 bined efforts of Mr. Earll, two others and myself, with a very liberal 

 cannonading, to persuade one to sacrifice himself to science. 



On the marshes in the neighborhood of Galveston, I easily recog- 

 nized Totanus melanoleuca, flavipes and solitarius, Steganopus wilsoni, 

 Tringa maculata, Tringoides macularius, Calidris arenaria and s£gi- 

 alitis vpcifera. I was not a little surprised to meet my old friend 

 Limosa hudsonica, but such. is the fact. Many more would of course 

 have been found if I had had the time to go into the marshes or on 

 the beach; but I was obliged to be satisfied (?) with viewing -this most 

 glorious field, from the deck of the steamer, and lament at leisure my 

 inability to investigate this ornithologist's paradise. As a consequence 

 my notes from Galveston are rather thin. One other reason is that 

 the majority of birds seen here were such as I dare not identify unless 

 I have the bird in my hand. Swans were seen near Houston, and 

 again at Galveston, but which species I cannot say. Pelecanus fnscus 

 of course, and several large Graculi, but if carbo, dilophus or flori 

 danus, I am unable to say. G. mexicanus I identified from its small 

 size. One Rhynchops nigra and several Puffinus fuligihosus. When 

 nearing Achafalaya Bay, Louisiana, I noticed the first and only La'rus 

 Smiths oni anus, delawarensis and C. Philadelphia, I had no diffi- 

 culty in determining, as a. large concourse of these species, with two 

 others, followed the steamer constantly. Saw some large Terns, pre- 

 sumedly regia, also some small ones ; one in particular about the size 

 of forsteri, but with a black bill was no doubt S. cantiaca. I was left 

 in doubt in regard to many, e g., a Colymbus, what I took to be a Ster- 

 corarius, many Gulls and Terns, and in fact a general assortment of 

 water birds seen from a distance and under circumstances likely to 

 mislead. 



LUDOVIC KUMLEIN. 



University of Wisconsin. December, 1876. 



We shall commence publishing in the March number, a catalogue 

 of the Birds of the District of Columbia. 



