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the habits of the species observed. ‘Great care has been taken," says 
Mr. Dall, **in the record of habits; * * * and it is presumed to be gener- 
ally correct." Of this we have no doubt, and only regret that we must 
om- 
mending it, as we specially do, to the attentive consideration of ornithol- 
ogists. The accounts of some of the species are very full, and there are 
few paragraphs that do not fill some gap in our previous knowledge with 
highly interesting matter. 
Mr. Dall includes in the list Vanellus cristatus, from a description given 
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hi ya hunter of a bird kille islan the Golsova River, and 
which **could apply to no other It untry;" no specimens, 
however, wer n. The other actual additions to our bird-fauna 
origen. badiiventris (Lawr., Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist., N. Y., 1865, p. 172), 
is Nicaraguan; the others are from the North-west; some are well-known 
old-world apiki new to our fauna; others have been separately de- 
scribed as new by Cassin, Elliot and Coues, of late years; while others 
still are here presented for the first time. The most interesting of these 
are doubtless the three that respectively introduce to our fauna as many 
genera previously known only as old-world. Pyrrhula is represented by 
a variety (Cassini Baird) of coccinea; “ the color of the under parts, if 
really characteristic of the adult male, will at once distinguish it, in be- 
ing light cinnamon gray, as in the female coccinea, instead of bright nim- 
Sem red” (p. 316); the single specimen is from Nulato, January 10, 1867. 
other eustes peoa Baird (one specimen, St. 
Michaels), closely altied to »" trochilus and Eversmanui; and a Budytes, 
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(p. 277) : — “I first observed this species at St. Michael's saad the 9th or 
10th of June, and from that until well into the month of August; they 
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nicus, the most abundant of the strictly terrestrial species. During the 
month of June n Sumo them generally in flocks of from twenty to 
thirty individua 
Scops vesci (Elliot, Proc. A. N. S., Phil., 1867, p. 69, and Ill. B. 
Am. pl. x, one specimen, Sitka), is a large, dark, northern form, close by 
igo nor T. hyemalis in shape and generally similar to it in color, with 
the siz - edon; **of its distinctness from any other North American 
PE. Ran can be no question " (p. 815). Leucosticte griseinucha Brandt, 
*On Additions to the Bird h America, made by the Scientific Corps of the 
Russo-Ameriean Telegraph siens By 8. F. Baird. — Ibid., p. 311, (Art. x.) 
