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AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
Vol. VII.— JUNE, 1873.—No. 6. 
CoRPORDOOD I~ 
SOME UNITED STATES BIRDS, NEW TO SCIENCE, AND 
OTHER THINGS ORNITHOLOGICAL. 
BY DR, ELLIOTT COUES, U. 8. A 
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[Based on manuscripts and colleetions of Lt. C. Bendire, U. S. A.] 
No sooner has the press closed upon the “ Key to North Amer- 
ican Birds” than I am called upon to add to our fauna two species 
hitherto unknown to inhabit this country, and believed to be un- 
described. But since a new bird * has lately been discovered in 
Massachusetts, ransacked by ornithologists for half a century, it 
is not surprising that the comparatively untilled fields of the west 
Should still yield novelties; and we may rest satisfied that North 
merican ornithology will not crystallize till it has simmered for 
another generation or so. During the year just closed my es- 
teemed correspondent has been diligently collecting near Tucson, 
Arizona, and has frequently favored me with interesting com- 
munications and specimens. Some of his earlier notes have al- 
ready been published in this Magazine; and now I have a few 
more I am equally pleased to offer. Besides the two species of 
* Passerculus rinceps Maynard, Am. Nat. vi, 637.— COUES, Key, 352. 
t Relating to ey discovery, in the seats States, of Glaucidium 
Sate, ma Tyra nnus melancholi icus var. Couchii. ——— discovery of the nest 
d eggs of Ai th. h Tuci Pe 
var Mexico In a còmi ion dated Dec. 29, 1872, Lt lire infor fth 
k cson, of Scardafella squamosa ar. Fnoasy a dove moreno though reso 
trodu spd te to our faa, 1 has never before, vie si know! 
limits of the United Sta 
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