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off the article because we ¢unnot localize the occurrences more 
precisely. Mr. Helden’s observations appear to have been made 
about Sherman, in the southeast corner of Wyoming, quite a long 
way from the “ Black Hills” as laid down on the maps; while Mr. 
Aiken’s (we understand) were in Colorado, somewhere about Ca- 
ñon City or Fountain, south of Denver. That our criticism does 
not lack point may be seen in the fact, that out of 142 species re- 
ported upon, only 26 (not one-fifth) are mentioned by both observ- 
ers; and nearly 100 are given by Mr. Aiken alone. This shows 
such a radical difference in the faunal characteristic of the regions 
embraced in the paper, that its two sides would have been pre- 
sented much better apart ; ‘while if merged, the precise locality of 
observation should have been given in every instance. s it 
stands, such birds as Geococcyx Californianus and Pipilo mesoleu- 
cus find themselves in ornithological company they never saw out- 
side of a book. The biographical notes are excellent and perfectly 
reliable. We note with surprise the breeding of Scolecophagus 
ferrugineus in a place (somewhere between the Black Hills, Wy- 
oming and Cañon City, Colorado) where S. cyanocephalus would 
have been expected, and also the occurrence of Hrismatura Domi- 
nica somewhere in Colorado or Wyoming. A new bird, Junco 
hyemalis var. Aikenii, is named, but not described, nor is even the 
authority for the name given. As the page stands, Mr. Aiken is 
placed in a peculiar predicament of having named a bird after 
himself. It is not to the point that we, or others, happen to know - 
_what the bird is, and who its sponsor is. The name here published 
for the first time, though it may have been already in type else- 
where, should have been accompanied with a description, or at 
least a reference. Other nomenclatural points might be criticised. 
Thus Cyanura macrolopha ‘and Cyanocitta Woodhousei are cer- 
; * tainly not good species: while the impr opriety of the name 
_ Myiarchus Mexicanus” for the Tyrannula cinerascens of Law- 
rence has been fully AEEA by Dr. Sclater, Mr. Lawrence and 
ourselves. 
` Mr. Scott’s list* “gives the results of about two months of field- 
ak (from the middle of June till the middle of. August) on the 
bird fauna of a portion of Kanawha County, West Virginia. Dur- 
Nis eal 
: Siapa List of poa Summer Birds y, West Virginia; with annotar 
y W. D. Scott. Proc cae of the Boston Society of Natural History, XY, 
219. 
