gi ii ZOOLOGY. 
ravens and the crows both frequent and breeding in the same 
forests, sometimes even within a few hundred yards of each other. 
Both species appear to occur together over a large portion of the 
region between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains, as 
Dr. Hayden speaks of both as “very abundant throughout the 
northwest,”* applying the same words to each. Along the Heart, 
Yellowstone and Musselshell rivers, the crow is much the more 
abundant of the two, but is more confined to the timber skirting 
the streams, where it may sometimes be met with in considerable 
flocks. The raven is more generally dispersed, and is as often 
met with far out on the barren treeless ‘‘divides” as elsewhere, 
seeming to delight even in the most desolate portions of the “bad 
lands.”—J. A. ALLEN. 
A Nore Personat.—Dr. Coues suggests, in the July NATU- 
RALIST, that there ought to have been some mention of ‘ localities” 
in the Aiken-Holden list. Of course there ought, and there would 
have been, but for causes quite beyond control without a too long 
postponement of the publication of the paper. Both writers were 
nomadic, and all communication was interrupted. It would have 
been well, perhaps, to have stated the occasion of this omission in 
justice to Mr. Aiken. It was not necessary, however, for Mr. Hol- 
den, as his localities are given, with sufficient exactness, as in the 
immediate vicinity of Sherman. Dr. Coues thinks that mountain 
settlement ‘‘ quite a long way from the ‘ Black Hills’ as laid down 
on the maps.” He may be right. Black Hills is about as vague 
a term as White-head, Long Island, ete. Nevertheless, when I 
was near Sherman five years ago, I was assured by the residents 
that I was in the very heart of the Black Hills. This, however, 
is not pertinent to the point. We know where Sherman is, and 
it does not matter whether the term is exactly right or not.—T. 
M. Brewer. 
OCCURRENCE or A Derr Sea FLORIDAN CORAL NEAR Care COD. 
— Perhaps the most interesting discovery during the sig 
of the deeper parts of the Gulf of Maine in the U. S. coast 
survey steamer ‘* Bache” in September last, under the epee of 
the U. S. Fish Commission, was that of a fragment of Deltocyathus 
ase Pourtales. This occurred about twenty miles east of 
* Trans. Am.Phil. Soe., Vol. xii, pp. 170, 171. 
