ZOOLOGY. 745 
Cape Cod in 144 fathoms, soft mud, the temperature of the 
bottom being 39.° 
This is a shallow, cup-shaped, small coral, remotely allied to 
Caryophyllia, and has heretofore only occurred in from 60 to 
130 fathoms off the southern extremity of Florida, where it was 
dredged by Count Pourtales, to whom I am indebted for the iden- 
tification. It will be remembered that Mr. Whiteaves dredged a 
species of Flabellum in the deeper parts of the Gulf of St. Law- 
rence summer before last. — A. S. PACKARD, Jr. 
Tue Mrissourr Sxytark.—In the November number of the 
Naturauist Dr. Coues speaks of having met, the past season, 
with great numbers of the Missouri skylark (Neocorys Sprague?) 
on the.prairies of the northern border of Dakota, referring to it, 
indeed, as one of the commonest species observed there. It 
seems, in fact, to be a common species over a wide area, as I had 
the pleasure of meeting with it myself, the past summer, from the 
Missouri River, near Fort Rice, to the Yellowstone, over much of 
which region it was quite abundant. It being a migratory species, 
leaving the plains of the Upper Missouri by the end of September, 
it seems stranger than ever before that a bird so numerous should 
have so long escaped observation, and that its winter quarters 
should still remain unknown.—J. A. ALLEN. 
RANGE OF THE EARED Grese. — Although this species (Podi- 
ceps auritus var. Californicus) is common along the Pacific coast 
of the United States in winter, it has not hitherto, to my 
knowledge, been found east of the Rocky Mountains in the United 
States, nor been known to breed anywhere within our limits. In 
July of this year I took several specimens in perfect plumage, at 
Turtle Mountain, lat. 49°, long. about 100° 30’, under circumstan- 
ces which left no donbt of their breeding at this point. They were 
found on some of the numerous ponds about the foot of the moun- 
tain, in company with the common horned grebe (P. cornutus), 
the ruddy and various other ducks, all of which had young at the 
time.— Exxtorr Coues. 
Syow Po Mr. W. H. Edwards writes us that in 1842 Mr. 
D. W. Marsh and himself found the nest and eggs of this bird 
on the summit of Graylock Mountain, and that he still has two 
of the nests collected at that time. 
