936 The American Naturalist. [November, 
We thus see that birds long supposed to be of the past may 
yet linger with us in a few lonely specimens. Oh! that we 
might reinstate again the proud hosts of the mystic past in 
the lands they once adorned, and in whose ornithological 
features they once figured so prominently. To this land a 
few still cling in loving faithfulness to the traits of an innu- 
merable ancestry. 
