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does not exist in the southern parts of Xew York or Pennsylvania. 

 DeKay states that it is found in the northern parts of Virginia and Ken- 

 tucky. We, however, sought for it without success in the mountains of 

 Virginia, and could never hear of its existence in Kentucky." 



•Professor Baird states* that the species is found as far south as 

 Northern Pennsylvania in some localities, in which State it is not rare 

 even now. 



Mr. J. A. Allen, the most recent writer on the porcupines, remarks,! 

 that Professor Shaler had failed to hear of the species in Kentucky and 

 Virginia. He was informed by Dr. J. M. Wheaton that a few porcu- 

 pines still survive in Clark, Champaign, and Boss Counties, Ohio, and 

 that it was common ten years since in Putnam County ; and by Mr. E. 

 W. Xelson that the species was formerly rather common, though never 

 abundant, in all of the wooded region north of the Ohio River, but that 

 it is not now found (west of Ohio) south of the forests of Northern Wis- 

 consin and Northern Michigan. 



December 12, 1878. 



CATALOGUE OF THE BIROS OF GRI^'ADA, FROM A COLLECTION 

 ilIAOE BY IT3R. FRED. A. ORER FOR TfflE SHITHSOXIAX INSTITU- 

 TION, INCLUDING OTHERS SEEN B¥ HOI, BUT NOT OBTAINED. 



By GEORGE N. LAWRENCE. 



In ray Catalogue of the Birds of St. Vincent, I stated that Mr. Ober 

 expected to leave that island for Grenada on the 20th of February. He 

 must have left about that time, as some of his notes from Grenada are 

 dated early in March. His collection from there was received at the 

 Smithsonian Institution on the 22d of May, and sent to me a few days 

 after. It consists of but 6G specimens. 



In the following communication from Mr. Ober, he gives the geograph- 

 ical position of the island, with other matters of interest. 



Under most of the species found there, are his notes of their 

 habits, etc. 



His communications are marked with inverted commas. 



" Grenada, the southernmost of the volcanic islands, lies just north 

 of the 12th degree of latitude north of the equator, that parallel just 

 touching its southern point. 



"It is about 18 J miles in length, from N. N. E. to S. S. W., and 7£ 

 miles in breadth. 



" From Kingston, the principal town in St. Yincent, to St. Georges, 

 that of Grenada, the distance is 75 miles ; from the southern end of St. 

 Vincent to the northern point of Grenada the distance is GO miles ; the 

 intervening space being occupied by the Grenadines. 



* Mammals of North America, 1859, p. 568. 



t Monographs of North American Eodentia, by Elliott Coues and Joel Asaph Allen, 

 1877, p. 393. 



