Bombyces." No species of Attaci have yet been discc 

 Cuba ; the very extensive collections of Lepidoptera mac 

 Island by Professor Poey and Dr. Gundlach having bee 

 ined by me (see Grote, on the Bombycida? of Cuba, P 

 Ent. Soc. Phil., 5). As stated, Linne" has no species u 

 name Pohj]>Jiemus in his 10th or 12th Editions, or in 1 

 Lud. Ulr., but I find that in the 13th Edition, p. 2402, 



He says: "Habitat in America, boreal i, Jamaica." The preceding 

 species is his Paphia, of which he says: "Habitat in Asia," and 

 there is no reference, doubtful or otherwise, to Catesby. So that 



doubt that "Linne's Paphia is a distinct species from our Polyphe- 



I have recently given the synonymy of the North American forms 

 of the group {Attaci) to which Polyphemus belongs in the Trans- 

 actions of the American Philosophical Society. — A. R. Grote. 



Notes on California* Thrushes.— The recent appearance of 

 the excellent work by Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, on the "His- 

 tory of North American Birds," makes it necessary for me to ex- 

 plain some discrepancies between my statements in the "Orni- 

 thology of California" and the views taken by them in relation to 



1. A reference to Baird's report, in Vol. IX, P.R.R. series, will 



believe that T. ustulatus was limited to the "Coast region of 

 Washington Territory and Oregon," while the T. nanus was con- 

 fined to the "Pacific Slope, from Ft. Bridger and Ft. Crook (about 

 lat. 41°) to the valley of the Gila and Cape St. Lucas.* In the Or- 

 nithology of California I merely extended the range of ustulatus 



posed) while in the Colorado valley, and at San Diego I only 

 found naiius at that si-asou. Reiving too much on the authority 



dwarfed race (without reference to their eastern allies). I may 



