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cently described by Dr. Brewer in this Bulletin (Vol. IV, p. 190), and in 
the “ Ibis” (1879, p. 375) ; but Captain Feilden (Ibis, 1879, p. 486) has 
considered their authenticity doubtful (cf. Harting, Zoologist, March, 1880, 
p. 104). Mr. Kumlien also notes the occurrence near Oosooadluin Harbor 
of a bird he took to be a species of Pyrrhula , but as it was merely seen, 
and not captured, and the presence of the genus there seeming improbable, 
the record can evidently be accepted only with reservation. — J. A. A. 
Gibbs’s List of the Birds of Michigan.* — Although several 
prior lists of the birds of Michigan have appeared, the present one is a 
welcome addition to our knowledge of the ornithology of that State. Mr. 
Gibbs’s list enumerates 310 species and sub-species, and contains brief 
notes on their relative abundance, breeding, times of migration, etc. The 
region in question is ornithologically a too well-tilled field to lead one 
to expect many novelties, but the list is not without points of special 
interest. Although mainly based on the observations of the author, he 
expresses his indebtedness to other sources of information, and it would 
have added greatly to the interest of the list, if not a little to its value, if 
the authorities for the introduction of certain species and statements 
admittedly given at second hand had been cited ; and also if, in respect to 
certain species entered as breeding, it had been stated whether this relates 
to the State at large, or only to the “ upper peninsula ” in some cases, and 
to the “lower peninsula” in others, as, for example, the Winter Wren, 
Red-bellied Nuthatch, the Towhee Bunting, and several of the Warblers. 
This discrimination, it should be added, is in many cases clearly made. — 
J. A. A. 
Harvie-Brown on the Capercaillie in Scotland.! — The 
Capercaillie ( Tetrao urogcillus ), the finest of the Game Birds of Northern 
Europe, became extinct in Scotland prior to the beginning of the present 
century. As early as 1827 or 1828 some feeble attempts were made 
toward its restoration by the importation of a pair of these birds from 
Sweden, followed by a second importation of a single pair the year follow- 
ing. These efforts very naturally resulted unfavorably, but ten years 
later the matter was taken more vigorously in hand, when between forty 
and fifty birds were introduced in the years 1837 and 1838 to Taymouth, 
and turned down. This importation was to a high degree successful; 
the birds rapidly increased, and gradually spread to quite distant points, 
in some directions to upward of fifty miles within thirty years. They 
* Annotated List of the Birds of Michigan. By Dr. Morris Gibbs. Bull, 
of the U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Survey of the Territories, Vol. V, No. 3, pp. 481 - 
497. November 30, 1879. 
t The Capercaillie in Scotland. By J. A. Harvie-Brown, F. Z. S., Member 
of the British Ornithologists’ Union, etc. Edinburgh : David Douglas. 1879. 
8 vo, pp. i-xv, 1-155, map and pll. 
