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BULLETIN OF THE NUTTALL 
the kindness of the author we have received advance sheets of the above- 
cited j)aper, shortly to be issued under the auspices of the Connecticut 
Academy, as the first of a proposed series on the Fauna of that State. 
Since the appearance of Linsley’s “ Catalogue of the Birds of Connec- 
ticut ” in 1843, no detailed enumeration of the birds of that State has 
been published. Hence the ad^^ent of Mr. Merriam’s paper must be hailed 
with interest by all engaged in the study of New England Ornithology. 
The author gives in all two hundred and ninety-two species. Of these 
he arranges under special lists in tabular form, one hundred and thirty-five 
as “ summer residents ” ; twenty which probably breed occasionally, but are 
not known to do so ; forty-one resident species ; ninety migrants ; sixty- 
seven winter visitants ; thirty-one irregular summer visitants ; forty-six 
rare accidental visitants ; and nineteen rare and irregular visitants. Fol- 
lowing these is a tabulated analysis of Linsley’s Catalogue, in which he 
eliminates sixty-three species given by that author on apparently insuf- 
ficient authority, though many of these are afterwards included by Mr. 
Merriam upon more recent and tangible evidence. The Avifauna of Con- 
necticut, though essentially Alleghanian in character, has been long known 
to embrace many Carolinian forms, but the relative extent of this ‘‘ tinge,” 
geographically as well as specifically, has been considerably developed by 
Mr. Merriam’s careful researches. Thus, upon unimpeachable authority 
are given as birds of Connecticut, Dendro&ca dominica, Loijhojjhanes bicolor, 
Oporornis formosus, Gardinalis virginianus, Empidonax acadicus, and Cen- 
turus carolinus, while, singularly enough, several species knowm only in the 
more northern New' England States as spring and fall migrants have been 
found breeding. In the careful elaboration of interesting details culled 
from personal experience and the note-books of well-knowui and trust- 
worthy field collectors, this paper is most rich. Indeed, if we may be 
permitted to qualify otherwise undiluted praise by a little censure, we 
should say that a judicious summarizing of data and incident would divest 
this paper of a great deal of unnecessary cumbersomeness. Still, it is 
perhaps better to err in this direction than in the other and too common 
one, and Mr. Merriam certainly deserves much credit for his arduous 
labors. — W. B. 
Note on Doricha enicura (Vieill.). — About two years ago Mr. H. 
W. Henshaw submitted some birds to me for determination, among which 
was the female of a species of Humming-Bird obtained by him in Arizona, 
which I considered to be Doricha enicura, and it is so recorded in United 
States Geographical Survey W. of 100th Meridian, Vol. V, Chap. III. On 
a re-examination lately made, I find it was not properly referred, and a 
comparison with the female of Calothorax lucifer (Sw\) shows it to be that 
