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species, which must now be included in our Fauna in place of D. enicura. 
At the time of my first examination I had no specimen of the female of G. 
lucifer, and w\as misled by the general similarity of coloring of the two 
species, especially the distribution of colors in the tail, both having it 
rufous at base, black in the middle, and white at the end ; D. enicura has the 
tail-feathers narrower, and the rufous on their bases rather more in extent. 
The females of Calothorax pulchra and of Myrtis fannice closely resemble 
the same sex of the species spoken of above in general plumage, and in 
having their tails of the same pattern of coloration. In many allied forms 
among the Trocliilidce, the females resemble each other so much that a 
satisfactory determination of them is quite difficult, except with authentic 
examples of the different species to compare with. — Geo. N. Lawrence, 
New York City. 
' Occurrence of the Black Vulture or Carrion Crow in Ohio. — 
On or about December 20, 1876, I came upon three individuals of this 
species {Gathartes atratus, Less.), feeding on the carcass of a hog, in a 
wooded ravine near Madisonville] ; one of them I shot at and wounded, but 
lost sight of it in the woods, and the other two remained in the immediate 
vicinity long enough to give me an excellent opportunity to observe their 
peculiarities of form and flight, although I could not approach within 
gunshot of them. On January 1, 1877, however, I found a specimen that 
had been killed a few days previous, in the same locality, by Mr. Edwin 
Leonard, of Madisonville, under circumstances rendering it probable that it 
was the one I had wounded ; its skin is now in my collection. 
The occurrence of this bird in Ohio, or in fact anywhere in the Missis- 
sippi Valley north of the Ohio Kiver, has heretofore rested solely on 
Audubon’s account of its range, which has been quoted by all subsequent 
waiters ; and, being essentially a southern species, its capture here, at a 
time when the Ohio Eiver was frozen over and the ground covered with 
several inches of snow, seems worthy of remark. I have identified this 
species here satisfactorily to 'myself, on two previous occasions, both in 
winter, but have never seen the “Turkey Buzzard’* {C. aura) at that season, 
although it is quite common during the summer. — Frank W. Langdon. 
Occurrence op the Western Nonpareil and Berlandier’s Wren 
AT Fort Brown, Texas. — Dr. J. C. Merrill, U. S. A., in a recent letter 
to the writer, says : “ I have recently (April 23 and 24, 1877) taken two 
fine males of Cyanospiza versicolcyr, a bird new to onr Fauna, although 
included in Baird, Brewer, and Kidgway’s ‘ History of North American 
Birds.’ I have also heard and seen several others. They frequent ines- 
quite chaparral, and betray themselves by their notes, which somewhat 
resemble those of G. cyanea. Berlandier’s Wren {Thrijothorus ludovicianus 
var. herlandieri), also new, but included in Baird, Brewer, and Kidgway’s 
work, I find to be a rather common visitant.” Dr. Merrill also states that 
