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From New York Mr. Elliot sends us remarks, reprinted from 
the f Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York ’ 
for January 1862, on the occurrence of Barrow’s Golden-eye 
[Bucephala islandica) within the limits of the United States. 
After noticing that several European species of Ducks had, within 
a few years past, been obtained in the New York market (namely, 
the English Widgeon, English Teal, and others), Mr. Elliot 
states that several examples of the Golden-eye had recently been 
found exposed for sale in Washington market, in company with 
specimens of the American Golden-eye ( Bucephala americana ), 
and proceeds to point out, with details, the differences between the 
two species. 
At Philadelphia Mr. Cassin gives, in the f Proceedings of the 
Academy of Natural Sciences/ a “ Catalogue of the Birds 
collected by the U.S. North-Pacific Surveying and Exploring 
Expedition, in command of Capt. John Rodgers.” The collec¬ 
tion, which embraces 163 species, was made in different parts of 
the world—South Africa, China, Japan, and Western America. 
One of the most interesting localities visited appears to have 
been the Island of Tombaro, or New Ireland, where the follow¬ 
ing birds were obtained :— 
Lamprotornis metallicus. Carpophaga van-wyckii, 
Ecleclus linncei. sp. nov. 
Ecledus polychlorus. Carpophaga luduosa. 
The series of sea-birds, especially of those of the Northern 
Pacific, appears to have been particularly fine, embracing such 
rarities as Uria carbo, Pall., Uria arra , Pall., Phaleris pusilla 
(Pall.), and a new large Petrel allied to Fulmarus glacialis, 
which Mr. Cassin calls Fulmarus rodgersii, from the South 
Indian Ocean. Mr. Cassin promises us further notes and figures 
of the more remarkable species when the part of Commodore 
Rodgers’s Report relating to Natural History is published. 
In the same number of the f Proceedings of the Academy of 
Philadelphia’ (p. 404), Mr. Elliott Coues describes the adult 
dress of JEchmophorus clarkii, one of the Grebes included in his 
previous Synopsis of the family, of which we spoke in our last 
Number [anted, p. 107). 
