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“ Fork-tailed Flycatcher.” 
Our article last month on this rare I'ly- 
catclier had no ^ooner been mailed than 
we began to receive letters calling attention 
to the fact that a serious mistake h id been 
made. I he article came tons as Fork.- 
T ui.F.n Fi.ycatcher {Afi/iuhts forfiiatus'. 
a mixture of names, and we S) wrote Mr. 
Nchrling, but me aiticle was published be- 
lurehis reply reached us. We much regret 
sin h mistakes, and to show our readers the 
imjioit ince of exercising gieat cate, we pub¬ 
lish ii\e criticisms as received elsewhere. 
.-Vs we are cummencing a new volume let us 
all cxercis'' great care and see if we cannot 
get through tw elve ' numbers without the 
w ord “Correctioi” appearing in volume VII. 
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‘‘The Coues Check list 
of Norili .Vmerican Birds second edi¬ 
tion), with a Dictionary of the Etymology, 
Orthography and Orthoepy of the S ientitic 
Names revised to date and entirely re-written 
by the author (i88z ” It is generally un¬ 
derstood that we can have Imt one check¬ 
list and the one emanating from the Smith¬ 
sonian w ill be the recognized list, 'fhis is 
not a m itter of choice, but of necessity. If 
the list before us w as merely .i changing of 
