ß  Bqnapar.te,s ?asserculus anthinus is .from "Kacliak, Rhssian America:" Compte Rendu, Dec. 1.853, p. 920. It is compared With ?assercdus Maudinns, described on p. 918 from "California," as being very similar but with more slender beak, head suffused with y'el10x, and beneath pale rufescent, more spot- ted. It has been suggested that the. lo- calities of anthinus and alaudinus'might have'beeh, transposed (Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. ds.'I, I874, P. 539, foot-note.); but this idea is re- futed by Ridgway (Proc. U.S. N.M. VII, i884, p. 57, foot-note). However inapplicable Bonaparte's description may be to the race breeding on Kadiak Island, :'he fact that the type ostensibly came from there seems to 'make it desirable to use Bonaparte's name instead of xanthophrfs proposed bY.me in the CON)OR (III, Jan. I9O, p. 2i).. The Kadiak Savanna Sparrow therefore becomes tmmodramus sand- .wiche.n?is anthinus (Bonaparte). ,. JosEPH GRINNELL.