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Sept., 1917 BOTTA'S VISIT TO CALIFORNIA 161 to Monterey. Beethey then sailed for Monterey and spent five days (Jan. 1-5, 1827) at that port. On his second visit late in the same year, 1827, he remained three weeks (Oct. 29-Nov. 17) at Monterey, and two weeks (Nov. 19-Dec. 3) at San Francisco. It was during these two visits that the surgeon Dr. Collie collected the California birds which were brought back by the expedition. Thus Botta arrived at San Francisco just a month after Beechey had left that port the first time, and he was absent on his trip to Peru during Beechey's sec- ond visit. The material obtained by Botta was important and formed the basis of the descriptions of several new species. Immediately upon his return to France in the summer of 1829 some of his birds evidently passed into the possession of the Duke of Rivoli as Lesson mentions that the specimens of the hummingbird and the roadrunner which he described that year were contained in the Rivoli col- lection and were brought back by Botta. These specimens were not labeled with the exact localities where they were obtained and consequently it is i?nportant to ascertain as accurately as possible where they were collected. The type localities of the Roadrunner and Anna Hummingbird are given simply as California in the A. O. U. 'Check-List' of 1910, but it is now possible to de- termine them more accurately. It is probable that the Roadrunner was col- lected in southern California, and, from the places mentioned above, the type locality may reasonably be assumed as the vicinity of Los Angeles or San Diego. Similarly, San Francisco may be accepted as the type loeality of Calypte anna since Botta collected here longer than at other places and in the narrative of the voyage hummingbirds are especially mentioned among the birds obtained there in February, 1827. The narrative of the voyage of the 'Heros"by Capt. Duhaut-Cilly was pub- lished in Paris in 1834-35 under the title 'Voyage autour du Monde'. In 1837 an Italian translation in which were incorporated some notes by Botta was ?nade by his father, Carlo Botta, the eminent Italian historian, and appeared under the title 'Viaggio intorno al Globo' in at least two editions, one published in Turin in 1841, and the other in Naples in 1842. A copy of the Turin edition of the 'Viaggio' is in the Library of Congress in Washington and a copy of the Naples edition is in the collection of Californiana in the Los Angeles Public Library. These works should be carefully examined to see whether they throw any further light on the California eollections made by Botta. Washington, D.C., July 8, 1917. SOME BIRDS OF' THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS, TEXAS By AUSTIN PAUL SMITH HIS article deals with the more interesting of the hundred or more species of birds met with during a six weeks' trip (September 2 to October 1.6, 1916) to the Davis Mountains. This is the most accessible of the several small ranges which lie between the Pecos River and the Rio Grande, in western Texas. Leaving the Southern Pacific Railway at Marfa, Texas, one goes by auto-stage twenty-two miles to Fort Davis. This little town, charmingly situ- ated at the very base of the mountains, at an altitude of slightly over 5000 feet, is distant about a mile from the opening of Limpia canyon, the principal