Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Bachmans warblers; Lewisswoodpecker; Clarks nutcracker; Stellers and Woodhouses jays, andmany others of early and recent date. Louisiana, as applied to the species of tanager {Piranga ludo-viciana), and the water thrush {Seiurus motacilla) refers to the ENGLISH NAMES OF AMERICAN BIEDS TROTTER. 519 region embraced in the Louisiana Purchase, not to the present Stateof that name. Florida, Canada, California, Hudsonian,and other regional names have in like manner been applied to certainspecies, as Florida jay, Canada jay, Canad
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Bachmans warblers; Lewisswoodpecker; Clarks nutcracker; Stellers and Woodhouses jays, andmany others of early and recent date. Louisiana, as applied to the species of tanager {Piranga ludo-viciana), and the water thrush {Seiurus motacilla) refers to the ENGLISH NAMES OF AMERICAN BIEDS TROTTER. 519 region embraced in the Louisiana Purchase, not to the present Stateof that name. Florida, Canada, California, Hudsonian,and other regional names have in like manner been applied to certainspecies, as Florida jay, Canada jay, Canadian warbler, Cali-fornia woodpecker, Hudsonian chickadee, and so forth. The matter as presented in the foregoing sketch does not pretendto list all of the species and varieties of North American land is only a sketch or outline of a most attractive subject and waswritten partly for the purpose of gathering together what knowledgewe have of the history and origin of our more familiar bird °—SM 1909 34 Smithsonian Report, 1909.—Grant. Plate Great Brown Bear of the Alaskan Peninsula (Ursus qyas Merriam). NationalZoological Park, Washington, D. C. Weight March 21, 1908, 1,050 Pounds. CONDITION OF WILD LIFE IN ALASKA. [With 1 plate.] By Madison Grant. The opening of the twentieth century found the game in the oldterritories of the United States well on the road toward the condi-tions that precede extinction. The bison had been practically gonefor two decades. The mountain sheep had been exterminatedthroughout a very large part of its original range, and the numberremaining in remote mountains was sadly reduced. The wapiti,while still living in herds numbering many thousand, was rapidlywithdrawing to the vicinity of its last refuge, the Yellowstone prong-horn of the plains was disappearing with increasingrapidity, partly due to the increasing use of the barb-wire fences onits former ranges. This rapid diminution of the game animals of the United
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