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We use the CfA Redshift Survey of galaxies with mᵦ_ = 2500 km s^-1^, where the effects of peculiar velocities are small, the luminosity function is well represented by a Schechter function with parameters phi}_*_ = 0. 04 +/- 0. 01 Mpc^-3^, M_*_ = - 18. 8 +/- 0. 3 and α = - 1. 0 +/- 0. 2. When we include all galaxies with cz >= 500 km s^-1^, the number of galaxies in the range -16 <= MZ_ <= -13 exceeds the extrapolation of the Schechter function by a factor of 3. 1 +/- 0. 5. This faint-end excess is not caused by the local peculiar velocity field but may be partially explained by small scale errors in the Zwicky magnitudes. Even with a scale error as large as 0. 2 mag mag^-1^, which is unlikely, the excess is still a factor of 1. 8 +/- 0. 3. If real, this excess affects the interpretation of deep counts of field galaxies.
Marzke et al. (Wed,) studied this question.