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stock the West, provided that laws, sufficiently stringent to give them* 

 fair protection, be at once enacted." 



Page 341. 

 "Pinnated Grous." 



The typical "Grouse plains" of New Jersey cover a very limited tract 

 between VVoolmansie and Cedar Bridge, near the boundary line of Ocean < 

 and Burlington Counties. The diameter of this area varies from three 

 to five miles. The pines and oaks here rarely attain a maximum height 

 of four feet. Turnbull mentions the extinction of the Heath Hen in- 

 New Jersey as having occurred about 1869. 



Page 357. 



Of all the Reptiles enumerated in Ord's table of "Amphibia" and' 

 which, it should be observed, he restricts to the "Zoology of the United 

 States, " about ten per cent, are Mexican or South American, three or 

 four are exotic and two or more unidentifiable. Prof. E. D. Cope, after 

 careful inspection of the table, informs me that all of the newly named 

 species to which sufficient reference is made in the text to merit exam- 

 ination, are-either synonyms or unidentifiable. 



Note on Changes in Nomenclature. 



Owing to unforseen delays in the publication of this work, the sum- 

 mary of changes in nomenclature here proposed, which was announced 

 on page i of the Appendix, to be given in this place, was published in the 

 American Naturalist, June 1894, pp. 523-526. To this the critical reader 

 is referred. 



