320 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



sympathetic nerves of the color cells. 15 A, Pr.Brit. Assoc, 

 August 31, 1872, 275. 



MAYNARD ON THE BIRDS OF FLORIDA. 



The first part of a work on the birds of Florida, by Mr. C. 

 J. Maynard, of Massachusetts, has just appeared from the 

 press of the American Naturalists' Agency at Salem, and it is 

 to be followed by eleven others to complete the series. The 

 work is in quarto and well printed, and accompanied by one 

 plate, five plates being promised for the entire series. 



Mr. Maynard is well known as an able, indefatigable or- 

 nithologist, and is especially familiar with the birds of New 

 England and of Florida, having spent several successive win- 

 ters in the latter state with a view of collecting information 

 for his proposed book. 



After a brief diagnosis of the higher group of birds, Mr. 

 Maynard takes up each species known to occur in Florida in 

 detail, and supplies a very well-written account of habits 

 and peculiarities, interweaving the observations of others 

 with his own original matter wherever the latter is at all 

 deficient in detail. 



This work promises to be a fit comj^anion to that of Mr. J. 

 A. Allen, although going very much more into particulars as 

 to the habits of the species. Both gentlemen have done a 

 great deal toward extending our knowledge of the birds of 

 Florida, and in determining with great precision the pecul- 

 iarities of the various local races. Mr. Maynard has increased 

 the list of Florida birds by one new variety of Pipilo, and 

 by a diminutive West India finch {Phonipara zena). 



Other West Indian, or rather Bahaman, birds previously 

 detected were the Vireosylvia barbatida, the Certhiola baha- 

 me?isis, and the Crotophaga ani. 



From the far West, Florida, according to Mr. Maynard, re- 

 ceives as winter residents the red-breasted teal of the west 

 coast (Querquedida cyanoptera) and the Rocky Mountain 

 plover (^Egialitis montana). To these are to be added the 

 yellow-headed blackbird (JCanthocephalus icterocephalus) , and 

 the lark finch (Chondestes grammacd), which have been sent 

 to the Smithsonian Institution from that state by its corre- 

 spondents. In conclusion, we may state that the book of Mr. 

 Maynard will be found indispensable to all those who desire 



