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1871. Ortox, J. Notes on some Birds in the Musenm of Vassar College. <] Amtr. Xat., 

 iv, No. 12, Feb., 1871, pp. 711-717. 



Observations on 50 or more spp., the greater part of the notes relating to neotropical hirds. 

 At time of writing, Vassar College contained nearly 1,200 spp., of which ahout 700 were X. 

 and 600 S. American; among them several type-specimens, and others of interest as the 

 originals of Audubon's plq^'S. 



1871. Orton, J. On the Condors and Humming-birds of the Equatorial Andes. 



< Ann. Ma(j. Xat. Hist., (4), viii, 1871, pp. 185-192. 



1871. Ortox, J. The Vultures and Humming Birds of Tropical America. < Canad. 

 Xat.c^- Quart. Jo urn., n. s., v, 1871, pp. 357-360. 

 Abstract of his paper in Aiiier. yat. 

 1871. SCLATER, p. L. On the Laud-birds of Juan Fernandez. < Ibis, 3d ser., i,lf71, 

 I^p. 178-183, pi. vii. 



Sketch of the islands; 6 spp., with comment. PI. vii, f 1, Ancerctes fernandezianus ; f. 2, 

 Oxyurus masafuerce. 



1871. SCLATER, P. L. Tlie Birds of the Lesser Antilles. < :\7(/«re, iv, 1871, pp. 473 . 



'Sot seen. 

 1871. SCLATER, P. L. [Extracts from Correspondence -with Mr. G. W. des Vceus con- 

 cerning the expediency of introducing Secretarius reptilivorus or Dacelo gigas 

 for destruction of the Rat-tailed Serpent of Santa Lucia (Trigouocephalns 

 lanceolatus). ] < P. Z! S. , xxxix, 1871, pp. 2-4. 

 1871. ScLATER, P. L. On the Birds of the Island of Santa Lucia, West Indies. <P. 

 Z. S., xxxix, 1871, iip. 263-273, jil. xxi. 



Summary of Antillean avifauna; 25 spp., variou.sly annotated. Icterus laudabilis, pi. xsi, 

 p. 270. 



1871. SCLATER, P. L. On the Birds of the Vicinity of Lima, Peru. . . . "With Notes 

 on their Habits ; by Prof. W. Nation, of Lima, C. M. Z. S.— Part IV. < /'. Z. S., 

 xxxix, 1871, pp. 496-498, lig. 

 Continued from P. Z. S., 1869, p. 148.— 5 spp. Euscarthmvsfitlvice2)S, p. 497, fig., .sp. n. 



1871. SCLATER, P. L. Remarks on a Collection of Birds from Oyapok [Cayenne]. 



< P. Z. S., xxxix, 1871, pp. 749, 750. 



Ochthocca murina, p. 749 ; Heteropelrna ignicepg, p. 7.50, spp. nn. Synopsis of 16 -f 3 spp. of 

 Ochthocca. 

 1871. SuxDEVALL, C. J. On Birds from the Galapagos Islands. < P. Z. S., xxxix, 

 1871, pp. 124-130, 



A list of 26 spp., of which two are new (Ardea plumbea, pp. 125, 127-129, and Sjiheniscits 

 mendieulus, pp. 129, 130; also a new variety of Ardea riolacea), obtained l)y the Swedish 

 ' Eugenie ' expedition in 1852. Remarks on the species allied to some of those recorded are 

 added. Some are noticed from the Galapagos for the first time. 



1871. Wyatt, C. W. Notes on some of the Birds of the Uuited States of Columbia. 



</fo(s, i, 1871, 3d ser. , pp. 113-131, pi. v (map), 319-335, 373-384. 

 Extended account of the region and route ; field-notes on 210 spp. ; map of author's journey. 

 1871-74. GuxDLAcn, J. Neue Beitriige zur Ornithologic Cubas. <.J.f. 0., xix, 1871, 

 pp. 265-295, 353-378 ; xx, 1872, pp. 401-432 ; xxii, 1874, pp. 113-166, 286-303. 



There arc literal discrepancies in the titles of the successive instalments. The first part is 

 wholly occupied with a review of what has been done on the subject, from Macleay (1827) to 

 the author himself (1865-60). The second begins The Eevised List of Cuban Birds. 



1872. Axox. Zoology of the Galapagos. < Pop. Sci. Monthly, Sept., 1872, pp. 633-G35. 



Various allusions to the birds. 

 1872. Editors. New Galapagos Birds. <^Am. Xat., vi, 1872, p. 38. 

 :Xotice of Scl. & Salv., P. Z. S., May, 1870, on Dr. Halxl's discoveries. 



1872. HUDSOX, W. H. On the Birds of the Rio Negro of Patagonia. With Notes by 

 P. L. Sclater. < P. Z. S., si, 1872, pp. 534-550, fig., pi. xxxi. 



Field-notes on 23 spp., technical names of most of which are supplied by Dr. Sclater. who 

 appends a nominal list of 48 spp. of the region, 7 of them peculiar to it.— Cnipolegns hiidsoni, 

 Scl., p. 541, pi. 31, sp. n. 



