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1869. SCLATER, P. L., and Salvin, O. On a Collection of Birds made by Mr. 

 H. S. le Strange near the City of Mexico. < P. Z. S., xxxvii, 1869, 

 pp. 361, 

 Critical notes on 15 of the 262 spp. in the collection. 



1869. SUMICHRAST, F. The Geographical Distribution of the Native Birds 

 of the Department of Vera Cruz, with a List of the migratory 

 species. By F. Sumichrast. Communicated to the Smithsonian 

 Institution, and published by permission of the Secretary. Trans- 

 lated from the French [MSS.], by T. M. Brewer. < Mem. Host. Soc. 

 Nat. ffisf., i, pt.iv.art. xvi,Mar. 1«69 (read Dec. 1868), pp. 542-563, 

 woodc. 1. (Issued seiJarately, 4to, paper. 



175 spp., fully annotated ; with resume giving lists of the species of the hot, 

 temperate, and alpine regions respectively; with a special note on habits of 

 Melanerpes formicivorus. Only land birds are treated. This article is the most 

 important one upon regional ornithology of Mexico. Qf. Zool. liec. for 1869, vi, 

 p. 48 ; Ibis, 1870, pp. 278-280. 



1869. Sumichrast, F. [Abstract of a paper on the geographical distribu- 

 tion of the native birds of the Department of Vera Cruz, Mexico.] 

 < Proc. Post. Soc. Nat. Hist., xii, 1869, pp. 222-225. 



Nominal list of 74 spp. of the hot region, 27 of the temperate region, 52 of the 

 alpine region. 



1869? Terrill, J. J. G. [Analytical chart of the Birds of Canada.] 



Not seen. Cf. Oanad. Nat. and Geol., n. s., iv, 1869, p. 101. "242 spp." 



1869. TURNBULL, W. p. The | Birds of East Pennsylvania j and New Jer- 

 sey I By I William P. Turnbull. LL. D. | Author of the "Birds of 

 East Lothian ;" | Member of the Academy cf Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia ; | Of the Lyceum of Natural History, New York ; | Cor- 

 responding Member of the Natural History Society of Glasgow, 

 etc. I [Illustration of Sturnella magna.] | Glasgow: Printed for pri- 

 vate circulation [by A. K. Murray «& Co.]. | 1869. 1 vol. roy. 8vo, 

 and also in 4to. pp. xii, 62, with 20 illustrations drawn on stone by 

 Frank Bott, some being from the portfolio of Alexander Wilson, 

 one of them bearing his autograph and date cf 1805. 



" The object of the writer has been to present in a simple and compact form 

 the Ornithology of a small portion of North America, comprising that part of 

 Pennsylvania eastward of the Alleghany Mountains, and of New Jersey, in- 

 cluding the coast line which extends from Saudy Hook to Cape May" (p. vii). 

 A catalogue of 342 spp. —114 summer visitants, 57 winter visitants, 60 mi- 

 grants, 52 residents, 59 stragglers — with field-notes of times of appearance, 

 breeding, relative frequency, etc. 



This is a sumptuous and elegant book — the best printed treatise on American 

 birds extant. One of my amanuenses, being set to the task, reported, " No typo- 

 graphical error found after close scrutiny." The book is scarce — there were 

 only 150 impressions of this lithographic edition, in 8vo (2 of them on vellum), 

 and 50 in 4to. The edition was bought up by J. Sabine & Sons, N. Y., who ad- 

 vertise the 4to copies at §4. There is an American ed., Philadelphia, Grambo 

 &. Co., same date, which I believe appeared before the presi'nt Glasgow ed. ; 

 the two differ in the words ")>opetue" and " virginianus"; but this is the only 

 textual discrepancy I have found. The work was edited by Robert Gray, of 

 Glasgow, though the fact does not appear. Cf. Ibis, 1870, 126, and Zool. Rec.for 

 1869, p. 49. 



