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1875. Flagg, W.— Continued. 



this latter ability make one quite an "extraordinary pedant" (seep. 288). The 

 delightful treatise may touch elbows on the shelf with Burroughs's Wake Robin ; 

 they both refresh and recreate whom the galling of the technic-harness has 

 made sore. 



1875. GAitBNER, DoRSEY. Wilsou the Ornithologist. < Svribner's Monthly, 

 xi, 1875, pp. 690-70.3 ; four illustrations. 

 Biographical notice of Alexander Wilson. 



1875. Gaumer, G. F. Ornithological notes [upon 12 spp. of Kansas birds, 

 with list of 36 other spj). observed Mar. 13,1875]. < Observer of 

 Nature (newspaper), Mar. 24, 1875. 



1875. Grinnell, G. B. Engineer Department, U. S. Army. | — | Report I of 

 a I Reconnaissance | of the | Black Hills of Dakota, | made in | the 

 summer of 1874. | By William Ludlow, | Captain of Engineers, Bvt. 

 Lieut. Colonel U. S. Army, | Chief Engineer Department of Da- 

 kota. I — I Washington : | Government Printing Office. | 1875. 1 

 vol. 4to. pp. 121. > Zoological Report. By George Bird Grin- 

 nell. Chap. IL Birds, pp. 85-102. 



Consists of excellent field-notes on the birds observed on the expedition, 110 in 

 number, being a large majority of those inhabiting the locality. 



1875. Grinnell, G. B. The Frigate Bird [Tachypetes aquila] and White 



Ibis [Ibis alba] in Connecticut. < Am. Nat., is. No. 8, Aug., 1875, 



p. 470. 

 1875. " H." The Close Season for Game Birds. < Bod and Gun, vi, May 15, 



1875, p. 106. 

 Facts concerning growth and habits of game-birds ; see also letter " Times and 



Seasons " on the same page, and much elsewhere. 



1875. Harting, J. E. The Fauna | of the | Prybilov Islands | abridged from 

 the I " Report on the Prybilov Group or Seal Islands of Alaska," | 

 by Henry W. Elliott ; with an Appendix on the | Ornithology by 

 Dr. Elliott Coues (Washington, la73). | By J, E. Harting, F. L. S. 

 F. Z. S. I London | reprinted Irom the Natural History columns of | 

 " The Field " for private circulation | 1«75 Pamph. pp. 38, pi. 1. 



Aves, pp. 15-36, thus occupying the greater part of this excellent digest of the 

 original. Tringa ptilocnemis Couea (=^ T. gracilis Hart.) is rediscussed. The pi. 

 (from P. Z. S.) shows bill, feet, and tail of this species, and of T. alpina and T. 

 crassirostris. See the original, 1873, Coues, E. 



1875. Henshaw, H. W., and Aiken, C. E. Annual Report | upon the | Geo- 

 graphical Explorations and Surveys west of the | one hundredth 

 meridian, in California, Nevada, | Nebraska, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, 

 New I Mexico, Wj^oming, and Montana, by George M. Wheeler, | 

 First Lieutenant of Engineers, U. S. A. ; | being | Appendix L L | of 

 the I Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1>75. | — | 

 Washington : | Government Printing Office. | 1875. 8vo. pp. i-iv, 1 

 1., pp. 1-196, maps, views, etc. ]> App. I 1, I 2, pp. 139-166. 



This publication contains three ornithological papers, namely: — "Notes upon 

 the Ornithology of the liegion traversed ", by Mr. Ilenshaw, pp. 1-li), 150, relating 

 to Kew Mexico and Arizona ; " Notes on the Ornithology observed by Mr. C. E. 

 Aiken, assistant", pp. 150-153, relating to Colorado; and, especially, an "Anno- 

 tated List of the Birds of Arizona", by Mr. lleushaw. The latter treats of 

 "291 " (i. e., 293) spp., and is by far the most conii)lete enumeration extant, besides 

 being fully annotated with field-notes of local distribution, abundance or scarcity, 

 times of appearance, etc. The breeders are marked with an asterisk. The list 



