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1857. Brewer, T, M. — Continued. 



The foregoing is the title of the work as it appears in the separate copies. 

 The fuller title of the work, as one of the papers of the Smithsonian Coiitribu- 

 tio7is, is, "North American Oology ; being an account of the geographical distri- 

 bution of the Birds of North America during their breeding season, with tigures 

 and descriptions of their eggs." The work was not continued beyond Pait I, 

 which treats of the Raptores and the " Fissirostres" (i. e., Coprinmlgidce, Hirun- 

 dinidce, Cypselidce, and Alcedinidce). The text is a general account of the habits, 

 to some extent, of the species during the breeding season, as well as of the sub- 

 jects mentioned in the full title, and includes a copious synonymy; no descrip- 

 tive, technical, or critical matter. Sixty species are treated, the eggs of 49 of 

 them being beautifully figured, printed in colors, and touched up by hand — 74 

 figures, on 5 plates — too many to be here i ecapitnlated. Only a small part of the 

 edition, however, is in colors; the regular ed. in the /S. /. Cont. being plain, 

 printed from another set of stones. The work is notable as the only purely 

 oological treatise of any extent as yet produced in America, and is the standard 

 as far as it goes. It contains a fair pioportion of blunders, most of which have 

 been exposed in the critiques the work has called forth from time to time, though 

 uo one has been more zealous than the author in setting them right. The egg 

 oi Buteo borealis 1 is figured tor th&t oi Astur atiicapillus ; ot Accipiter cooperi? 

 for that of Falco columbarius ; oi Rirundo lunifrons? for ihaXoi H.thalassiiia ; 

 and that figured as Archibuteo ferrugintus is doubtful. C/. Buewek, Am. Nat, i, 

 1867, pp. 121-123 , COUES, B. Colorado, i, 1878, 421. 



1857. Brewer, T. M. List and Descriptions of Eggs obtained in California 

 by E. Samuels. < Proc. Boston Soc. Nat, Hist., vi, 1857, pp. 145-149. 

 [See p. 66.] 

 Sixteen specimens. 



1857. Bryant, H. A list of Birds observed at Grand Manan and at Yar- 

 mouth, N. S., from June 16 to July 8, 1856. <^ Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., vi, 1857, pp. 114-123. [Continued by discussion, by several 

 ornithologists, on various ^joints relative to North American Orni- 

 thology, pp. 12:3-125.] 

 55 spp. ; fully annotated. 



1857. Bryant, H. [Remark on the early migration of certain American 

 Birds this year.] <:^ Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vi, 1857, p. 170. 



1857. Cassin, J. Notes on the North American species of Archibuteo and 

 Lanius, and description of a new species of Toucan, of the genus 

 Selenideia, Gould. <^Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., is, 1857, pp. 211-214. 

 Arctiibuteo, 3 spp. ; Lanius, 5 spp. ; Selenidera spectabilis, p. 214. 



1857. D'Ukban, W. S. M. Notes on the Land Birds observed round [sic] 

 Montreal during the winter of 1856-7. <^ Canad. Nat. tp- GeoL, ii, 

 1857, pp. 138-145. 

 Field-notes on a score of species. 



1857. D'Urban, W. S. M. Notice of the Occurrence of the Pine Grosbeak 

 and Bohemian Chatterer, near Montreal. < Canad. Nat. ^- Geol., i, 

 1857, pp. 46.5-472, tig. 

 More extended notice, with figure of the latter, by E. Billings, appended. 



1857. GiEBEL, C. G. Bemerkungen zu Vorigem [d. h. Vogel der Umgegend 

 Peorias in Illinois von Fr. Brendel] iiber Cathartes aura, Falco albi- 

 cilla, F. lagopus uud F. buteo. < Ztitschr. gesammt. Natitriv., is, 

 1857, pp. 426-433. 



,, Die vorstehendeu Mittheilungeu Herru Brendcls . . . veranlassen niich aus 

 Chr. L. Nitzscir liandschriftlicheni Naclilass hier die auatoiuischen Notizen 

 theils zur Ergiinzung, theils zur weitern Vergleichung der niichst verwandten 

 Arten anzuschlitssou.'' Vergl. 1857, Buexuel, F. 



