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' Conspectus Generum Avium ' to refer to for the determination 

 of the species, and Mr. Elliot's work will be of great assistance 

 to science in this way. When the plates are finished, we hope 

 that a good analysis of the geographical distribution of the spe- 

 cies will not be omitted. We may remark that Coslogtjne jn-fEcox, 

 belonging, as we believe, to the epiphytous Orchidacea, should 

 not have been placed on the ground, as Mr. Elliot has depicted 

 it in the plate of Pitta concinna ! 



Mr. J. M. Wheaton (of Columbus, Ohio) has prepared a " Cata- 

 logue of the Birds of Ohio " for the ' Ohio Agricultural Report 

 for I860,' of which we have received a separate copy through 

 the kindness of some of our American correspondents. It fol- 

 lows Prof. Baird's classification, and will be useful as a local list 

 of names, containing likewise an appendix of notes and remarks. 



The ' Canadian Naturalist and Geologist ' * is, we are glad to 

 say, progressing very satisfactorily under the conducting care of 

 a Committee appointed by the Natural-History Society of 

 Montreal. 



No. 4 contains a catalogue of the Birds collected and observed 

 around Lakes Superior and Huron in 1860, by Robert Bell, re- 

 printed from the Report of the Geological Survey for 1860. The 

 list is somewhat meagre, and the nomenclature not always per- 

 fect ; but as regards the first point, the country, as we can afiirm 

 from personal experience, is rather poor ornithologically. Did 

 Mr. Bell never meet with the Tetrao jjhasianellus? On the 

 upper branches of the St. Croix river, in the outskirts of the 

 forest, we found it tolerably abundant in 1856— and venj good to 

 eat ! 



No. 5 contains Mr. Geo. Barnston's recollections of the Swans 

 and Geese of Hudson's Bay, which have already appeared in 

 ' The Ibis,' and an article by Mr. Vernon on the Wood- Warblers 

 found in the vicinity of Montreal. 



* The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, and Proceedings of the Na- 

 tural-History Society of Montreal. Montreal, 18G1. Parts 1 — 5. 



