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specimen^ it is the most southern locality for this bird hitherto 

 recorded. Messrs. A. and E. Newton have, however, noticed it 

 in St. Croix (Ibis, 1859, p. 63), Mr. Cottle procured a specimen 

 (now in the British Museum) in S. Nevis, and Mr. Salvin (Ibis, 

 1859, p. 219) records the occurrence of a "single example" at 

 Duenas ; so it is not such a great step further south. 



Of Foreign States (still following the arrangement of the 

 Catalogue), Africa, whether Central or Westei-n, is for once 

 false to her old character, and has no ornithological wonder to 

 show. Belgium and Brazil, China and Costa Rica, are equally 

 devoid of objects to be here noticed. Denmark escapes only by 

 some zoological drawings for educational purposes, exhibited by 

 Ilerr J. C. Thornam (Subclass 29. B, No. 241). 



The extensive area occupied by the French department con- 

 tains several noteworthy objects to the ornithologist. Entering 

 from Italy, a large series of well-mounted birds meets our eyes 

 as they stand well arranged on the shelves to our left hand. 

 There is, first (886), a series of the principal types of mammals 

 and bii'ds considered to be useful and hurtful to agriculture 

 in France. These specimens are borrowed, we believe, from 

 the galleries of the Jardin des Plantes. They are all 

 correctly named and labelled, and were, as we are informed, 

 selected for the purpose by M. Florent-Prevost, Aide-Naturaliste 

 to the Museum of Natural History of that establishment, — a 

 name well known in the literature of ornithology. The same 

 gentleman exhibits (885) a very interesting series of the dried 

 contents of the stomachs of the principal birds of France, 

 arranged in order, with the object of showing the nature of 

 their food. Each specimen is marked with the date at which it 

 was obtained, and, as an accurate register has been kept of the 

 birds' stomachs examined in this way for the last twenty-four 

 years (of which a specimen page is shown below), the resume 

 gives a very fair notion of the nature of the sustenance of the 

 birds of France in all seasons, and affords a base upon which 

 they may be divided into the two catalogues of utiles and 

 nuisibles. There is, besides, a collection of the game of the three 

 different regions into which France is divided agriculturally, 

 illustrated by specimens from the same source as those mentioned 



