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Introduction Mr. Elliot rejects Lagopus persicus as a species, 

 and, as we also think rightly, he considers L. rupestris to in- 

 clude the so-called L. americanus of Audubon, the L. reinhardti 

 and L. groenlandicus of Brehm, and the L. islandorum of Faber. 

 Whether L. hyperboreus (or, as we prefer to term it, L. hemileu- 

 curus) should not also be referred to this species, is a point on 

 which we have before stated our opinion (Ibis, 1865, p. 504) ; 

 but counting it, as well as L. scoticus, we find that, out of the 

 twenty-two supposed species of Grouse, fourteen inhabit the New 

 World, while ten occur in the Old World, and only two are 

 common to both regions : and, again, taking the genera in which 

 our author disposes them, we have five peculiar to the Nearctic 

 Uegion, three to the Palfearctic, and two common to both; so 

 that, if there be any truth in Mr. Wallace's theory. Grouse have 

 had their origin in America. While congratulating our good 

 friend on the completion of this work, we are happy to announce 

 that he has another monograph in a forward state of prepara- 

 tion, the subject of which is the beautiful family of Phasianida. 



In the ' Annals ' of the New York Lyceum of Natural History 

 for 1865 Mr. Lawrence has three papers, in the course of which 

 he describes as new a dozen birds from Central America. These 

 are Spermophila hicksi and S. fortipes from Panama, S. badii- 

 ventris from Greytown, and S. collaris from Chiriqui, Formici- 

 vora schisticolor, Mitrephorus aiirantiiventris, and Elainea frantzii 

 from Costa Rica, besides two other species of the last-named 

 genus from Chiriqui, which the author calls respectively E. chi- 

 riquensis and E. semiflava, with Thryothorus brunneus, Synallaxis 

 nigrifumosa, and Thamnuphilus hollandi from Greytown. The 

 papers also contain an enumeration of, with a few remarks on, 

 two collections from Chiriqui and Greytown, the first, containing 

 thirty-nine species, formed by Mr. Frederick Hicks, and the 

 second, containing sixty-one species, formed by Mr. H. E. 

 Holland. 



