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1857 he expected to be on the Amur, whence we beheve he has 

 already forwarded many interesting birds. 



4. American Publications. 



Prof. Baird of Philadelphia has reissued his " Index to tlie 

 General Report on N. American Birds," noticed in our last 

 number, in the shape of a " Catalogue of North American Birds, 

 chiefly in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution." In this 

 shape it forms a convenient list of the birds of the northern 

 portion of the New World. We haye also received from Pro- 

 fessor Baird the sheets of the second volume of the ' Report of 

 the United States^ and Mexican Boundary Survey,' relating to 

 the birds collected by the expedition. There are many useful 

 notes on their localities, habits, &c. from the pens of Dr. Ken- 

 nerly, Lieut, Couch, and other well-known observers. This 

 Report is intended to be illustrated with 23 coloured plates of 

 the rarer species. 



Pagers ' La Plata, the Argentine Confederation and Paraguay ; 

 being a narrative of the exploration of the tributaries of the 

 river La Plata and adjacent countries during the years 1853-56 

 under the orders of the U. S. Government,' contains, in the 

 Appendix (p. 599), "Notes on the birds collected by the La 

 Plata expedition," by Mr. Cassin. Mr. Cassin pronounces the 

 collection to be " one of the most interesting ever made in 

 South America," and to contain "numerous birds not before 

 known." We hope, therefore, that he intends to give us a 

 more complete account of it than is contained in the three 

 pages devoted to these rather unsatisfactory notes. We shall 

 gladly welcome such a useful contribution to South American 

 ornithology. 



The concluding sheets of the ' Proceedings of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia' for last year contain a " Cata- 

 logue of Birds, collected by A. A. Henderson at Hakodadi, 

 Island of Jesso, Japan, with Notes and Descriptions of Species, 

 by John Cassin." Thirty-one species are mentioned, among 

 which are tw'o novelties of the family Sylviida, namely Lusci- 

 niopsis japonica and L. hendersonii. Mr. Cassin promises us an 



