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the birds collected on the survey of the 32nd parallel, by 

 Dr. A. L. Heerman : (4.) Upon the birds collected during the 

 explorations in California, by Dr. A. L. Heerman. It is a pity, 

 the plates, which are nicely done, are not marked with the names 

 of the species figured, as this omission causes so much trouble 

 in reference. 



For information concerning the first volume of Dr. Brewer's 

 valuable work on N. American Oology, we refer our subscribers 

 to the Review of this and Herr Badeker's work given above, 

 which has been furnished to us by one of our most valued 

 correspondents. 



The Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution for the year 1858 contains (p. 153) the "Instructions 

 in reference to collecting nests and eggs of North American 

 Birds," which we have before alluded to ; also (p. 280) a " List 

 of the Birds of Nova Scotia," compiled, from notes by Lieut. 

 Blakiston, R.A., and Lieut. Bland, R.E., made in 1852-1855, 

 by Prof. J. R. Willis of Halifax ; and a " List of the Birds of 

 Bermuda," by Lieut. Bland, both useful as local lists. 



We have received a separate copy of a paper entitled " Cata- 

 logue of Birds collected in the vicinity of Fort Teyon, California, 

 with a description of a new species of Syrnium," extracted from 

 the Proceedings of the Academy of Nat. Sc. of Philadelphia for 

 July last. The new Syrnium is S. occidentale, of the general 

 appearance of S. nebulosum, of which, we suppose, it is the 

 Western representative. 



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Since the date of our last Number, another member of our 

 Ornithologists' Union has left England to take up his residence 

 in a foreign land. Mr. Edward Newton, having received the 

 appointment of Assistant Colonial Secretary at the Mauritius, 

 started by the Overland route on the 16th of August last, and, 

 by the time this announcement is read, will, we hope, have safely 

 arrived at his destination. Though there has been a ' Societe 



