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new Sharp-tailed Grouse from Arctic America, described by Dr. 

 Suckley in 1861 as P. kennicottii, is the true Tetrao phasianella 

 of Linngeus, and must consequently bear the specific name ori- 

 ginally imposed upon it by the illustrious Swede. The Sharp- 

 tailed Grouse of the northern prairies of the United States, 

 from Wisconsin to Oregon and Washington Territories, will in 

 future stand as P. columbianus, being the Phasianus columbianus 

 of Ord, in Guthrie's Geography. The two forms appear to be 

 easily distinguishable. 



We are indebted to Mr. Lawrence for early copies of two 

 recent ornithological papers which he has contributed to the 

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

 the first of these the author characterizes six new species of 

 birds, — a Cuban Plover [JEgialitis tenuirostris) allied to jE. me- 

 lodus, four Humming-birds, and a Brazilian Night-jar {Stenopsis 

 maculicaudus) . Two of the Humming-birds [Thalurania lucite 

 and Chlorostilbon insularis) are from Tres Marias Islands, on the 

 Pacific coast of Mexico (21° 30' N.L.). Three other species 

 were obtained by Mr. Xantus (who collected the former also) in 

 the same islands — namely, Florisuga mellivora, Cyanomyia guate- 

 malensis, and Petasophora thalassina. Mr. Lawrence's second 

 paper is a " third list " of the extensive collections of birds made 

 by Mr. M<=Leannan on the Isthmus of Panama. There are 

 many descriptions of novelties given, besides notes, corrections, 

 and additions to the former articles on the same subject. A 

 beautiful Dacnis, which Mr. Lawrence characterizes as D. ve- 

 nusta, has been kindly promised to us for illustration in this 

 Journal ; and the Parrot, formerly considered as referable to 

 Pionus hcematotis, is now discovered to be quite different from 

 the Guatemalan bird, the male bearing rather a broad collar of 

 bright scarlet. It is proposed to be called P. coccineicollaris. In 

 this and his former papers on the same subject, Mr. Lawrence 

 has done real good service to ornithology ; for the Avi-fauna of 

 Panama was previously quite unknown to naturalists. 



We have, in a previous Number, noticed some of the ornitho- 

 logical articles in the eighth volume of the ' Proceedings of the 



