440 Messrs. Salvin and Sclater's Index to the 



tion to the European list in Thuringia in 1870. [But see Dr. 

 Cabanis^s opinion of these birds, J. f. 0. p. 154, and p. 236.] 



Labouchere, H. M., and Jesse, W. 



Bird-life. Bij Dr. A. E. Brehm. Translated from the German. 



London : 1871. Parts i., ii., iii. Large 8vo. 

 V. antea, p. 193. 



Lanen, — . 



Domestication des Autruches au Cap. Bull. Soc. d'Accl. 

 1871, pp. 524-527. 



Lawrence, Geo. N. 



1 . Descriptions of new Species of Birds from Mexico, Central 

 America, and South America, with a Note on Rail us longi- 

 rostris. Ann. Lye. N. Y. x. pp. 1-21 (1871). 



The new species collected on the Island of Socorro, the Tres 

 Marias Islands, and at Mazatlan by the late Col. A.J.Grayson are 

 here described, with the collector's notes, as follows, viz. : — from 

 Socorro " Harporhynchus graysoni, Baird,'' " Troglodytes insu- 

 laris, Baird," Pipilo carmani, Conurus holochlorus, var. hrevipes, 

 and Zenaidura graysoni; from the Tres Marias Is., Pa7'ula insu- 

 laris ; from Mazatlan, Attila cinnamomeus. The following species 

 are described from other localities : — Cistothorus cequatorialis from 

 Pichincha, Ecuador; Hamophila sumichrasti ivom Juchitan (err. 

 Tuchitan), Tehuantepec, Mexico ; Todirostrum superciliare and 

 Elainea macilvainii from Venezuela ? Empidonax fulvipectus 

 from the city of Mexico; Trogon eximius from Panama (=7". 

 chionurus, nob., cf. Ibis, 1871, p. 468); Chlorostilbon caribceus 

 from the island of Cura9oa ; Leptoptila bonapartii from Mexico ; 

 and " Vireosylvia magister, Baird," from Belize, British Hon- 

 duras. 



2. Descriptions of three new Species of American Birds, with a 

 Note on Eugenes spectabilis. Ann. Lye. N. Y. x. pp. 137- 

 140 (1871). 



The species are Mimus nigriloris from Mexico, Buarremon sor- 

 didus from Bogota (which seems to be the yonrig of B. pallidinu- 

 chus (Boiss.), and, as such, has long been in our collections ; cf. 

 Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 69), and Serpophagn grisea from Costa Rica. 



3. Descriptions of new Species of Birds of the Families Troglo- 

 dytidse ««</Tyrannidaj. Pr. Acad. Phil. 1871, pp. 233-230_ 



