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specimens in the Academy's collection labelled * Venezuela ' 

 and ' Cumana.' " 



Through Mr. Lawrence's kindness we have received copies of 

 two papers published by him in the ' Annals ' of the Lyceum of 

 Natural History of New York. His notes on Cuban birds contain 

 the results of a comparison of some specimens from Dr. Gund- 

 lach's and Mr. Forns's collections with their American repre- 

 sentatives. Tinnunculus sparverioides of Vigors is considered to be 

 distinct from T. sparverius. The Cuban bird^ representing Acci- 

 piter cooperi oi Northern and A. pileatus of Southern America, 

 is regarded as different from either, and named A. gundlachii. 

 Accipiter fringilloides of Vigors is re-established as distinct from 

 A. fuscus of the United States. Of Cymindis wilsoni of Cassin, 

 specimens sent by !Mr. Forns agree very closely wdth the original 

 description and figure in the Journal of the Philadelphian Aca- 

 demy. We fear our figure in the first volume of this Journal 

 has been somewhat in fault in inducing Mr. Lawrence to sepa- 

 rate the Gymnoglaux into two species, the white spots being 

 certainly present in the S. Croix bird. We do not believe that 

 Gymnoglaux newtoni is diflferent from G. nudipes ; and Mr. Law- 

 rence seems to have forgotten that the term nudipes was founded 

 on specimens from Porto Rico. If there are two species, there- 

 fore, examples from Porto Rico must be examined before it can 

 be asserted that the Cuban bird is " assuredly the true nudipes" 

 Another new species from Cuba is described as Antrostomus 

 cubanensis, representing the continental A. vocife}"us. The Den- 

 drceca called albicollis is, we suppose, the true D. petechia, as 

 recently determined by Mr. Cassin in his paper on the birds of 

 St. Thomas, referred to above. Other notes of interest are given, 

 upon the specimens received, which belong in all to 27 species ; 

 and the whole paper forms a very acceptable contribution to our 

 knowledge of this peculiar Island-fauna. 



A second paper of Mr. Lawrence, read at the same date (May 

 21, 1860), describes two new birds from the Isthmus of Panama, 

 Myiarchus panamensis and Phlegopsis macleannani. 



Mr. Elliott's Eupsychortyx albifrenatus, also described in the 

 'Annals' of the Lyceum of Natural History (April 1860), is 

 evidently Ortyx leylandi, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 62. 



