118 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



noides, in opposition to the opinion of Dr. Hartlaub (Orn. West- 

 afr. p. 99), who considered them to be identical. 



5. American. 

 The ' Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History ' 

 contain a " Synopsis of the Birds of South Carolina " by Dr. 

 Coues, a very acceptable contribution to our knowledge of the 

 North-American Avifauna, as since Catesby^s time only one list 

 of the birds of this State seems to have been published, and that 

 list was confessedly nothing more than a compilation. Dr. 

 Coues has had the advantage of making personal investigations, 

 having passed two years at Columbia. He says : — 



" The birds of South Carolina, with few exceptions, are the 

 same as those of the South Atlantic and the Gulf States at 

 large (exclusive of certain Texan birds). These exceptions are 

 the Florida Jay, and the several species, not strictly North 

 American, which visit the peninsula of Florida alone, mostly 

 from the West Indies. It is not probable that South Carolina is 

 the terminus of the autumnal emigration of any northern species. 

 The lower swampy parts of Virginia rather represent such 

 terminus ; and any species which passes this boundary is likely 

 to be found in winter any where in the South Atlantic States, 

 exclusive, of course, of such species as pass entirely beyond the 

 United States. And, although the Carolinas, in a general way, 

 limit the northward extension of the few typical species of the 

 South Atlantic States, the boundary may be more definitely 

 placed in Virginia, along the line where the swampy changes to 

 the higher country, which, as we have just seen, limits certain 

 northern species in coming south." 



Two hundred and ninety-four species are enumerated by Dr. 

 Coues as occurring in South Carolina ; and brief notes are 

 appended to their names, containing much information on their 

 distribution, particularly as regards the season of their appear- 

 ance, which, coming from an authority so trustworthy, is 

 eminently useful. The doctor has some remarks on the subject 

 of Shrikes impaling their prey on thorns, which open a question 

 of much interest. Speaking of Lanius or Collurio ludovicianus 

 he says : — 



