BULLETIN 



ESSEX insrSTITTJTE. 



Vol. 5. Salem, Mass., Dec, 1873. No. 12. 



One Dollar a Year in Advance. 10 Cents a Single Copy. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, Nov. 17, 1873. 



[Continued.] 



Mr. F. W. Putnam presented the following communi- 

 cation : — 



ox SOME NEW FORMS OF AMERICAN BIRDS.* 

 By Spexcer F. Baikd and Robert Ridgway. 



The following diagnoses conclude a series commenced 

 in the October number of the "American Naturalist," and 

 are believed to be all the undescribed North American 

 land birds known to the authors at the present time. A 

 more detailed account of them is given in our "History of 

 North American Birds," soon to be issued by Little & 

 Brown, Boston. 



Leucostide (ephrocotis, var. australis Allen. 



Leucosticte tephrocotis Allen. Amer. Xat., vi, May, 1872. Ib. Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., iii, No. 6, pp. 121. 162 and 177. 

 Leucosticte tephrocotis, var. australis Allen. (Ms. name on labels.) 



•Continued from the October number of the "American Naturalist," Vol. vii, 1873, 

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