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Dr. Cabot exhibited to the Society fifty mounted birds, 

 most of them from the donation of the Chihan Minister. 

 Among them were the following species, identical with 

 species found in North America, and interesting as exhibiting 

 the extent of their distribution ; namely, Sterna Trudeauii, 

 found in New Jersey ; Ardea candidissima, found in the 

 southern parts of the United States ; Elanus dispar or leu- 

 curus, found in Mississippi ; Cathartes joia, found as far 

 north as Pennsylvania ; Tinnunculus sparverius, found in 

 the northern parts of the United States ; Calidris ar^cnaria, 

 found all along the coast of the United States ; and Totanus 

 vociferus, also found along the seaboard. Among the birds 

 exhibited was a species of Fulica, a female, much resem- 

 bling the North American species, but having a larger bill. 



Dr. Silas Durkee, Mr. J. D. Nourse, and Rev. Joshua 

 Young, of Boston, and Dr. Hiram Hosmer, of Watertown, 

 were elected members of the Society. 



BOOKS RECEIVED DURING THE QUARTER ENDING JUNE 30. 



Monograph of the Fossil Squalidse of the United States. By 

 R. W. Gibbes. 4to. Pam. 1848. Philadelphia. From the 

 Author. 



Observations on the genus Unio. By Isaac Lea. 4to. 1841-5. 

 Philadelphia. From the Author. 



Gray's Genera of Birds. Part 47, for March, 1849. Long 

 4to. London. Audiibon Fund. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Vol. III. 2nd 

 Series. No. 15, for March, 1849. 8vo. London. Courtis 

 Fund. 



Observations at the Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory 

 at the Girard College. 1840-45. 3 vols. 8vo. and one of 

 plates. Washington, 1847. From R. C. Winthrop. 



Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia, pp. 1 15 - 167 of Vol. IV. From the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences. 



PROCEEDINGS B. S. N. H. 11 JAN. 1850, 



