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The following species of whose existence in our vicuiity, we have 

 had strong proof, are not included for want of specimens : 

 Jlquila chrysaetos^ L. 

 Folco peregrinus, L. 

 JVauclerus furcatuSf (L.) Vig. 

 Loxia. 



Conurus caroUneiisis, (L.) Kuhl. See Barton's fragments Nat. Hist. Penn. 

 Porzana jamcdcensis^ (Briss.) Ortygometra j.^ Aud. 



Additional species procured by Mr. J. Libhart, near Marietta, Pa., 

 twenty-five miles south of Cumberland Co. 

 Strohilophaga enuclcaior, (L.) Vieill. Corythus c, Aud. 

 Sylvicola fonnosa, (Wils.) 

 Limosafedoa, (L.) 



Calidris arenaria^ (L.) 111. Tringa a., Aud. 

 Chen hyperioreusj (Pall.) Boie. Anscr li.^ Aud. 

 Bernicla hrenta^ (Wils.) Steph. Aiiser bernicla, Aud. 

 Jlylkya vallisncria, (Wils.) Bon. Fuligida v.f Aud. 

 Larus zojiorhynchus, Rich. 

 " argentaius, Briinn. 



Total of species in Cumberland Co. 202 

 of which ] Breeding, _ - . 104 



Summer visitors, - - - 66 

 Resident, - - - . 38 



Transitory in spring and autumn, 90 

 Seen in autumn only, - - 8 

 Addenda. Troglodytes hrevirostris, Nutt. Short-billed wren. One pro- 

 cured, Sept. 20th, 184-5. 



NUG-/E ETHNOLOGICAE, NO. III. 



BY PROF. H. S. PATTERSON, M. D. OF PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



In enumeratnig the points of diiTerence which separate man so wide- 

 ly from the rest of animated nature, we next come to the shape, posi- 

 tion, and size of the head, and the peculiarities of function dependant 

 thereon. This has already been referred to in speaking ot the erect at- 

 titude, and the as incisivum or iatcrmaxillary bone. In addition, I re- 

 mark that 171 man the head rcsh directly upon the lop of the upright spine. 

 It is not exactly balanced upon it, as is sometimes represented, much the 

 larger part being in front, especially in those persons in whom the an- 

 terior lobes of the brain are most devolopcd. A well-shaped skull, pois- 

 ed upon its point, will incline lurwurds if unsupported, aud this prcpou- 



