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tains"; Agelaius fhoeniceus sonoriensis, "Northwestern Mexico and 

 Lower Colorado Valley, in Southern California and Arizona; south to 

 Mazatlan" ; Agelaius phoaniceus bryanti, "Bahamas and Southern Florida 

 (Miami, Key West, etc.)" ; Pinicola enucleator kadiaka, "Kodiak to Sitka, 

 Alaska," and "probably southward to higher Sierra Nevada of California" ; 

 Carfodacus mcxicanus {frontalis in the text, p. 291) ruberrimus (provis- 

 ionally separated) Lower California; Plectrophenax nivalis toiuensendi, 

 "Prybilof Islands, Alaska, and Commander Islands, Kamtschatka" ; Passe- 

 rina versicolor pulckra, "Lower California and Western Mexico"; Lanitts 

 ludovicianus gambeli, "California, especially coast district" ; PJialcenopti- 

 lus nuttalli califomicus (provisionally separated), Northern California; 

 Paries stoneyi, Northwestern Alaska. 



Old forms rejected from the 'Check-List' but here reinstated are Cyano- 

 citta stelleri annecf ens Bd., Guiraca cairulea eurhyncha Cs., Prague cryp- 

 toleucaBd., Vireo gilvus stvainsoniBd., and Columbigallina fassetina pal- 

 lescens Bd. The two excluded are Carpodacus frontalis rhodocolpus (now 

 believed to be merely an individual color-phase), and Peuccea arizona- 

 Ridgw.= P. mexicanus (Lawr.). 



Colinus virginianus cubanensis is accredited to "Cuba and Southwestern 

 Florida," and is hence enumerated as North American. 



A copious and carefully prepared index closes the volume, which must 

 long reflect honor upon its author.— J. A. A. 



Olphe-Galliard's Ornithology of Western Europe.* — In this work the 

 veteran French ornithologist deposits the results of the labors and studies 

 of a long and useful life. The plan is one of considerable magnitude, in- 

 asmuch as he contemplates giving not only full descriptions, synomy- 

 mies, and biographies of all the species inhabiting Southwestern Europe 

 (embracing Portugal and Spain, with the Azores and the Baleares, 

 France, French Switzerland, all the country to the west of the Rhine, 

 and the English Channel Islands) but also such species as are nearly 

 related to, or may be easily confounded with, the birds inhabiting the region 

 particularly treated of. In this way the account of several genera has 

 grown into monographs which will be found to contain material useful 

 also to other ornithologists than those who are most directly interested 

 in the particular ornis referred to. 



The work will be issued in 40 parts, or fascicules, each comprising one 

 or more groups or families, and each one is separately paged. This is 

 certainly a great drawback, but was necessary in order to secure a speedy 

 publication, as the parts are issued immediately after having been finished 



* Contributions | a la | Faune Ornithologique | de | L'Europe Occidentale | — 

 Recueil | comprenant | les especes d'oiseaux qui se reproduisent dans cette region | 

 ou qui s'y montrent regulierement de passage | augmente | de la description des 

 principales especes exotiques | les plus voisines des indigenes | ou susceptibles d'etre 

 confondues avec elles | ainsi que Enumeration des races domestiques | Par Leon 

 Olphe-Galliard.— 8° 



