i886.] Recent Literature. 479 



Edson on the Birds of Chatauqua County, N. Y. — In a brochure* of 

 14 pages Mr. Edson gives an annotated list of 150 species, embracing only 

 such as have come under his own notice during several years of obser- 

 vation in the central part of the County. The author says that many others 

 might doubtless have been added with safety, but he commendably re- 

 frains from including them till he can add them authoritatively. The list 

 consequently includes, in the main, only the more common species. Un- 

 fortunately the list is greatly marred by typographical errors, for which, 

 however, the author cannot be held responsible, it having been printed, 

 as we are informed, without his revision of the proofsheets. It would 

 be hard to find a worse specimen of printing in respect to the techni- 

 cal nam.es of the species. — J. A. A. 



Shufeldt on the Osteology of Conurus carolinensis and Geococcyx 

 californianus. — In a paperf of nearly twenty pages accompanied by 

 two beautiful plates. Dr. Shufeldt has given us another memoir on 

 the osteology of American birds, this time treating of the Carolina 

 Paroquet, a form doubtless soon to be added to the list of species exter- 

 minated by man's agency. Besides giving a detailed description of the 

 bones of the skeleton, he adds a convenient synopsis of the skeletal char- 

 acters of the species. 



A second paperj of similar character deals with the Road-runner, and 

 is illustrated by three excellent plates. It is needless to say that both 

 papers are valuable contributions to avian osteology. § — J. A. A. 



Publications Received. — Allen, J. A. (i) A Revised List of the Birds 

 of Massachusetts. (Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., I, No. 7, pp. 221-271.) 

 (2) The Masked Bob-white (Colinus ridgwayi) of Arizona, and its Allies. 

 {Ibid., pp. 273-290, pi.) 



Blasius, W. Beitrage zur Kennlniss der Vogelfauna von Celebes, II. 

 (Zeitsch. fiir die ges. Orn., 1S86, Heft. II.) 



Blasius, R., J. Rohweder, R. Tancre, and A. Waltei". IX. Jahresbericht 

 (1884) des Ausschusses fur Beobachtungsstationen der Vdgel Deutschs- 

 lands. (Journ. fiir Orn., Jahrg. 18S6, April-Heft.) 



Edson, John M. Birds of Chatauqua County, N. Y., 1S86, pp. 14. 

 (Jamestown, 1886, Geo. H. Tiffany.) 



* Birds of Chautaqua County. An Address delivered before the Chautaqua Society 

 of History and Natural Science, at its semi-annual meeting held in Jamestown, Janu- 

 ary 29, 1885. By John M. Edson. Jamestown : Geo. H. Tiffany, 1886. Large 8vo 

 pp. 14. 



t Osteology of Conurus carolinensis. By R. W. Shufeldt, M.D., Medical Corps 

 U. S. Army [etc.]. <^ Journ. of Anat. and Phys., Vol. XX, pp. 407-425, pll. x, xi. 



J The Skeleton in Geococcyx. By R. W. Shufeldt, Med. Dept. U. S. Army [etc.]. 

 <^ Journ. Anat. and Phys., Vol. XX, pp. 244-266, pll. vii-ix. 



$ We notice that in our copy of the paper on Conurus carolinensis the author has 

 corrected the description of the plate to read right pectoral limb, and right humerus 

 instead of left, respectively, as printed. 



