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[Zoologist. — Continued,] 



2440. Tringa cannfus in Barbados. By H. VV. Feilden. Ibid., Dec, 



1889, p. 455. 



2441. American Bittern in Co. Londonderry. Bj Robert Patterson. 

 Ibid., Vol. XIV, Jan., 1890, p 24. 



2442. The So-called '■ Martinico Galliniile^ iti Ireland. BvA.G. More. 

 Ibid., pp. 24-25 — '■Porphyrio^ smarag7iotus, not lonornis martinica as 

 had been supposed. 



2443. American Bittern in Co. Kildare. By R. F. Scharfl'. Ibid., 

 p. 26. 



2444. Martinique Gallinule in Ha7its. Bj J. H. Gurney, Jun. Ibid.. 

 Feb., 1890, pp. 74-75. 



2445. Ardea rnrescens in Cornzvall. By Murray A. Matliew. Ibid., 

 March, 1890, pp. 105-106. 



2446. Ardea 7'irescens in Corn-vall. l>y J. E. Ilarting. Ibid., May, 



1890, pp. 181-182. 



2447. Note on the American Killdeer Plover Shot at Christ church, 

 Hants. By Edward Hart. Ibid., ]w\y, 1890, pp. 272-273. 



2448. The Baltimore Oriole in Shetland. By J. E. Harting. Ibid., 

 Dec, 1890, p. 457. 



2449. American Bittern in Co. Kildare. By Ethvard Williams. Ibid., 

 Vol. XV, June, 1891, p. 218. 



2450. Tttrdiis migratorius in the British Islands. By Ileni^- Scelxjhm. 

 Ibid., p. 219. 



2451. American I\cd-breasfcd Snipe in Argylcshire. By G. H. Ttlal- 

 colm. Ibid., Nov., 1S91, p. 247. — C. F. B. 



Publications Received. — Allen, J. A. (i) The Wanton Destruction of 

 Bird Life in America. (Our Animal Friends, XIX, pp. 126-128, 150-152. 

 Feb. and Mch., 1892.) (2) Notice of Some Venezuelen Birds, collected 

 by Mrs. H. H. Smith. (Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., IV, pp. 51-59.) (3) 

 Description of a New Gallinule, from Gough Island. (Ibid., pp. 

 57, 58.) 



Berlepsch, Hans von. Die Vogel dcr Insel Curac^ao. (Journ. fur 

 Orn., Jan. 1892, pp. 61-122.) 



Buttikofer J. (i) The specimens of the (Jenus Tartare in the Leyden 

 Museum. (Notes iVom theLeyden Mus. XIV, pp. 13-16.) (2) On the speci- 

 fic value of Levaillaut's Traquet commandcur. (Ibid, pp. 17, iS.) (3) 

 On the collections of Birds, sent by the late A. T. Demery from the Suly- 

 mah River, W. Africa. (Ibid., pp. 19-30.) (4) Jan Pieter van Wicke- 

 voort Crommelin. (Ibid., pp. 129-131.) (5) On a Chestnut and Black 

 Weaver Finch from Sumatra. (Ibid., p. 132.) (6) On a Collection of 

 Birds from the Islands of Flores, Sumba and Rotti. (Ibid., pp. 193, 206.) 



Cherrie, George K. Description of two apparently new Flycatchers 

 from Costa Rica. (Proc U. S. Nat. Mus. XV, 1892, pp. 27, 28.) 



Lorenz, L. von. [On the Second International Ornithological Con- 



