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tions are a prominent and useful feature, and include a very large number 

 of excellent wood-cuts, from Swainson's 'Classification of Birds,' — figures, 

 which for "truth of detail and beauty of design have seldom been equalled 

 and rarely sin-passed." — J. A. A. 



Publications Received. — Allen, J. A On a collection of Birds from 

 Chapada, Matto Grosso. Part III, Pipridse to Rheidre. (Bull. Am. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., IV, pp. 107-158.) 



Cook, A. J. Birds of Michigan. Svo. pp. 14S. (Mich. Agric. College, 

 Bull. No. 94.) 



Finsch, O. Ueber die Monasarelle von Kuschai (A'itt/iizia Monasa, 

 unil die bisher mit ihr verwechselten Arten). (Mittheil. des Orn. Ver. in 

 Wien. XVII Tahrgang.) 



Fisher, A. K. Report on the Ornithology of the Death Valley Expedi- 

 tion of 1891, comprising Notes on the Birds observed in Southern Cali- 

 fornia, Southern Nevada, and Parts of Arizona and Utah. (North Amer. 

 Fauna, No. 7, pp. 7-15S, 1S93.) 



Hartert, Ernst. On the Birds of the Islands of Aruba, Curasao, and 

 Bonaire. (Ibis, July, 1S93.) 



Hasbrouck, E. M. Evolution and Dichromatism in the Genus Mcga- 

 scofis. (Am. Nat., 1893, pp. 521-533 and 63S-649.) 



Jacobs, J. Warren. Summer Birds of Greene County, Pennsylvania. 

 Svo. pp. 15, 1893. 



Lucas, Frederic A. Swifts and Hummingbirds. (Ibis, July, 1S93.) 



Merriam, C. Hart. Report of the Ornithologist and Mammalogist for 

 1892. (Rep. Secretary of Agriculture for 1892.) 



Nehrling, II. Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty. Vol. I. 4to, pp. 

 i-1, 1-371, pll. xviii. Milwaukee: George Brumder, 1893. 



Newton, Alfred, assisted by Hans Gadow and others. A Dictionary of 

 Birds. Part i,A-Ga. Svo. pp. viii, 304. London, Adam and Charles 

 Black, 1S93. 



Palmer, T. S. List of Localities in California, Nevada, and Utah, 

 visited by the Death Valley Expedition of 1S91. (North Amer. Fauna, 

 No. 7, pp. 361-384, 1S93.) 



Ridgway, R. (1) Description of a supposed New Species of Orfovto- 

 f horns from Southern Mexico. (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XVI, pp. 469-470.) 

 (2) Descriptions of some New Birds collected on tire Islands of Aldabra 

 and Assumption, Northwest of Madagascar, by Dr. W. L. Abbott. {Ibid., 

 XVI, No. 953.) 



Sharpe, R. B. (1) Note on Irrisor jacksotti, sp. n. (Ann. and Mag. 

 Nat. Hist., Dec. 1890.) (2) Notes on a second Collection of Birds made by 

 Mr. W. D. Gumming at Fao, in the Persian Gulf. (Ibis, Jan., 1S91.) (3) 

 Descriptions of fourteen new Species of Birds discovered by Mr. F. J 

 Jackson in Eastern Africa. (Ibis, Jan., 1S92 ) (4) Diagnoses of new 

 Species of Birds from Central East Africa. (Ibis, July, 1891.) (5) De- 

 scriptions of new Species of Birds discovered by Mr. C. Hose on Mount 



