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50. British Association's Report on Migration in 1881. 



[Report on the Migi-ation of Birds in the Spring and Autumn of 1881. 

 Bj Mr. John A. Harvie-Brown, Mr. John Cordeaux, Mr. Philip M. C. 

 Kermode, Mr. E. M. Barrmgton, and Mr. A. G. More. 8vo. London : 

 1882.] 



This is the third Report of the Committee appointed by 

 the British Association for the purpose of obtaining obser- 

 vations on the migration of birds at lighthouses and light- 

 ships. It contains separate reports based upon returns from 

 various points on the east and west coasts of England and 

 Scotland^ and also from the Irish coast^ drawn up by different 

 members of the Committee, and furnishes a mass of useful 

 information which will ultimately, no doubt, throw much 

 light upon this obscure subject. 



51. 'Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club.' 



[Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club : a Quarterly Journal of 

 Ornithology. Vol. viii. no. 1, Jan. 1883 : Cambridge, Mass.] 



In this number Mr. JeflFries describes very clearly an ex- 

 traordinary case of complete lateral hermaphroditism in a 

 specimen of Pipilo chlorurus. Mr. Brewster continues his 

 account of Mr. Stephens^s Arizona birds, amongst which are 

 noticed Picus stricklandi (14 specimens from the Santa Rita 

 mountains), Micrathene whitneyi (common in the desert- 

 region about Tucson), and (three examples of) Buteo abbre- 

 viatus. Callipepla squamata castanog astris (!) is a new sub- 

 species from the Lower Rio Grande. We have also read 

 with much amusement Dr. Coues's " Compliments of the 

 Season,'" and admired the illustrations ; but where was Dr. 

 Coues when so many of his feathered friends paid him a visit ? 

 He does not state in what place he passed his New-Year-'s 

 Day ; and we believe that he does not always remain in the 

 same abode. 



52. Dubois on the Variability of Birds of the Genus Loxia. 



[De la Variabilite des Oiseaux du Genre Loxia. Par M. iUph. Dubois. 

 Bull, du Musee R. d'Hist. Nat. Belgique, 1882, Oct.] 



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