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73. ' Transactions of the Linncean Society of New York.' 



[Transactions of the Linnaean Society of New York, Volume one. 

 Published by the Society, Dec. 1882. New York: 1882. Ivol. 168 pp.] 



The Recording Secretary of the Linnsean Society of New 

 York^ Mr. L. S. Foster, has kindly sent us a copy of the first 

 volume of the Society's ' Transactions.^ Of the three memoirs 

 which it contains, two are ornithological. One, by Mr. 

 Dutcher, relates to the question as to whether the Fish-Crow 

 {Corvus ossifragus) is only a summer visitor or a permanent 

 resident at the northern limit of its range ; the other, by Mr. 

 E, P. Bicknell, is " a Review of the Summer Birds of a part 

 of the Catskill Mountains, with prefatory Remarks on the 

 Faunal and Floral Features of the Region,''^ and is of much 

 interest. 



74, Turner on Lagopus mutus and its Allies. 



[On Lagopus mutus, Leach, and its Allies. By Lucien M. Turner. 

 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1882, p. 225.] 



Mr. Turner recognizes four subspecies of L. mutus, namely 

 — L. mutus {typicus) from Europe, L. mutus rupestris of N. 

 America, L. mutus reinhardti of Greenland, and L. mutus 

 atkhensis (subsp. nov.) of the Atka Islands (Aleutians). Mr. 

 Turner has not been able to examine Icelandic specimens {L. 

 islandorum, Faber). 



75, Vorderman's ' Bat avian Birds.' 



[Bataviasche Vogels door A. G. Vorderman, Part III. Afgedrukt uit 

 het Ned. Tijdschr. v. Ned. Ind. Deel xlii.] 



This is a continuation of the article already mentioned 

 (Ibis, 1883, p. 118). It contains notes and descriptions of 

 thirty birds met with by the author near Batavia. Cypselus 

 infumatus, not C. palmarum as given by Bernstein (J. f. O, 

 1860, p. 429), is the small Palm-Swift of Java. 



76. Zeledon's ' Birds of Costa Rica.' 



[Catalogo de las Aves de Costa-Rica, Por Jose C. Zeledon. 8vo. San 

 Jose, Costa-Rica, 1882.] 



