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regarding its Effect upon Animal Life, including Remarks on the Migra- 

 tion of Birds in the Autumn of 1878 and the Spring of 1879. By Mr. 

 John A. Harvie-Brown. Proc. Nat.-Hist. Soc. Glasgow, Sept. 1879.] 



Mr. Harvie-Brown attempts to chronicle the abnormal 

 effects of an unusually severe winter on the migration of 

 birds, and, after alluding to various other papers already 

 written on the same subject, gives us the results of his own 

 experience and that of many correspondents. He then treats 

 of the species in order, and of the manner in which they were 

 variously affected by the winter of 1878-79. 



— i— 12. Haswell's Notes on the Anatomy of Birds. 



[Notes on the Anatomy of Birds. By William A. Haswell, M.A. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales, vol. iv. p. 303.] 



Part ii. of M.v. Haswell^s Notes treats of the lumbar and 

 sacral plexuses of the nerves, part ii. of the myological cha- 

 racters of the Columbidse. In the latter the author points 

 out five special characters of this group as regards their 

 myology. 



13. Henshaw's Ornithological 'Report. 



[Ornithological Report upon Collections made in Portions of California, 

 Nevada, and Oregon. By H. W. Henshaw. Extracted from Annual 

 Report of the U.S. Geogr. Survey, 1879.] 



]Mr. Henshaw reports upon his ornithological observations 

 and collections made during the field-seasons of 1877 and 

 1878 of the geographical surveys Avest of the 100th meridian. 

 After a preliminary account of the natural features of the 

 country traversed (which lay between the western border of 

 Nevada and the Columbia river), the notes are given, in syste- 

 matic order. Among the rarer species met with abundantly 

 were Myiadestes townsendi and Stellula calliope. ]V[r. Hen- 

 shaw makes good remarks upon the various geographical forms 

 of many of the species, especially among the Fringillidse, 



14. Homey er's 'Journey to Heligoland.' 



[Reise nach Heligoland, die Nordseeinseln S^'lt, Lyst etc. von E. F. v. 

 Homeyer. Frankfurt a. M. : 1880. 8vo, 92 pp.] 



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