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The author is apparently not familiar with Pindar's ''List of the Birds of 

 Fulton County, Kentucky,' 1 which contains some twenty-one species not 

 mentioned in the present list. In the present state of ornithological 

 knowledge there is no excuse for work of this kind, and it would have 

 been better, not alone for the reputation of the author, but for the cause of 

 science, had he submitted his manuscript to a competent reviser. The 

 author's conservatism in excluding species for which he had not at least 

 some record and placing them in a separate list of 'Additional Species 

 which may occur in Kentucky,' is the only thing to be said in his 

 favor.— F. M. C 



Cherrie on Costarican Birds. 2 — This paper is based on collections and 

 observations made in southern Costa Rica from November, 1891, until 

 April, 1892. It enumerates 199 species, 14 of which are new to the appar- 

 ently inexhaustible avifauna of Costa Rica. Of this number four species 

 are considered as new to science; three of these have been characterized 

 in previous papers, while one, Henicorhina pittieri, is here described for 

 the first time. 



The annotations under each species consist of a statement of the 

 number of individuals collected at the various localities visited, remarks 

 upon variations in plumage, and brief notes on habits and comparative 

 abundance or rarity. — F. M. C. 



Jouy on Central Mexican Birds. 1 — The late Mr. Jouy landed at Tam- 

 pico, October 13, 1891, and proceeded to St. Luis Potosi, where he remained 

 until the following January. He then continued his journey to Guadalajara 

 where he was resident for seven months. From these two points he made 

 numerous more or less extended excursions into the surrounding country, 

 making collections and observations on which the present paper is largely 

 based, though several species are included "which were collected at 

 Guaymas, on the Gulf of California, and also a few from the mountains 

 in Sonora, 32 miles south of the border town of Nogales." 



This list numbers in species of which n are water-birds. Catk- 

 arus melpomeue clarus (Barranca Ibarra, Jalisco), Psaltriparus mcla- 

 notis talus (Hacienda El Molino, Jalisco), and Spinas psaltria croceus 

 (Panama) are described as new forms, while Basilenterus rufifrons jouyi 

 has been previously described by Mr. Ridgway. 



1 The Auk, VI, 1889, pp. 310-316. 



2 Exploraciones zoologicas efectuadas en la parte meridional de Costa Rica por los 

 anos de 1891-1892. I. Aves, por Geo. K. Cherrie. Taxidermista del Museo Nacional. 

 1893. San Jose de Costa Rica. Tip. Nacional. 121110. pp. 1-59. 



3 Notes on Birds of Central Mexico, with Descriptions of Forms Believed to be 

 New. By P. L. )oay. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVI, 1894, pp. 771-791. 



