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VII. SPECIES ENTERED IN THE CHECK-LIST AS 



ACCIDENTAL, BUT NOW CONSIDERED AS 



OF REGULAR OCCURRENCE. 



[344.] Buteo brachyurus Vieili,.— Brackets to be removed, 

 the bird being now known to be a resident species in Florida. 



[623.] Vireo altiloquus barbatulus (Cab.) . — Brackets to 

 be removed, the species being now known as a regular visitor to 

 the Florida Keys, where it breeds. 



[737.] Parus meridionalis Scl. — Brackets to be removed, 

 its breeding range being now known to include portions of 

 southern Arizona. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Sharpe's Catalogue of the Sturniformes.* — Tlie present volume com- 

 pletes the descriptions of the Acromjodian Passeres. It treats of the 

 Wood-Swallows (ArtamidiE), the Starlings (Sturnidiu), the Weaver-birds 

 (Ploceidae), and the Larks (Alaudida;), and also the Brush-birds (Atri- 

 chiidie), and Lyre-birds (MenuridiE). These are all Old World groups, 

 the Larks only being represented in the New World by tlie single 

 genus Otocoris. The number of species and subspecies treated is 601, 

 represented by 11,699 specimens, only 58 species, or about ten per cent, of 

 the whole, being unrepresented in the British Museum collection. 



Respecting the classification, which brings these families into such un- 

 usual juxtaposition, Mr. Sharpe observes: "The classification adopted 

 in the third volume of the present work for the arrangement of the 

 Passeriformes was principally that of Mr. Wallace (Ibis, 1S74, p. 409), 

 with certain modifications. During the sixteen years whicli have elapsed 

 since Mr. Wallace propounded his idea of an arrangement of the Passeres, 

 we have learned that the classification adopted in 1S77 is somewhat arti- 



*Catalogue | of the | Passeriformes, | or | Perching Birds, | in the | Collection | of 

 the I British Museum. | — | Sturniformes, | containing the Families | Artamidre, Stur- 

 nidre, Pioceidre, Aiaudid:^;. | Also the families | Atrichiida; and Menuridns. | By | R. 

 Bowdler Sharpe. | London: | Printed by order of the Trustees. | Sold by | Longmans 

 & Co., 39 Paternoster Row ; | B. Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly ; Asher & Co., 13 Bedford Street, 

 Covent Garden; | Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner & Co., 57 Ludgate Hill; | and at 

 the I British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, S. W. | 1890. — 8vo, pp 

 xvi-f-702, pll. XV. := Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum, Vol. XIII. 



