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the plumage of the adult female, dissection proved to be a male bird. 

 Mr. Sennett is confident that the Turnstone (Strepsilas inUrjires) breeds 

 along the entire, coast of Tex.as, — certainly an interesting fact, if so. 



The beautiful Ibises obtained, and to which the writer justly gives two 

 pages of text, are the white-faced bird, Falcinellus (late Ibis) guarmma; and 

 two young birds, entirely green-feathered, place thalassina among the 

 synonyms. Is not this species now entitled to be called the ordinary 

 North American bird rather than igneus (late ordii ? of modern writers) ? 



The nomenclature of the Ardeidce, or Herons, is based on Mr. Ridg- 

 way's late investigations, and we again have for Ardea egretta, candidissima, 

 and coirulea the genera, respectively, Herodias, Garzetta, and Florida; also 

 Hydranassa tricolor for late Ardea leucogastra var. Icucophrymna ; Di- 

 chromanassa ntfa for Ardea rufa, and Nyctherodius for Nyctiadea violaceus. 

 The whole makes very interesting reading, and is a valuable and welcome 

 addition to our increasing file of local list. — H. A. P. 



Matnard's Birds of Florida. — Part IV of this long-delayed and 

 important work,* which has recently appeared, is wholly devoted to the 

 family Fringillidce, of which fourteen species are described, carrying the 

 group from Chrysomitris to Pipilo. It is illustrated with a fine colored 

 plate of the Ipswich or Pallid Sparrow (Passcrcidus princeps), representing 

 the adult in spring. To original, somewhat detailed descriptions of the 

 different phases of plumage of the various species treated the author adds 

 short, very pleasantly written descriptions of their habits. The biograph- 

 ical portions generally relate more especially to their life in 'Florida, as 

 observed by the author during many seasons of exploration, covering 

 nearly all parts of the State. Mr. Maynard's long experience as a field 

 ornithologist in the " Land of Flowers," and his well-known attainments 

 as a naturalist, render him eminently fitted for the work he has here 

 undertaken. Although the fascicles of the work have thus far appeared at 

 rather long intervals (the first part having been issued in 1872), we are as- 

 sured that it will now be rapidly pushed forward to completion. — J. A. A. 



Jordan's Manual of Vertebrated Animals. — We are glad to see 

 that the demand for Professor Jordan's excellent Manual of the Vertebrates 

 of the Northern States has so soon rendered necessary a new edition ■*" of 

 this important work, and that the second edition has not only been to 



* The Birds of Florida, with the Water and Game Birds of Easterit North 

 America. By C. J. Maynard. Illustrated. 4to. Part IV, pp. 89-112, and 

 one Plate. C. J. Maynard k Co., Newton ville, Mass., 1878. 



t Manual of the Vertebrates of the United States, including the District 

 east of the Mississippi Eiver, and north of North Carolina and Tennessee, ex- 

 clusive of Marine Species. By David Starr Jordan, Ph. D., M. D., etc. Sec- 

 ond Edition, revised and enlarged. Chicago: McClurg&Co., 1878. 12mS. 

 pp. 407. Price, $2.50. . 



