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1853. THOMPSON, Z. Continued. 



new title-page, preface, and a separately-paged Appendix, relating chiefly to nat- 

 ural history. The preface states the circumstances which resulted in this mode 

 of publication. The Appendix may very likely be found separate. Chap. Ill 

 is devoted to the Ornithology, and there is supplementary matter of the same 

 kind at pp. 20-28 of the Appendix ; 161 spp. altogether (being about three-fourths 

 the avifauna of the State) are described, with brief biographical items, and illus- 

 trated by numerous small woodcuts, reduced from various well-known originals. 

 The nomenclature of NUTTALL'S Manual is followed. 



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port of an Expedition | down the | Zuni and Colorado Rivers, | by | 

 Captain L. Sitgreaves, | Corps Topographical Engineers. | | Ac- 

 companied by maps, sketches, views and illustrations. | | Wash- 

 ington : | Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, j 1853. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. 

 198, pll., map. > Birds. By S. W. Woodhouse, M. D. pp. 58-105, 

 pll. i-vi. 



The report of the Expedition occupies only the first 29 pages, the remainder 

 being devoted to natural history. Ornithology occupies, besides the pages above 

 given, portions of pp. 33-40 ; 219 spp. are given, with field-notes and some syno- 

 nymy. As the ground actually passed over is greater than appears from the 

 title of the book (Indian Territory and Texas to California), including portions 

 of different faunal provinces, ornithologists have had frequent occasion to regret 

 that geographical discriminations were not more strictly made. Various species 

 discovered on this expedition were previously named in tho Philadelphia Acad- 

 emy's Proceedings, vol. vi, excepting Acanthylis saxatalis (sic), here n. sp., p 64. 

 PL I, Vireo atricapillus; II, missing; III, Struthus caniceps; IV, Passerculus 

 cassini / V, Ectopistes marginellus ; VI, Numenius occidentalis. 



1853-54. BONAPARTE, C. L. Notes sur les collections rapporte*es en 1853, par 

 M. A. Delattre, de son voyage en Californie et dans le Nicaragua. 

 < Compt. Bend, de VAcad. Sci., xxxvii, 1853, pp. 806-810, 827-835, 913- 

 925 ; xxxviii, 1854, pp. 1-11, 53-66, 258-266, 378-389, 533-541, 650-665. 



The Delattre collections are but a slender thread of text, on which to string 

 an intricate running commentary and criticism on the classification and nomen- 

 clature of birds of the groups represented and of others. The paper is a notable 

 one, containing indications of many of the classificatory changes which Bona- 

 parte was in the habit of making toward the end of his life ; remarkable for 

 its numerous impressive and authoritative blunders, and the saroamss directed 

 against Cabanis, who published early parts of the Mv&. Hein. about the time of 

 BP.'B Consp. Av. Many new genera and species are named in this paper, but 

 generally indicated in such loose way as not to show whether they are really 

 new, or lately described by him elsewhere. I indicate the names that may 

 be new : the species are from all parts of the world. The paper is also separately 

 published, 4to, Paris, 1854. 



Premiere communication, 1853, pp. 806-810 ; Perroquets et Rapaces : Sittace 

 primoli, Psittacula pyrilia, p. 807. Accipiter (leraspizia) fontanieri, Ace. cas- 

 tanilius, p. 810. 



2 comm., pp. 827-835 ; Passereaux cultrirostres. Garrulus cervicalis, Gazzola 

 typica, p. 828. Physocorax, Amblycorax, Lycocorax, p. 829. Lamprocorax, 

 Hartlaubins, p. 830. Melanopyrrhus, p. 831. Ostinops guatimozinus, p. 833. Ba- 

 nanivorus, p. 834. 



3 comm., pp. 913-925 ; Pass, conirostres. Passer pallasi, Passer Confucius, p. 

 914. Pyrgitopsis, p. 915. Chlorospiza aurantiiventris, Gymnoris petria, p. 916. 

 Auripasser mulleri, Sycalis aureipectus, Metoponia, p. 917. Passerculus alaudi- 

 nus. Chondestes ruficauda, p. 918. Passerculus anthinus, p. 920. P. geospizopsis, 

 p. 921. Chlorospingus spodocephalus, p. 922. Hemispingus vencris, p. 922, Salta- 

 tor plumbeus, p. 923. Melopyrrha, p. 924. Fulica cornuta !, p. 925 (19 Dec. 1853). 



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