8l] BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX. 1857 647 



1857. BREWER, T. M. Continued. 



The foregoing is the title of the work as it appears in the separate copies. 

 The fuller title of the work, as one of the papers of the Smithsonian Contribu- 

 tions, is, "North American Oology ; being an account of the geographical distri- 

 bution of the Birds of North America during their breeding season, with figures 

 and descriptions of their eggs." The work was not continued beyond Pait I, 

 which treats of the Raptores and the " Fissirostres" (i. e., Caprimulgidce, Hirun- 

 dinidce, Cypselidce, and Alcedinidce). The text is a general account of the habits, 

 to some extent, of the species during the breeding season, as well as of the sub- 

 jects mentioned in the full title, and includes a copious synonymy ; no descrip- 

 tive, technical, or critical matter. Sixty species are treated, the eggs of 49 of 

 them being beautifully figured, printed in colors, and touched up by hand 74 

 figures, on 5 plates too many to be here recapitulated. Only a small part of the 

 edition, however, is in colors ; the regular ed. in the S. I. Conk being plain, 

 printed from another set of stones. The work is notable as the only purely 

 oological treatise of any extent as yet produced in America, and is the standard 

 as far as it goes. It contains a fair proportion of blunders, most of w m hich have 

 been exposed in the critiques the work has called forth from time to time, though 

 no one has been more zealous than the author in setting them right. The egg 

 ofButeo borealis? is figured for that of Astur atticapillus ; of Accipiter cooperi? 

 for that of Falco columbarius; of Hirundo lunifrons? for that of H. thalassina ; 

 and that figured as Archibuteo ferrugineus is doubtful. Cf. BKEWER, Am. Nat., i, 

 1867, pp. 121-123 ; COUES, B. Colorado, i, 1878, 421. 



1857. BREWER, T. M. List and Descriptions of Eggs obtained in California 

 by E. Samuels. < Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vi, 1857, pp. 145-149. 

 [See p. 66.] 

 Sixteen specimens. 



1857. BRYANT, H. A list of Birds observed at Grand Manan and at Yar- 

 mouth, N. S., from June 16 to July 8, 1856. < Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. 

 Hist, vi, 1857, pp. 114-123. [Continued by discussion, by several 

 ornithologists, on various points relative to North American Orni- 

 thology, pp. 123-125.] 

 55 spp. ; fully annotated. 



1857. BRYANT, H. [Remark on the early migration of certain American 

 Birds ihis year.] < Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vi, 1857, p. 170. 



1857. CASSIN, J. Notes on the North American species of Archibuteo and 

 Lanius, and description of a new specie? of Toucan, of the genus 

 Selenidera, Gould. <Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., ix, 1857, pp. 211-214. 

 Archibuteo, 3 spp. ; Lanius, 5 spp. ; Selenidera spectabilis, p. 214. 



1857. D'URBAN, W. S. M. Notes on the Land Birds observed round [sic] 

 Montreal during the winter of 1856-7. < Canad. Nat. $ Geol, ii, 

 1857, pp. 138-145. 

 Field-notes on a score of species. 



1857. D'URBAN, W. S. M. Notice of the Occurrence of the Pine Grosbeak 

 and Bohemian Chatterer, near Montreal. <^ Canad. Nat. fy Geol., i, 

 1857, pp. 465-472, fig. 

 More extended notice, with figure of the latter, by E. Billings, appended. 



Bemerkungen zu Vorigern [d. h. Vogel der Umgegend 

 Peorias in Illinois von Fr. Brendel] iiber Cathartes aura, Falco albi- 

 cilla, F. lagopus und F. buteo. <^Zdtschr. gesammt. Naturw., ix, 

 1857, pp. 426-433. 



,, Die vorstehenden Mittheilungen Herrn Brendels . . . veranlassen mich aus 

 Chr. L. Nitzsch' handschriftlichem Nachlass bier die anatomischen Notizen 

 theils zur Erganzung, theils zur weitern Vergleichung der nacbst verwandten 

 Arten anzuschliessen." Vergl. 1857, BHEXDEL, F. 



