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1871. Ross, A. M. The | Birds of Canada : | with | Descriptions of their 

 Habits, Food, Nests, | Eggs, Times of Arrival and Departure. | By | 

 Alexander Milton Ross, | M. A., M. D., | Member of the Entomologi- 

 cal Society of London, England ; | Corresponding Member of the 

 Zoological Society of London, England ; | Member of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of Canada, etc. j With | Eight Plates and Thirty- 

 eight Woodcuts, expressly | engraved for this work. | Toronto: | 

 Henry Rowsell, King Street. | 1871. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. viii, 132, 

 frontispiece, and 1 1. advt. 



A full description of this work is contained on the title-page. Text briefly 

 descriptive and biographical. The birds treated consist of the permanent and 

 summer residents, and also such as regularly or accidentally stop in Canada 

 during the spring and autumn migrations. 307 spp. are treated, 42 of them 

 being illustrated by woodcuts, a few of which are original, the rest being poorly 

 executed copies from Audubon and Wilson. " The text is valueless." ZooL-Reo. 



1871. [SOUBEIRAN, J. L.] Le commerce des Oiseaux en Am6rique. < Bull. 

 Soc. Acclim., 2 e se"r., viii, 1871, p. 157. 



1871. STEVENSON, J. A List of Mammals and Birds collected in Wyo- 

 ming Territory, by Mr. H. D. Smith and Mr. James Stevenson, 

 during the Expedition of 1870. < Ann. Rep. U. S. Geological Survey 

 of the Territories (Hay den's) for 1870, 1871, pp. 461-466. 



Birds at pp. 462-466; nominal list of 124 spp., with localities of the specimens 

 collected and their number. The list is understood to have Smithsonian au- 

 thority. 



1871. THORPE, T. B. Bird [wildfowl] shooting on the coast of New Jersey. 



< Appletons' Journ., vi, Sept., 1871, p. 379, eight illust. 



1871. TRIPPE, T. M. Some Differences between Eastern and Western [North 

 American] Birds. < Am. Nat., v, 1871, pp. 632-636. 



Contrasts the habits and manners of a certain few well-known species in 

 populous and thinly settled regions. 



1871. TRIPPE, T. M. Notes on the Birds of Minnesota. <[ Proc. (Comm.) 

 Essex Inst., vi, 1871, art. vi, pp. 113-119. 



An annotated list of 138 spp. ; nomenclature and classification of AUDUBON'S 

 Synopsis, 1839. 

 1871. TRISTRAM, H. B. Notes on some Passerine Birds, chiefly PalsBarctic. 



< The Ibis, 3d ser., vol. i, No. 2, April, 1871, pp. 231-234. 



Contains notes on Alaskan birds collected by Kennicott, Dall, and Bannister. 

 Saxicola cenanthe and Budytes flava are identical with Palaearctic specimens; 

 Phyllopneuste kennicotti, Baird, = P. borealis, Bias. A synopsis of the known 

 species of Pyrrhula (including P. cassini, Baird a good species) is given. Also, 

 notes on Anthus cervinus and its affines. 



1871. WALKER, B. Two Ornithological Items. < Am. Nat., v, 1871, pp. 

 437, 438. 



Hesperiphona vespertina, Jan. 12, and newly fledged Eremophila alpestris, April 

 15, at Detroit, Mich. Comments by E. C[oues]. 



[1871.] WILSON, A., and BONAPARTE, C. L. Wilson and Bonaparte. | | 

 American Ornithology ; | or, | The Natural History | of the [ Birds of 

 the United States. | Illustrated with Plates | engraved and colored 

 from original drawings from Nature. | By Alexander Wilson | and | 

 Charles Lucian Bonaparte. | With a Sketch of the Life of Wil- 

 son, | By George Ord, F. L. S., | and | A Classification of the genera 

 and species of American Birds, | By Spencer F. Baird, | of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. | Vol. I [II, III]. | Philadelphia: | Porter and 

 Coates. | [No date. 1871.] 3 vols. imp. 8vo, with folio atlas in 2 



