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II. 8. Northern Ilonndary (' munis-ion. It nil. I'. S. d'l-ol. Surrey 

 n/thr Territories, Vol. IV., No. ,'J, pp. 545 Wit. July 2i>, 1878. 



Tin 1 observations relate m.iinly to the country . . from 1'embina on 

 lip KVil Uii'T t tin* Hooky MoiintniiiH. . . .11 distance of about eight 

 hundred anil tilty mii<>H. Dr. Cones in his preliminary reinarkH divides 

 the country traversed into three regions, whidi In- terms respectively 

 tin- " Ucl Hivcr Region." tli<> "Missouri K'-gion." uii>l tin; Kocky 

 Mountain Region " The phynical and zoological characteristics ol these 

 ii-giniis arc briefly <l< tailed, to which is added n tabular enumeration of 

 Home of the more conspicuous birds of tin- three regions. Then followH 

 it copiously iiiinotutiMl list of all the species observed . . J. A. A., Bull. 

 \ntt. Oritilh. L'lulf. Vol. IV.. pp. 411, 5u, January. IHT'.i. 



JOKDAN, DAVIH STAKU Manitul of the Vurtel)riiti!.s of the United 

 States, inchiilinK the District east of the Mississippi River, and 

 north of North Carolina and Tennessee, exclusive of Marine Spe- 

 cies. By Diivid Starr Jordan, Ph.D., M.D.,etc. Second Edition, 

 revised and enlarged. Chicago: McClnrg & Co. , 1878. 12mo. , 

 pp. 407. 



. . .the second i-dition has not only been to some extent "revised," 

 but enlarged l>y the addition of upwards of fifty pages of new matter. 

 . .The account of the fishes has been entirely re-written ...- J. A 

 A., Hull. Xtt. Orniilt. ChA, Vol. III., pp. 145, 146, July, 1878. 



LAWRENCE, GEOHGE N. Desciiptions of Seven New Species of Birds 

 from the Island of St. Vincent, West Indies. By George N. Law- 

 rence. Ann. N. Y. Acrid. Set., Vol. I., pp. 14*5-152. Issued Mny- 

 September, 1878. 



LAWRENCE, GEORUE N. Descriptions of Suppo-ed New Species of 

 Birds from the Islands of Grenada and Dominica, West Indies. 

 By George N. Lawrence. Ann. JV r . Y. Acai/. Sci., Vol. I., pp. 

 160-163. Issued May-September, 1878. 



MAYNAKD, C J. The Birds of Florida, with the Water and Game 

 Birds of Eastern North America. By C. J Maynard. Illustrated. 

 4to. Part IV., pp. ND-112, and one IMute. C. J. Mayuard & Co., 

 Newton ville. Mass , 1878. 



... .is wholly devoted to the family //im////!</<'-. of which fourteen 

 species are described . . .It is illustrated with a tine colored plate of the 

 Ipswich or Pallid Sparrow (Pos.vercw/w.s pri/icp/is), representing the adult 

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

 phases of plumage of the various species treated the author adds shoit, 

 verv pleasantly written descriptions of their habits . . .- J. A. A., Piull. 

 .\n'tl. Oririlh. Clul>, Vol. Ill , p. Ho, July, 187*. 



RIIXIWAY, ROHKRT. Studies of the American Herodiones. Parti. 

 Synopsis of the American genera of Ardeidn- and Ciconiida- ; in- 

 cluding descriptions of three new genera, and a monograph of (lit 1 



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