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Amei'ican species of the genus Ardea. By Robert Ridgway. 

 Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. of Terr., Vol. IV., pp. 219-251, 

 February 5, 1878. 



The first of a series of papers here begun deals mainly with the 

 and Ciconiida; . . . The A. wilrdemannl of Baird, which has been 

 a puzzle to ornithologists for twenty years is considered to be the 

 "blue phase " of A. o'-e,idenlnlis . J. A. A., Hull. .\utl. Ornilh. Club, 

 Vol. III., pp. 182, 183, October, 1878. 



SAUNDEBS, HOWARD. On the Larinai. By Howard Saunders. Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London, 1878, pp. 115-212. 



The whole number of species recognized in this paper is forty-nine, 

 of which number twenty maybe counted as North American ...Mr. 

 Saunders's paper evinces a remarkable success in disentangling the 

 complicated web of European Gulls ...and the service rendered by 

 Mr. Saunders cannot fail to be appreciated by all who have experienced 

 its need. T. M. B., Bull. Null. Ornilh. Club, Vol. III., pp 185-ls7, 

 October, 1878. 



SENNETT, GEORGE B. Notes on the Ornithology of the Lower Rio 

 Grande of Texas, from Observations made during the Season of 

 1877. By George B. Senuett. Edited, with Annotations, by Dr. 

 Elliott Coues, U. S. A. Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. of Terr., 

 Vol. IV., pp. 1-66, February 5, 1878. 



... .on one hundred and fifty-one species of birds observed on the 

 southern border of Texas.... Mr. Sennett certainly collected under 

 many annoyances, but intensely hot days. . . .did not prevent his secur- 

 ing some five hundred birds, one of which is new to science, ramely, 

 Sennett's Warbler (Parulu nigri'ora). The paper is most carefully com- 

 mentated by Dr. Coues . . . H. A. P., Bull. Xull. Orrdlh. Club, Vol. III., 

 pp. 144, 145, July, 1878. 



STEVENSON, H. Adams's Notes on the Birds of Alaska. By H. 

 Stevenson. The Ibis, 4th Series, Vol. II., pp. 420-442, Oct., 1878, 



Some twenty-eight years ago (October, 1850) Mr. Edward Adams, 

 a surgeon in the British navy . . .was sent to the Redoubt of Michalaski. 

 on the shores of Norton Sound, Alaska. He remained there until late 

 ia the following June, and made some very interesting and valuable 

 notes on the birds of the region. His collections were given to the 

 British Museum, to Mr. John Gould, and to the late Mr. G. R. Gray. 

 The latter dedicated to him the Colymbus adamsi . . These early obser- 

 vations of Alaskan species... have intrinsic interest and are well 

 worthy of attention. T. M. B., Bull. Xull. Ornih. Club, Vol. IV., pp. 

 52, 53, January, 1879. 



WILSON, ALEXANDER, and BONAPARTE, CHARLES LUCIAN. American 

 Ornithology ; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United 

 States. Illustrated with plates engraved from drawings from 

 Nature. By Alexander Wilsou and Charles Lucian Bonaparte. 

 Popular edition. Philadelphia : Porter and Coates. Three vol- 

 umes in one. 



It claims to be an exact reproduction, minus the atlas of colored 

 plates, of the $100, three-volume edition issued by the same lirm some 



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