and " Lint of Hirdx observed on tin- Eastern Slope of the Sierras, near 

 ('union City. Nevada, from September 1C, to No\embrr 7, with NoteH." 

 The genus rd.i.irrrlla in again overhauled.... -W. K, HH//. ^\W. 

 Ornith. Clul>, Vol. Ill , pp. 137, 138, July, 1878. 



LANOOON, FRANK W. A Catalogue of the Birds of the vicinity of 

 Cincinnati, with Note*. By Frank W. Langdon. Salt-in, Mass. 

 The Naturalist's Agency, 1877, 8vo., pp. 18. 



... embrace** two bundled niiil seventy-nine species, about one 

 third of which are marked as known to breed in tin- vicinity... The 

 list in evidently prepared with care, and given a convenient and un- 

 doubtedly trustworthy summary of the Avian Fauna of the Iccalitv of 

 which it treats.- J. A. A., Bull. Atf. Oniilli. Club, Vol. III., p. 34, Jan- 

 uary, 1878. 



LA WHENCE, GEOHOE N. DeecriptiouH of New Species of Birds from 

 the Island of Dominica. By George N. Lawrence. Ann. N. Y. 

 Acad. Sci., Vol. I., pp. 46-49. Issued Dec., 1877. 



The important explorations by Mr. F. A. Ober in some of the 

 smaller West India Islands (Lesser Antilles'bave been rich in interest- 

 ing results relating to birds. The collections and observations made 

 by Mr. Ober have been made the basis of several recent papers by Mr. 

 George N. Lawrence, in which no less than fourteen species supposed 

 to be new have been described . J. A. A., Hull. Xull. Urnith. Club, 

 Vol. IV., pp. 48, 4'.l, January, 187i>. 



McCAfLEY, C. A. H. Notes on the Ornithology of the Region about 

 the Source of the Red River of Texas, from Observations made 

 during the Exploration conducted by Lieutenant E. H. Ruffuer, 

 Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. By C. A. H. McCauley, Lieutenant 

 Third United States Artillery. Annotated by Dr. Elliott Coues, 

 U. S. A. Bull. U. S. Geol. and (ieoyr. Surv. of Terr., Vol. III., 

 No. 3, pp. 655-095, May 15, 1877. 



. . . The paper includes notices of al out one hundred species, with 

 quite copious notes respecting the habits of a considerable proportion 

 of them, with, in some cases, descriptions of their nests and eggs. . . 

 J. A. A , Bull. Suit. Ornith. Club, Vol. II., pp. 7(i, 77, July, 1877. 



MEKKIAM, C. HAKT. A review of the Birds of Connecticut, with 

 Remarks on their Habits. By C. Hart Merriam. Trans. Conn. 

 Acml. of Arls and Sciences, Vol. IV., pp. 1-150, July -Oct. , 1877. 



. . . .Since the appearance of LiusK-y's "Catalogue of the Birds of 

 Connecticut" in 1843, no detailed enumeration of the birds of that State 

 has been published. Hence the advent of Mr. Merriam's paper must 

 b<- hailed with interest by all engaged in the study of Nt-w England 

 Ornithology. The author gives in all two hundred and ninety-two 

 species . In the careful elaboration of interesting details culled from 

 personal experience and the note-books of well-known and trustworthy 

 field collectors, this paper is most rich....- W. 15., Hull. Suit. Oniilli. 

 Club, Vol. II., pp. 107. 108, October, 1877. 



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