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thanks for giving us such a generous supply of plates that are on the whole 
so excellent. 
The volume ends with an annotated ‘List of the Birds of Pennsylvania’ 
covering twenty-one pages and including 310 species, affording opportu- 
nity to briefly treat the species omitted from the body of the work. It is 
“based chiefly on observations made during the past ten years in Eastern 
Pennsylvania, especially in the Counties of Chester, Delaware and Lan- 
caster,” but itis in part compiled from manuscript notes of John Krider and 
H. B. Graves, the published writings of Ridgway, Coues, Gentry, Turn- 
bull, Baird, Michener, Barnard and Pennock, and information received 
from Mr. Geo. B. Sennett. Some forty or fifty names are entered without 
annotations, though most of these have been already discussed in the 
previous pages. The list contains some new and interesting records and 
occasionally a statement that would interest one much more if supported 
by a detailed account of the facts or a citation of the authority. 
The ‘Report’ was printed by direction of the Legislature of Pennsyl- 
vania for gratuitous distribution in the State, and the demand so far ex- 
ceeded the supply that the edition of 6000 copies was quickly exhausted 
and, we are very glad to learn, the publication ofa second edition of 10,000 
copies, revised and enlarged, has been ordered. When this book has 
found its way into the schools and farmhouses throughout Pennsylvania 
the profit to the birds, to the farmers, and to ornithology, that ought to 
result, is incalculable. If other Statés would but follow such a good ex- 
ample, it would be an important step toward lifting the cloud of ignor- 
ance that hangs over the rural mind upon matters of natural history.— 
(Go 16 183 
Ridgway on New or Little-known American Birds.—In the ‘Proceed- 
ings’ of the U. S. National Museum and Boston Society of Natural His- 
tory, Mr. Ridgway has recently published various papers on American 
birds, in the main relating to Mexican and South American species, as 
follows: (1) ‘Remarks on Cathkarus berlepschi Lawr.’* indorsing the 
species and giving itssynonymy. (2) ‘Descriptions of some new Species 
and Subspecies of Birds from Middle America.’t These are Catharus 
fumosus from Costa Rica and Veragua (allied to C. mexzcanus Bon.) ; 
Mimus gracilis leucopheus, from Cozumel; Harporhynchus longirostris 
sennettz, from Southern Texas, the larger, duller, more grayish Texan 
race being considered as subspecifically separable from the true longzrostris 
of Mexico; Campylorhynchus castaneus from Guatemala and Honduras, 
hitherto referred to C. cafzstratus, which it much resembles; Thryothorus 
rufalbus castanonotus from ‘‘Nicaragua to Colombia”; Microcerculus 
daulias, from Costa Rica, and related to WM. philomela Scl.; Dendrornis 
lawrence?, from Panama, and a subspecies cos¢arzcensis of this last, from 
Costa Rica. (3) ‘Note on the Generic name Urofszla Scl. & Salv.,’ t which 
* Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1887, p. 504. (Aug. 6, 1888.) 
Tt Ibid., pp. 505-510. (Aug. 6, 1888.) 
t Ibid., p. 511. (Aug. 6, 1888.) 
