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Bonasa sabinii. 

 Canace canadensis. 

 Lyruriis tetrix. 



Pedloecetes phasianellus. 

 Bonasa sylvestris. 

 Lagopus scoticus. 



Centrocercus urophasianus. 

 Dendragapus obscurus. 

 Pedioecetes columbianus. 



While the Second part supplies illustrations of 



Canace franklini. 

 Bonasa umbelloides. 

 Lagopus leucurus. 



Some of these generic names may be new to our readers ; we 

 may therefore refer them to Mr. Elliotts paper in last yearns 

 'Proceedings of the Philadelphia Academy' (p. 23) for an 

 explanation; and we may remark that the "furor genericus," of 

 which we recently spoke in relation to the last part of the 

 ' Museum Heineanum,' is certainly not confined to this side of 

 the Atlantic. Mr. Elliot says of Pedioecetes columbianus, that it 

 has " never been obtained to the east of the Mississippi." But 

 we are assured by Mr. Sclater that this species certainly occurs 

 in tolerable abundance on the Upper Sainte Croix, in Wisconsin : 

 when, in September 1856, on his journey through the woods 

 from Superior City to St. Paul, he shot and ate several examples. 



Taking the circumstances under which it is produced into 

 consideration, we think Mr. Elliot's work is most creditable to 

 the enterprising spirit which prompts him; and we trust no 

 ornithologist who can afford to possess ouvrages de luxe will omit 

 to secure a copy. 



Our excellent friend Professor Baird is distributing the 

 sheets of his new work* "in advance of the completion" of the 

 book, " with the view of eliciting criticisms and suggestions from 

 Ornithologists and Naturalists." We have received nine and a 

 quarter of these sheets from the author ; and we need only say, 

 now, that the work appears most fully to sustain his great repu- 

 tation ; for in its present unfinished state it would be somewhat 

 premature to give a longer notice of it ; but that it will be a 

 most useful book to all who wish to become acquainted with 

 American ornithology, is already very evident. 



* Review of American Birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. By S. F. Baird. Part I. North and Middle America. Washing- 

 ton : 1864. 



