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1871. Orton, J. Notes on some Birds in the Museum of Vassar College. <^Amer. Nat., 



iv, No. 12, Feb., 1871, pp. 711-717. 

 Observations on 50 or more spp., the greater part of the notes relating to neotropical birds. 



At iime of writing, Vassar College contained nearly 1,200 spp., of wbicli about 700 were I^'. 



and 600 S. Amei'ican ; among them several type-specimens, and others of interest as the 



originals of Audubon's plates. 

 1871. Orton, J. On the Condors and Hnmming-hirds of the Equatorial Andes. 



< Ann. Mag. Nat. Mist, (4), viii, 1871, pp. 185-192. 



1871. Orton, J. The Vultures and Humming Birds of Tropical America. < Canad. 

 Nat. 4^ Quart. Journ., n. s., v, 1871,pp. 3.57-3G0. 

 Abstract of his paper in Anier. Nat. 

 1871. SCLATER, P. L. On the Land-birds of Juan Fernandez. < His, 3d ser., i,1671, 

 pp. 178-183, pi. vii. 



Sketch of the islands; 6 spp., with comment. PI. vii, f. I, Anceretes fernandezianus ; f. 2, 

 Oxyurus masafuerce. 



1871. SCLATER, P. L. The Birds of the Lesser Antilles. < Nature, ix, 1871, pp. 473 . 



Xot seen. 

 1871, SCLATER, P. L. [Extracts from Correspondence with Mr. G. W. des Vceux con- 

 cerning the expediency of introducing Secretarius reptilivorus or Dacelo gigas 

 for destruction of the Rat-tailed Serpent of Santa Lucia (Trigouocephalus 

 lanceolatus). ] < P. Z. S. , xxxix, 1871, pp. 2-4. 

 1871. SCLATER, P. L. On the Birds of the Island of Santa Lucia, West Indies. <P. 

 Z. S., xxxix, 1871, pp. 263-273, pi. xxi. 



Summary of Antillean avifauna; 25 spp., v.iriously annotated. Icterus laudabiUs, pi. xxi, 

 p. 270. 



1871. SCLATER, P. L. OntheBirdsoftheVicinityof Lima, Peru. . . . With Notes 

 on their Habits ; by Prof. W. Nation, of Lima, C. M. Z. S.— Part IV. <P. Z. S., 

 xxxix, 1871, pp. 496-498, fig. 

 Continued from P. Z. S., 1869, p. 148.— 5 spp. Huscarthmiis /ulviceps, p. 497, fig., sp. n. 



1871. ScLATER, P. L. Remarks on a Collection of Birds from Oyapok [Cayenne]. 



< P. Z. S. , xxxix, 1871, pp. 749, 750. 



Ochtho'cca niitrina, p. 749 ; Heteropelma igniceps, p. 750, spp. nn. Synopsis of 16 + 3 spp. of 

 Ochthoeca. 

 1871. SUNDEVALL, C. J. On Birds from the Galapagos Islands. <P. Z. S., xxxix, 

 1871, pp. 124-130. 



A list of 26 spp., of which two are new (Ardea ijlumbea, pp. 125, 127-129, and Spheniscus 

 mendiculus, pp. 129, 130 ; also a new variety of Ardea violacea), obtained by the Swedish 

 ' Eugenie ' expedition in 1852. Remarks on the species allied to some of those recorded are 

 added. Some are noticed from the Galapagos for the first time. 



1871. Wyatt, C. W. Notes on some of the Birds of the United States of Columbia. 



<^IUs, i, 1871, 3d ser. , pp. 113-131, pi. v (map), 319-335, 373-384. 

 Extended account of the region and roiite ; field-notes on 210 spp. ; map of author's journey. 

 1871-74. GUNDLACH, J. Neue Beitrage znr Ornithologie Cubas. < J"./. 0.,xix, 1871, 

 pp. 265-295, 353-378 ; sx, 1872, pp. 401-432 ; xxii, 1874, pp. 113-166, 286-303. 



There are literal discrepancies in the titles of the successive instalments. The first part ia 

 wholly occupied with a review of what has been done on the subject, from Macleay (1827) to 

 the author himself (1865-66). The second begins The Revised List of Cuban Birds. 



1872. Anox. Zoology of the Galapagos. < Poj). Sci. Monthly, Sept., 1872, pp. 633-635. 



Various allusions to the birds. 

 1872. Editors. New Galapagos Birds. <Jm. Nat., \i, 1872, p. 38. 

 Notice of Scl. & Salv., P. Z. S., May, 1870, on Dr. Habel's discoveries. 



1872. Hudson, W. H. On the Birds of the Rio Negro of Patagonia. With Notes by 

 P. L. Sclater. <P. Z. S., xl, 1872, pp. 534-550, fig., pi. xxxi. 



Field-notes on 23 spp., technical names of most of which are supplied by Dr. Sclater, who 

 appends a nominal list of 48 spp. of the region, 7 of them peculiar to it.— C'/iiiJolegus hudsoni, 

 Scl., p. 541, pi. 31, sp. n. 



