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cost a text-book of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northeastern States 

 reliable in character and sufficiently extended to guide the student with 

 tolerable ease to the name of any species he may chance to have in 

 hand.— J. A. A., Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, Vol. I., pp. 93, 94, November, 

 1876. 



Kidder, J. H. — Contributions to the Natural History of Kerguelen 



Island. By J. H. Kidder, M.D. Edited by Dr. Elliott Coues, 



U. S. A. II. Oology, pp. 6-20. Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus., No. 3. 

 Washington, 1876. 



... .an account of the Oology of the island, including detailed de- 

 scriptions and measurements of the eggs, together with an account of 

 the breeding habits of all the species found breeding there. . . . — J. A. 

 A., Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, Vol. I , p. 48, July, 1876. 



Kidder, J. H. — Contributions to the Natural History of Kerguelen 

 Island. By J. H. Kidder, M.D. Edited by Dr. Elliott Coues, 

 U. S. A. II., pp. 85-116. A Study of Chionis minor. Bull. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., No. 3. Washington, 1876. 



This essay opens with a resume of the literature of the species . . . 

 Then follows a description of its anatomy, includine: an account of its 

 myology, of the viscera and the skeleton ; of its habits, general appear- 

 ance in life, and external characters — J. A. A., Bull. Nutt. Ornith. 



Club, Vol. I., pp. 48, 49, July, 1876. 



Lawrence, George N. — Description of a New Species of Jay of the 

 Genus Cyanocitta ; also of a supposed New Species of Cyanocorax. 

 By George N. Lawrence. Annals of the Lyceum of Nat. Hist. 

 N. Y., Vol. XL, pp. 163-165. [Published Feb., 1875.] 



(Cyanocitta pulchra) being from Ecuador and the other (Cyano- 

 corax ortoni) from Northern Peru. -J. A. A., Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, Vol. 

 I., p. 47, July, 1876. 



Lawrence, George N. — Birds of Southwestern Mexico collected by 

 Francis E. Sumichrast. Prepared by George N. Lawrence. Bull. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 4. Washington, 1876. 



. . . .The list embraces three hundred and twenty-one species, with 

 valuable and occasionally quite copious field-notes by the collector . . 

 -J. A. A., Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, Vol. I, p. 93, November, 1876. 



Ma.rsh, O. C. -Extinct Birds with Teeth. By Professor O. C. Marsh. 

 Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, June, 1876, pp. 509-511. 



These interesting forms ... combine in a peculiar manner many 

 reptilian characters with others truly avian. — J. A. A., Bull. Nutt. Ornith. 

 Club, Vol. I., p. 49, July, 1876. 



Ridgway, Robert.— Second Thoughts on the Genus Micrastur. By 

 Robert Ridgway. The Ibis, 1876, pp. 1-5. 



Ridgway, Robert. — Studies of the American Falconidse : Monograph 



