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years ago. No one can help rejoicing at any effort to disseminate more 

 widely an acquaintance with Alexander Wilson and his charming and 

 painstaking work. . . . But simply to reprint Wilson, even with Bonaparte 

 added, at $7.50, pointing out none of the errors, nor supplementing 

 the shortcomings is, to say the least, utterly unnecessary to the ad- 

 vancement of the science. — E. I., Bull. Nutt. Orniih. Club, Vol. IV.. pp. 

 53, 54, January, 1879. 



1879. 



Belding, L. — A Partial List of the Birds of Central California. By 

 L. Belding, of Stockton. Edited by R. Ridgway. Proc. D. S. 

 Nat. Mus., Vol. I., April, 1879, pp. 388-449. 



... It is based, .... upon observations extending through about 

 twenty years' residence in California, and upon collections made chiefly 

 during the last two years, which have from time to time, been forwarded 

 by Mf. Belding to the National Museum The number of species, 

 exclusive of the wading and swimming birds, is 158 . . In respect to 

 the designation of incipient species, Mr. Kidgway uniformly adopts the 

 system advocated by him in his paper on the use of trinomials in 

 zoological nomenclature in the present number of the Bulletin ... As 

 already stated, Mr. Kidgway was the first to adopt the system of pure 

 trinomials, and we regret to note his divergence therefrom .... — J. A. A., 

 Bull. Null. Orniih. Club, Vol. IV., pp. 167-171, July, 1879. 



Brewer, T. M. — Some Additional Notes upon Birds observed in New 

 England, with the Names of Five Species not included in his 

 Previous Lists of New England Birds. By T. M. Brewer. Proc. 

 Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, Vol. XX., pp. 263-277. Published Decem- 

 ber, 1879. 



.... It forms a second supplement to his ' ' Catalogue of the Birds of 

 New England," published in 187^, and adds five species to the number 

 previously recognized by him as New England birds, raising the whole 

 number to 361 .. These "Notes" form a convenient and connected 

 record of recent discoveries in relation to many of the rarer New 

 England birds, and add more or less that is new respecting some of 

 them.— J. A. A., Bull. Null. Orniih. Club, Vol. V., pp. 108, 109, April, J 880. 



Coues, Elliott. — On the Present Status of Passer domesticus in 

 America, with Special Reference to the Western States and 

 Territories By Dr. Elliott Coues, U. S. A. Bull. U. S. GeoL 

 anal Geogr. Surv. of Terr., Vol. V., pp. 175-193, £ept. 6, 1879. 



....a partial bibliography of, what is commonly termed the 

 " Sparrow- War in America " in which are given the titles of most of the 

 papers relating to this troublesome question, usually with a short digest 

 of the papers mentioned. . . .— J. A. A., Bull. Null. Ornith Club, Vol. V., 

 p. 41, January, 1880. 



Coues, Elliott.— Second Instalment of American Ornithological 

 Bibliography. By Dr. Elliott Coues, U. S. A. Bull. U. S. GeoL 

 and Geogr. Surv. of Terr., Vol. V., pp. 239-330, September 6, 

 1879. 



This part gives the titles of " Faunal Publications " relating to 



Central and South America, or that portion of America forming the 



