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Saunders, Howard. — On some Laridre from the coasts of Peru and 

 Chili, collected by Capt. Albert H. Markham, R.N. , with Remarks 

 on the Geographical Distribution of the Group in the Pacific. By 

 Howard Saunders, F.L.S., F.Z.S. Proc. Zool. Soc. of London, 

 June 6, 1882, pp. 520-530; with colored plate of Xema furcatum 

 adult and young. 



...Fifteen species are represented: among these is a specimen 

 (the third one known) of Xema furcatum, . now rediscovered after an 

 interval of forty years' fruitless search Mr. Saunders is one of the few 

 scientific writers who possess the happy faculty of making a technical 

 treatise interesting to the average reader. The present paper. . . .has a 

 direct value to the student of North American ornithology, for much of 

 its subject-matter. . . relates to species which are included in the North 

 American Fauna.— W. B., Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, Vol. VIII., p. 54, Jan- 

 uary, 1883. 



Shufeldt, R. W.~ Contributions to the Anatomy of Birds. By R. 

 W. Shufeldt, M.D. [etc.] Author's edition, extracted (in advance) 

 from the Twelfth Annual Report of the late U. S. Geological and 

 Geographical Survey of the Territories (Hayden's). Washington : 

 Government Printing Office, October 14, 1882. 8vo., title and pp. 

 593-806, pll. i-xxiv., many woodcuts in text. 



It includes chapters on the osteology of Spectylo cuvicvlaria hypogcva, 

 Dremophih alpeslris, the North American Tetraonidce and the Cathariidce. 

 These subjects have been already treated by Dr. Shufeldt in previous 

 papers ; but its subject-matter has been largely, if not entirely re- 

 written, and some unfortunate errors. .. .corrected. .. .The paper on 

 the Galharlidce with its accompanying plates, is entirelv new matter. 

 — W. B., Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, Vol. VIII. , p. 56, January, 1883. 



Under this title a meritorious and very promising ornithotomist 

 has brought together the greater part of what he has thus far accom- 

 plished in the way of avian anatomy .... It would scarcely be fair, how- 

 ever, to judge their reappearance by their original character, all of them 

 having been carefully revised and to some extent rewritten. . . .The text 

 is a faithful and on the whole an accurate description of the objects 

 under designation, and the fidelity with which the plates are executed 

 is most commendable... — E. C, Bud. Nutt. Ornith. Club, Vol. V11I. 

 pp. 166-168, July, 1883. 



Stejneger, Leonhard. — Description of two new Races of Myadestes 



obscurus Lafr. By Leonhard Stejneger. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



Vol. IV., 1882, pp. 371-374. Author's separates issued April 6, 



1882. 



. . . M. obscurus var. occidentalis, from the highlands of Southern 

 i Mexico and Guatemala, and M. obscurus var. insularis, irom the Tres 

 Marias "Islands.— J. A. A., Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, Vol. VIII., p. 170, 

 July, 1883. 



Wheaton, J. M.— Report on the Birds of Ohio. By J. M. Wheaton, 

 M.D. Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio, Vol. IV., pt. i., 



