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



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 time of writing, Vassar College contained nearly 1,200 spp., of which about 700 were X. 



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



originals of Audubon's plates. 

 1871. Orton, J. On the Condors and Humming-birds of the Equatorial Andes. 



< Ann. Alcifj. Xat. Hist, (4), viii, 1871, pp. 185-192. 



1871. Obtox, J. The Vultures and Hximming Birds of Tropical America. < Canad. 

 Nat. 4- Quart. Journ., n.a., v, 1871, pp. 3.57-360. 

 Abstract of his paper in Amer. Nat. 

 1871. ScLATER, P. L. On the Land-birds of Juan Fernandez. < 16m, 3d ser., i,1671, 

 pp. 178-183, pi. vii. 



Sketch of the islands; spp., with comment. PL vii, f. 1, Ancentes fenumdexianus ; f. 2, 

 Oxyurus masafuerce. 



1871. SCLATER, P. L. The Birds of the Lesser Antilles. < JNa^ure, iv, 1671, pp. 473 . 



INot seen. 

 1871. ScLATER, P. L. [Extracts from Correspondence with Mr. G. W. des Veens cou- 



ceming the expediency of introducing Secretarius reptilivorns or Dacelo gigas 



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



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

 1871. ScLATEB, P. L. On the Birds of the Island of Santa Lucia, West'lndies. <P. 



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

 Summary of Antillean avilknna; 25 spp., variously annotated. Icterus lauddbUis, pL xii, 



p. 270. 



1871. SciATER, P. L. On the Birds of the Vicinity of Lima, Peru. . . . With Notes 

 on their Habits ; by Prof. W. Nation, of Lima, C. M. Z. S.— Part IV. <P. Z. 5., 

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

 Continued from P. Z, S., 1869, p. 148.— 5 spp. Eiiecarthmus fulvieeps, p. 497, flg., sp. n. 



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



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



Ochthoeca Tmirma, p. 749 ; Heteropelma igniceps, p. 750, spj). nn. Synopsis of 16 -f 3 spp. of 

 Ochtkoeca. 



1871. SllNTJEVALL, C. J. On Birds Ijrom the Galapagos Islands. <P. Z. S., xxxix, 

 1871, pp. 124-130. 



A list of 26 spp., of which two are new (Ardea plunibea, pp. 123, 127-120, and Sphenitau 

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

 'Eugenie' expedition in 1852. Eemarks on the species allied to some of those recorded ore 

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



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



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



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

 1871-74. GUJIDLACH, J. Neue Beitrage zur Ornithologio Cubas. < J./. 0.,xix,1871, 

 pp. 265-295, 353-378 ; xx, 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 is 

 wholly occupied with a review of what has been done on the subject, from Madeay (lf27) to 

 the author himself (1863-66). The second begins The Revised List of Cuban Birds. 



1872. Asrox. Zoology of the Galapagos. < Pop. Sci. MontMy, Sept., 1872, pp. 633-635. 



Various allusions to the birds. 



1872. Editors. Now Galapagos Birds. <J»i. Xat., vi, 1872, p. 3;?. 

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

 1872. Hudson, W. H. On the Birds of the Eio Negro of Patagonin. With Notes by 

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



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

 appends a nominal list of 48 spp. of the region, 7 of them peculiar to it.-Cnipolegm Itudsoni, 

 Scl., p. 341, pi. 31, sp. n. 



