368 REVIEWS. 
doing we have only to add, in expressing our sense of the intrinsic value 
of the paper, and in according all the praise to its authors, that they so 
justly deserve, our impression that the symmetry of the paper is some- 
what marred by the circumstances, unknown to us, which resulted in the 
eastern birds occur in s Husa! jan Ameri Poli either associated with, or re- 
ee vocis speci was rather to have been antici- 
pat e fact has pain Sdn more and more apparent, of late years, 
by <a is anite from the North-west; and the present one may be re- 
garded as demonstrating it. Thus we have Picus villosus and P. pubes- 
cens instead of P. Harrisii and P. Gatrdneri; Colaptes auratus instead of 
C. Méricanus; Scolecophagus ferrugineus instead of S. cyanocephalus; 
Dendreca coronata instead of D. Auduboni; Querquedula discors instead 
of Q. cyanoptera, etc.; with Seiurus aurocapillus (though this has lately 
been known also from the Southern Pacific coast), Parus atricapillus, P. 
Hudsonicus (“abundant at Nulato”), Passerculus savanna (associated with 
the three other varieties, or species), Junco hyemalis,* Passerella iliaca, 
Bonasa wmbellus, Gambetta flavipes. Th sence of “Uria lomvia” 
(Lomvia troile), with both U. Californica and U. arra (svarbag), is prob- 
ably rather a matter of circumpolar distribution. We note on the other 
hand, among absentees that might have been expected, Zonotrichia leuco- 
pines. Limosa fedoa and Numenius longirostris. i 
ong the names to which American ornithologists have been more or 
and does not correspond at all with specimens of either EI or island- 
nsignatus" Cass., is given as a variety of Swainsoni. 
The old name of Nyctale “ puris replaces N. Richardsoni, used 
of late years; as Picoides ** Ameri " does P. hirsutus, ler Sunde- 
vall’s recent showing ih Av. deanery 1866, p. 15). The Saxicola enan- 
same bird that was described and flgured 
by Cassin as S. “ Sigo e Vig. (Illust. B. Cal. and Tex., p. 207, pl. 
peas Four species of Passerculus are recognized in the list, though we 
uld judge that with the exception perhaps of P. Sandwichensis, it were 
i rg probably explaining its occurrence, in Washington Territory (Suckley), and Arizona 
