226 REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 
The second part consists of descriptions of the Echini of the 
Eastern coast of the United States, with a report on those col- 
lected by Pourtalés in the deeper parts of the straits of Florida. 
The forty-nine plates are lithographs, Woodbury types and 
Albertypes, and each is used with great success in delineating these 
forms so difficult to render, and expensive both as regards time 
and money. For such objects as Echini photography proves in- 
valuable. 
AFRICAN ORNITHOLOGY.* — Those who are interested in this 
subject will welcome this as a very convenient and useful volume, 
the entire reliability of which is assured by the author’s evident 
familiarity with the birds treated, as well as by the able critical 
editorship of his manuscripts. It is likewise a comprehensive 
treatise, four hundred and twenty-eight species being included. 
Specimens of nearly all of these have been reéxamined and identi- 
fied by Mr. Gurney, to whom we owe their nomenclature and ar- 
rangement, as well as the technical portions of the work, Mr. 
Andersson’s portion being that of a naturalist in the field. The 
complete title of the work, below quoted, sufficiently shows its 
plan and scope, while general praise of the mode of execution 
would be entirely superfluous. A point of interest for American 
ornithologists is the authentic record of ee Bairdiit as a bird 
of South Africa.— E. 
* Notes on the Birds of Dam 1 1th 
By the late Charles John EPn author of, “ete. Arranged and edi ted i: John 
Henry Gurn ti with some Ta notes by the editor, and a introductory í baper 
containing a sketch of the Author g 
London. gore Van Voorst, petty pit Pp- xlviii 
tMr. pobeg Supposition that this spec ies 2 as never been figured is not quite 
correct. original description, a ite tee colored plate of two figures 
pods gt Mr. Cassin, in apne et hia. I had proofs in my possession 
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hi 
plate was intended, and cannot say whether or not it wan ever publis pned. The 
a11 
is subjoined for conyenience of reference 
Chortito l ZARA, sec. Scl. ot kaiiv: 
; “ Tringa melanota VIEILLOT.” 
? “Tringa dorsalis MEYER et LIC 
` ? Tringa pectoralis CASSIN, Gil ites so Exp. ies 
Tringa Schinzit bil pees HOUSE, Sitgreave’s Exp. neg 100, Excl. syn., nec Brehm. 
SIN, Baird’s B. sya 1858, 722 ( partia) nec 
Tringa Schlegel. HAYDEN, 
“Geol. & Nat. Hist. € ee sen 5 eek Missouri, 1862, 174. (“ Water courses of the North- 
_ west.”) 
Tringa maculata maoti, Mus. Pays-Bas, Scolopaces, 1864, 39 arig 
Proc. Phila. 
Acad. 1861, 194. (“N. Am., R. Mts.”)— 
