362 REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 
lists of the birds of South Park and of the region at the base of 
the mountains between Denver and Colorado City,* being the only 
special reports relating to the birds of the region embraced within 
or contiguous to the districts explored by Messrs. Holden and 
Aiken. 
The country about Sherman is one of the most barren and for- 
bidding of any of the inhabited portions of the great central pla- 
teau of the continent, and the small number of species observed 
there by Mr. Holden fairly indicates its poverty, ornithologically 
considered. On the other hand, the region about Fountain, in 
the valley of the Upper Arkansas, is in a far milder and more fer- 
tile district, and the much larger number of species reported by 
r. Aiken indicates nearly its proportionately greater richness in 
avian life. Neither of these lists purports to be complete or ex- 
- haustive, yet they probably embrace all the more common and 
characteristic species of the two localities. 
The whole number of names given is one hundred and forty-two, 
but in the foregoing remarks it has been considered safe to regard 
the Troglodytes aédon of Holden’s list and the 7. Parkmani of 
Aiken’s as identical, both undoubtedly referring to the same race 
(T. aëdon, var. Parkmani) of T. aédon and not to two species, 
even if it be assumed that T. Parkmani and T. aédon are specifi- 
cally distinct. In like manner the Scolecophagus ferrugineus of 
Holden’s list has been regarded as S. cyanocephalus of Aiken’s, 
since the latter is a common summer resident far to the eastward 
„of Sherman, while S. ferrugineus has not been previously reported 
from points nearer Sherman than Eastern Kansas. I have also 
learned that Erismatura Dominica should read E. rubida. 
Mr. W. D. Scott has given a “Partial List of the Summer Birds 
of Kenawha County, West Virginia.”+ The list is based on “two 
months of field-work (from the middle of January till the middle 
of August, 1872),” and embraces eighty-six species. The accom- 
ying notes indicate the relative abundance of the species 
observed, and embrace occasionally short notices of habits and 
descriptions of the first or nesting plumage of the young, in cases 
where such stages had not been previously well described. 
‘The avian fauna of Kenawha County consists of a mixture of 
tho] R f Kansas, Colorado, Wf- » 
a wae Bull. Mus. Com. Zool., Vol. igs pp. 113-183, , Jun ne, 1872. 
t Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. Vol. XV, pp. 219-228, Jan. 1873 (Read Oct. 2, 1872). 
