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the right direction, it is to be hoped that it will prove widely use- 
ful, in awakening and developing an intelligent interest in the ge- 
ography and natural history of the state.— J. B. P. 
Two Lare American Parers on OrxıTHOLOGY.*— Mr. Og- 
den’s article is an acceptable contribution, but like most early 
essays would have been the better for competent. supervision. 
Riippel is not the author of the Planches Enluminées, nor can we 
accept, even on Linnean authority, St. Domingo as the habitat of . 
an Asiatic bird. When geographical names are totally inept, or- 
nithologists cancel them; C. Dominica (L.) should stand as C. 
Brissoni Wag., and C. Ludoviciana (Gm.) as C. miles Bodd., the 
latter having, moreover, priority. Without criticising the specific 
determinations, several of which appear to require modification, 
we must indicate an oversight respecting the four species Mr. 
Ogden has not seen. Arranging the eleven of the Academy’s 
collection in three groups, according to the development of the 
Wattles and carpal spines, the writer continues directly with num- 
bers 12-15, which brings them under *‘ c, species devoid of wattles” 
ete., which is not the case with all of them. Thus, C. miles is a 
wattled and spined species, very near if not identical with C. per- 
sonatus Gould, which Mr. Ogden correctly locates under a. Some 
other species here admitted are probably invalid, as C. Uralensis 
Evers., which is generally assigned to leucurus. The term “ Lo- 
bivanellus” is not exactly synonymous with Chetiusia, as would 
: Seem from the title of the paper, these names being merely two 
of several that have been proposed for different groups of these 
t birds. The new species is C. nivifrons, from ‘ Fazoglou,” belong- 
-MG as we judge from the plate, to the unwattled group. 
Mr. Lawrence describes Catherpes Sumichrastt, apparently a sec- 
ond species of the genus, although, as_the-tail is wanting, he is 
hot satisfied of its position. It is, he’says, “ rather a remarkable 
king bird,” with the bill shaped precisely as in C. Mexicanus ; of 
stouter form and darker colors, with small white abdominal spots 
like the dorsal ones of that species. The type isin the Smithsonian 
Institution, from Vera Cruz. Three new fly-catchers are Myiozetetes 
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va mepris of the genus Chettusia (Lobivanellus), with a description of a New Spe- 
a ook den. . A. N.S. Phil., Oct. 1871, 194; PEL Descriptions of New 
i of birds of the famili i i idæ. By Geo. N. Lawrence. 
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