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of the country, first the domestic species are treated (pp. 558- 
560), then the useful or agreeable wild ones (pp. 563-567)^ and 
lastly those which are noxious (pp. 573, 574). 
Elliot, D. G. The Birds of North America. Parts IX.-XII. 
New York ; 1868. Imp. fol. 
Pour parts of this great work have appeared within the past 
year. The species figured are named ijnder their genera in t]ie 
special portion of this Record. [Cf. Ibis, 1868, pp. 345, 346.] 
SuMiCH^iAST, F. On the Geographical Distribution of the Native 
Birds of the Department of Vera Cruz. Proc. Boston Soc. 
Nat. Hist. xii. (1868) pp. 332-225. 
An abstract of a paper communicated by Dr, Brewer, and 
published at length in the present year in the ^ Memoirs ’ of the 
Society (i. pp. 543 563), Nominal lists are given of the birds 
found in the three zones or regions ” into which the author 
divides the country ; and in the paper at full length, notes of 
much interest are appended respecting many of tliem. 
NEOTROPICAL REGION. 
Burmeisteb, H. Contributions to the Ornithology of the Ar- 
gentine Republic and adjacent Lands. Part I. Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 1868, pp. 633-636. 
Since the publication of the author's Systematisches Ver- 
zeichniss der in den La Plata-Staaten beobachteten Vogelarten " 
(Journ. fiir Orn. 1860, pp. 341-368) and his ^Reise durchdieLa- 
Plata-Staaten' (1861), he has lived five years in Buenos Ayres, 
and in studying the ornithology of the district has observed 
some new species, tliree of which (belonging to Falconidce, Den- 
drocolaptidoi and Cotlmjid<a) are now described, and notes on 
eleven others arc given. 
Cope, Edward D. The Birds of Palestine and Panama com- 
pared. American Naturalist, 1868, pp. 361-359. 
Founded on the researches of Messrs. Tristram, Sclater, and 
Salvin. The Palestine arms excels that of Panama in superio- 
rity of development (according to what appears to bo the au- 
thor's views of it), the Oscines of the former finding their par- 
allels in the Clamatores of the latter. 
Cunningham, Robert O. Letters on South- American Orni- 
thology. Ibis, 1868, pp. 133-139, 486-495. 
The author is naturalist on board H.M.S. ^Nassau,' employed 
in surveying the Strait of Magellan, and in his first letter gives 
a very general account of the birds met with on his voyage 
thither and on the coast of Patagonia. [See Sclater, P. L., 
and Salvin, O.] In his second letter he describes briefly the 
localities visited, mentioning their chief ornithological features, 
in the season 1867-68. 
