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^ Hutton, F. W. Catalogue of the Birds of New Zealand, with 
diagnoses of the species. New Zealand: 1871. 8vo, 
pp. 85. 
Intended chiefly for the use of colonists, and well adapted to 
that end,g brief diagnosis of each of the 160 species included 
(one of wich, belonging to Campephagid<By is new) being~4n- 
scrted, as well as an analytical key to the families. A list of the 
species introduced is added, and finally some critical notes, giv^ 
iiig the author’s reasons for certain changes in nomenclature and 
so forth^ 
^ . . On the Nests and Eggs*^of some species of New-Zealand 
/ Birds. [See Oology.-”] 
Potts, T. H. On the Birds of New Zealand. [See Oo- 
LOGY.^^] 
j ScLATER, P. L. Remarks on the Avifauna of the Sandwich 
Islands. Ibis, 1871, pp. 356-362. 
(Especially refers to Mr. Dole’s paper (Zool. Bee. vii. p. 32), of 
which it contains some important corrections. The 15 Hawaiian 
species of Passeres admitted by the author belong, with one ex- 
ception (a Corvus)y to genera peculiar to the islands, and to the 
families Muscicapidoi and Meliphagidae, Of the latter a nevt 
genus is proposed 
ScHLEGEL, II. [See General Subject.”] 
/Walden, [Arthur Hay,] Viscount. On the Birds of Celebes 
P. Z. S. 1871, pp. 329-337. 
/ The introductory buf-Ycry-important portion of a paper since o 
published in the Zoological Society’s / Transactions^ 
NEARCTIC REGION. 
Allen, J. A. On the Mammals and Winter Birds of East Flo- 
rida. [See General Subject.”] 
Bruhin, T. a. Ueber Ankunft und Briitezeit einiger nordame- 
rikanischen Zugvogel. Zool. Gart. 1871, pp. 10-18. 
Notes calling for no particular remark. 
CouEs, Elliott. Notes on the natural history of Fort Macon, 
N. C., arid vicinity. P. Ac. Philad. 1871, pp. 12-47. 
Excellent[field-notes, these-on the Grallce and Anser^hem^ 
especially interesting. 
/ Grayson, A. J. On the Physical Geography and Natural History 
of the Tres Marias and of Socorro, off the western coast of 
Mexico. P. Bost. Soc. 7 June, 1871. 
(^Edited by Mr. Lawrence, the author having died of fever 
caught while exploring the Isabel Islands. Col. Grayson visited 
