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AVES. 
tHis work treats, embodying all the observations of previous authors, and 
adding abundance of new information gathered from the expeditions of 
Dr. Hayden, under the auspices of whose department the work is published. 
OouES, E. Ornithology of the Prybilow Islands. 1873 : 4to. 
Not seen by the Recorders. 
Ball, W. H. Notes on the Avifauna of the Aleutian Islands, especially 
those west of Unalashka. P. Oal. Ac. 1874, pp. 1-12. 
45 species are mentioned. 
PiNSCH, O. Ueber eine Vogelsammlung aus Siidwest - Gronland. Abh. 
Ver. Brem. 1874, pp. 99-117. 
Although the collection here treated of only contains 28 species, the 
notes given by the author are excellent, and contain many valuable 
remarks on several Greenland birds. 
. Vogel. “Die zweite Deutsche Nordpolarfahrt ” (Leipzig: 1874, 
8vo)j ii. Zoologie, 4, pp. 178-239 (with notes by Adolf Pansch). 
Adds 1 1 species to Graah’s 23 from East Greenland. Of these, nearly 
all are found in Iceland, 21 in Spitzbergen, 29 in Arctic America, and 2G 
in Northern Asia. Very detailed descriptions with synonymy are given 
in some instances. See also tom. cit. pp. 240-213 [Oology], for notes by 
Prof. Newton on the eggs found during this expedition. 
Gentry, T. G. On Habits of some American species of Birds. P. Ac. 
Philad. 1874, pp. 96-110. 
Notes on Molothrus pecoris^ Agelaius phceniceus, Sturnella magna, 
Icterus spuri'uSy Corvus americanus, and C. ossi/ragus, Tyrannus carolin- 
ensis, Myiarchus crinitus, Antrosiomus vociferuSj Trochiliis coluhris, 
Coccyzus americanus, Siiidi Melanerpes erythrocephalus, in the State of 
Pennsylvania. 
Lawrence, G. N. Birds of Western aad North-Western Mexico, based 
upon collections made by Ool. A. J. Grayson, Capt. J. Xanthus, and 
Ferd. Bischoff. Mem. Bost. Soc. ii. pp. 265-319. 
316 species are enumerated, with original notes by tjie collectors. 
Ridgway, R. The Lower Wabash Valley, considered in its relations 
to the faunal districts of the Eastern Region of North America. 
P. Bost. Soc. xvi. pp. 304-332. 
The author divides his subject into the following parts: — 1, relation of 
the Lower Wabash Valley to the faunal districts of the Eastern Region 
of North America, and characteristic of its avifauna ; 2, climatic influ- 
ence on colour ; 3, migration and nesting. As a general summary he 
notes : — ^Numbers, found irrespective of season, 77 ; found only in sum- 
mer, 92 ; in winter, 47 ; during spring and fall, 72—a total of 288. 
Number of species breeding, about 155 ; and number of species winter- 
ing, about 155. 
. Catalogue of the Birds ascertained to occur in Illinois. Ann. 
Lyc. N. York, xi. pp. 364-394. 
Gives the occurrence and range of each species. 
. [See Baird, S. F.] 
