AVES. G1 
which is one of much interest, concludes with an account of the 
speeies seen in the Bay of San Pedro. 
CouEs, Elliott. List of the Birds of Fort Whipple, Arizona, &c. 
Proc. Acad.Philad. 1866, pp. 39-100*. (Separately published 
as ' Prodrome of a work on the Ornithology of Arizona.^ 
Philadelphia : 1866. , 8vo, pp. 64.) 
The list is preceded by a brief sketch of the physical features 
of the territory and of the amount of information respecting its 
ornithology published prior to the author^s sojourn there. The 
number of birds noticed as belonging to the district is 244 (one, 
Certhiola flaveola, having been introduced in a MS. note, as our 
copy informs us, by mistake), of which 155 occurred at Fort 
Whipple. The details appended are not very numerous, such 
being reserved for future elaboration; but, as in all Dr. Coues’s 
papers, they are always to the point. Three new genera are 
established — Micrathene {Btrigtd(B), Asyndesmus (Picidae), and 
Podasocys {Charadriida) ; and four species are described as new 
— one belonging to the family Tyrannida, the remainder to 
Vireonida. {Cf. abis,^ 1867, pp. 130, 131.) 
Downs, A. On the Land-Birds of Nova Scotia. Proc. & Trans. 
Nova Scotian Inst. Nat. Sci. vol. i. part iv. pp. 130-136. 
A continuation of tlie paper before noticed (Zool. Record, ii. p. 80), but, 
like that, containing information only of local interest. 
Dresseii, H. E. Notes on the Birds of Southern Texas. Ibis, 
1866, pp. 23-46. 
The concluding portion of the paper noticed last year (Zool. 
Kecord, ii. p. 80). ♦ Altogether the author enumerates 272 
species as occurring in the district, and of nearly all of them 
records his personal observations. One of the most curious 
facts recorded is the domestication of Ortalida maccalli and its 
interbreeding with domestic poultry. 
Elliot, D. G. The Birds of North America. Parts I. and II. 
New York : 1866. Imp. fol. 
This work is to contain life-sized figures of all the Birds of 
North America not figured by Audubon. The species figured 
in the first part are Haliaetus albicilla (Greenland), Campylo- 
rhynchus affinis, Colymbus adamsi, Cardinalis igneus, and Ombria 
psittacula. In the second appear Catliartes burrovianus, Sphy- 
rapicus thyroideus, Bucephala islandica, Podasocys montanus, 
and Chen albatus, [Cf, Ibis, 1866, p. 417.) 
King, W. Boss. The Sportsman and Naturalist in Canada. 
With coloured plates. London : 1866. Boyal 8vo, pp. 334. • 
* The ^ Proceedings’ of the Philadelphia Academy for 18G6 have not been 
received in England. We are therefore unable to furnish the particulars of 
the pagination of this paper, for a separately printed copy of which we are 
indebted to the author’s kind consideration. [See footnote, p. 45.] 
