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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
This. volume contains notices of such birds of the country as are of most 
interest to the sportsman, but written with more attention to scientific accu- 
racy than is usual in works of this character, though no information of any 
great value to the naturalist is given. Those of the plates represent species 
oiOallmcs, (C/. Ibis, 18G7, pp. 125, 120.) 
Lawrence, G. N. Catalogue of Birds observed on New York, 
Long and Staten Islands, and the adjacent parts of New 
Jersey. Ann. Lye. N. H. New York, 1866, pp. 279-300. 
Three hundred and twenty-seven species are mentioned, among them the 
European Passer domesticus and Scolojmx rusticola. The first has been in- 
troduced purposely. 
Lord, John Keast. The Naturalist in Vancouver Island and 
British Columbia. London : 1866. 2 vols. small 8vo, 
pp. 358 and 375. 
The author was Naturalist to the British North- American Boundary Com- 
mission, and therefore had good opportunities of studying the habits of vari- 
ous animals about which little has hitherto been known. Not much that is 
new, however, respecting ornithology is recorded in the work. The ^Ap- 
pendix ’ contains (ii. pp. 291-301) a list of the 226 species of birds collected 
by Mr. Lord, in which none of any remarkable interest occur. Pedioccetes pTia-’ 
sianellus and Selasphorus rufus form the subjects of two bad woodcuts. The 
work is very carelessly printed, and has no index. (Cf. Ibis, 1807, p. 120.) 
Muller, J. W. von. Beisen in den Vereinigten Staaten, Canada 
und Mexico. 3 vols.* Leipzig; 1864, 1865. 3 vols. Boyal 
8 VO. 
We last year noticed (Zool. Becord, ii. p. 80) a separately printed copy of 
a list of Mexican Birds. This copy seems to have been only a proof ; for 
several alterations appear to have been made in the list as now published 
(op, cit. iii. pp. 551-594). Six hundred and eleven species only are included, 
of which four, Troyon erythro}iotus, Tachyphonus schlaginhoeiti, Melospiza 
pectoralis, and Aimophila (lege Ilcemophila) tolteca are described as new. 
Weiz, Samuel. List of Vertebrates observed at Okkal^ La- 
brador. Proc. Boston Soc. N.H. x. pp. 264-277. 
The birds enumerated (pp. 267-269) are about eighty-five in number, of 
which twenty-five are said to breed in the district. Their Eskimaux names 
are added, but no further remarks are made on them. 
NEOTROPICAL REGION. 
Bryant, Henry. A List of Birds from Porto Rico, presented 
to the Smitlisonian Institution. Proc. Boston Soc. N. H. 
X. pp. 248-257. Journ. fiir Orn. 1866, pp. I8I-I9I. 
The birds were presented by Messrs. Swift and Latimer. 
Three appear to be described as new, belonging to the genera 
Tyrannus, Todus, and Tanagra [Spindalis). Local varieties of 
species of MimuSj Certhiolay Fi'ingilla {Phonipara) y Icterus, and- 
* The third volume is also published separately as ^ Beitriige zur Ge- 
schichte, Statistik und Zoologie von Mexico.' 
