AVES. 
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Saurothera are also characterized. Upwards of forty species 
are noticed, but some only mentioned by name. {Cf. Ibis, 1867, 
pp. 129, 130.) 
Gundlach, Juan. Jlevista y Catalogo de las Aves cubanas. 
Repert. fisico-nat. de Cuba, i. pp. 165-180 (Oct. ^65), 221- 
242 (Nov., Dec. "65), 281-302 (Jan., Feb. "66), 347-363 
(Apr., June "66), 386-403 (Aug., Sept. "66). 
This series of papers is very important, containing as it does 
a complete list of the Birds of Cuba critically drawn up by so 
trustworthy an authority. The first article treats chiefly of the 
general features of the Cuban ornis. Of 257 species found in a 
wild state in the island, 40 are peculiar to it ; and 119, or more 
than half the remainder, are common to North America, but 
the greater number of them are autumnal visitants. These and 
other similar details relating to geographical distribution are 
very clearly set forth in a tabular form. The rest of the series 
consists of a catalogue, with a few synonyms, the local names,, 
and short particulars of habits and the like. To the last article 
are appended four shorter lists, showing the species naturalized, 
escaped from confinement, doubtfully and erroneously enrolled 
as Cuban. No new species are described in these papers. 
Extracts from a lettel of Dr. Gundlach relating to Cuban orni- 
thology are also printed in Journ. f. Orn. 1866, pp. 352-354. 
Guyon, - — . Des animaux disparus de la Martinique et de laGua- 
* deloupe depuis notre etablissement dans ces lies. CompteS 
Rendus, Ixiii. (8 Oct. 1866), pp. 589-593. 
The birds mentioned as extinct are two Aras/’ two Perroquets,” and 
two Perruches f but no scientific names are assigned to them. 
Landbeck, L. (See Philippi, R.A.) 
Lawrence, G. N. Characters of seven new species of Birds 
from Central and South America. Ann. Lyc. N. II. New 
York, 1866, pp. 
. They belong to the families TrocMlidcCy Formicanidce) Dmdrocolaptidcej 
Troylodytida;, and Columhidco, 
Leotaud, a. Oiseaux de Pile de la Trinidad (Antilles) i Port 
d"Espagne [Trinidad]; 1866. 8vo, pp. xx, 560, iv. 
A veiy complete aceount of the ornithology of the island 
above named, when the dififieulties with which the author (work- 
ing without access to good libraries or museums) had to con- 
tend are taken into consideration. Two hundred and ninety- 
seven species are included, three of which are added in an 
Appendix. Each species is fully described, and a few observa- 
tions made on its habits. Four are described as new, Cymindis 
pucherani, Dendrocolaptes altirostris, Empidonax cabanisi, and 
Tachyphonus albispecularis. The avifauna of Trinidad is purely 
South- American, as distinguished from that of the West-Indian 
