46 ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
MuelleRj F. von. List of Birds permanently occurring [in] or 
periodically visiting the Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1869, pp. 279-280. 
A nominal list of 114 species. 
Ramsay, E. P. Some further remarks on the Cuckoos found in 
the neighbourhood of Sydney, and their Foster-parents. 
[See Oology.'’^] 
Wallace, A. R. The Malay Archipelago &c. [See “ Indian 
Region.^^] 
NEARCTIC REGION. 
Allen, J. J. Notes on some of the Rarer Birds of Massa- 
chusetts. American Naturalist, iii. pp. 505-519. 
A supplement to the autlior^s catalogue, published five years 
previously (Proc. Essex Inst. iv.). Seven species are now 
added to the fauna of the State, making the whole number 300. 
Baird, S. F. On additions to the Bird-fauna of North America, 
made by the Scientific Corps of the Russo- American Tele- 
graph Expedition. Trans. Chicago Acad. Sc. i. (18()9) 
pp. 311-325. [See Dall, W. II., and Bannister, 11. M.] 
A most important paper, showing the occurrence in Alaska of 
several Old-World forms, and containing descriptions of 5 new 
species, which will he found under Sylviidce, Troglodytiday Frwgil- 
lidce (2), and Larid^e, together with that of a “ variety belong- 
ing to Fringillidcej which, we think, is beyond all question a good 
species — besides 3 others, to be further mentioned under Mo- 
iacillid(By Scolopacidcey and Fdecanid<e, now first indubitably 
recorded as American. 
Bannister, II. M. [See Ball, W. H.] 
Brewer, T. M. Sea-side Ornithology. American Naturalist, iii. 
pp. 225-235. 
Popularly written remarks on the birds of the New-England 
coast, and more to the point than are most of the kind. 
Butcher, H. B. List of Birds collected at Laredo, Texas, in 
1866 and 1867. Proc. Ac. Sc. Philad. 1868, pp. 148-150. 
A nominal list of about 90 species, with very brief notes. 
Cooper, J. G. Some recent additions to the Fauna of California. 
Proc. Calif. Acad. Sc. iv. (1868) pp. 3-13. 
Ornithology occupies the most of this paper (pp. 7-1 3) j and it 
contains notes on upwards of 50 species out of 353 now known 
to occur within the limits of the State, an increase of 33 since the 
author’s former estimate in 1862 (op. cit. iii. p. 23). None are 
new ; but additional examples of many only recently so described 
are mentioned as having been obtained by the author, and the 
