AVES. 
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paper generally deserves the best attention of students of the 
Nearctic avifauna. 
Cooper, J. G. The Fauna of Montana Territory. American Na- 
turalist, ii. pp. 596-600, iii. pp. 31-35, 73-84. Corrections, 
p. 224, 
In continuation of the paper noticed last year (Zool. Rec. v. 
p. 7) . The ornithological portion is comprised in the articles 
cited above. Only about 110 species are included. 
■. The Naturalist in California. Tom. cit. pp. 182-189, 
470-481. 
Contains notices of birds seen on the Plains of Los Angeles, 
the Cajon Pass, the Desert, and the Colorado Valley. 
— . Notes on the Fauna of the Upper Missouri. Tom. cit. 
pp. 294-299. 
Includes a good many ornithological notes. 
Dale, W. II., and Bannister, II. M. List of the Birds of Alaska. 
With Biographical Notes. With Descriptions of New Spe- 
cies by Prof. S. F. Baird. Trans. Chicago Acad. Sc. i. 
(1869) pp. 267-325, pis. 27-34. 
This most instructive paper begins by recounting briefly the 
circumstances under which the results were obtained, due credit 
being accorded to the late Mr. Robert Keniiicott, who superin- 
tended the operations carried on by the expedition for exploring 
the line to be adopted by the Western Union Telegraph Company, 
in the course of which that indefatigable naturalist succumbed to 
the hardships of the undertaking, and died at Nulato, on the 
Yukon River. The list includes 212 species, some of which are 
altogether new to science, while others (a not less interesting 
fact) are new to the American fauna ; and field -notes upon nearly 
all are appended. The great importance of this paper lies chiefly 
in the fact that it proves the occurrence, not merely as accidental 
visitors to, but as regular inhabitants of Alaska, of many forifas 
hitherto believed to be exclusively confined to the Old World. 
It seems to be very well drawn up. [See Baird, S. F.] 
Elliot, D. G. The new and heretofore unfigured species of the 
Birds of North America. Parts XIII.-XV. New York : 
1869. Imp. fol. 
The conclusion of this great work, begun in 1866, and now 
completed in two volumes, with an introduction of some length 
(pp. 19), wherein the validity of several of the species figured is 
questioned, and in the case of some denied. The species figured 
(of some of them the heads only, upon wood) will be mentioned 
in our special part, as well as the chief identifications. \^Cf. Ibis, 
1870, pp. 277,278.] 
