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a good species. It also embraces specimens of the rare K uhl's Parrot 
( Goriphilus Jcuhli ) of the Fanning Islands, the precise habitat of which is 
now for the first time determined, and three new species, one of which, 
Puffinus ( Nectris ) nativitatis , from Christmas Island, is here for the first 
time described. The others are a Gallinule ( Gallinula sandvicensis , Streets, 
Ibis, 1877, p. 25) from the Hawaiian Islands, and a Duck (Chaulelasmus 
couesi, Streets, Bull. Nut. Orn. Club, Vol. I, 1876, p. 46) from Washing- 
ton Island. The breeding habits and eggs of Graver’s Auk ( Brachyrliam - 
phus craveri ) are also described, and there are many valuable biographical 
and other notes on several hitherto little known species. — J. A. A. 
Bendire’s Notes on the Birds of Southeastern Oregon. — In a 
list embracing one hundred and ninety-one species and varieties, Captain 
Bendire * gives the results of field observations made in the vicinity of 
Camp Harney, Oregon, covering a considerable period. Aside from some 
former notes by the same author,! which treated more especially of the 
winter birds of this locality, we have here our first detailed information 
respecting the ornithology of the immediate region under consideration. 
Camp Harney, the central point, is situated on the southern slope of one of 
the western spurs of the Blue Mountains, and has an altitude of about 
four thousand eight hundred feet. The country to the northward is moun- 
tainous, and well forested with pine, spruces, and fir, intermixed with 
groves of aspen and juniper ; in all other directions it is open, consisting 
of desert wastes of sagebrush and greasewood, with here and there more 
fertile tracts covered with nutritious grasses. As would be naturally ex- 
pected, fully one half of the species are emphatically Western, or are 
represented by Western varieties. The fauna is distinctly, however, that 
of the Middle Province, although a few forms usually considered as con- 
fined to the Pacific slope are here represented. The list is enriched with 
copious biographical notes, including descriptions of the breeding-habits, 
nests, and eggs of a large number of the less well-known species, and 
forms a most important contribution to the ornithology of the West. — 
J. A. A. 
Eidgway’s Report on the Ornithology of the Fortieth Par- 
allel. — This long-delayed work X has by no means lost its importance 
* Notes on some of the Birds found in Southeastern Oregon, particularly in 
the Yicinity of Camp Harney, from November, 1874, to January, 1877. By 
Captain Charles Bendire, U. S. Army. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. 
XIX, pp. 109-149, Nov. 1877. 
t Notes on Seventy-nine Species of Birds observed in the Neighborhood of 
Camp Harney, Oregon, compiled [by Dr. T. M. Brewer] from the Correspond- 
ence of Captain Charles Bendire, 1st Cavalry U. S. A. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 
Hist., Vol. XVIII, pp. 153- 168, Nov. 1875. 
J Report of Geological Explorations of the F ortieth Parallel. Clarence King, 
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