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ninety-one species, with brief notes on their relative abundance, times of 
migration, etc. The list bears evidence of trustworthiness, and we 
would gladly see it reproduced in a more permanent and accessible form. 
It appears to be a reprint of Mr. H. G. Fowler’s list in “ Forest and 
Stream” (Vols. VI and VII, 1876), with the addition of quite a number 
of species, and additional observations on others. In this list we find 
Antkus ludovicianus recorded as breeding (“ a few remain and breed ”) in 
New York, the authority being Mr. J. B. Gilbert, of Penn Yan, Yates 
County, New York. We know not as yet on what evidence the record 
of so improbable an occurrence is made, but would’suggest that it certainly 
needs strong backing, the locality being climatically and topographically 
so wholly unlike that usually chosen by this exceedingly boreal species as 
its breeding station. In a later issue of the same paper (September 6, 
1877), Mr. Rathbun adds further remarks on Dendroeca ccerulea, and Dr. 
T. J. Wilson on sixteen species, including a few species not given by Mr. 
Rathbun. — J. A. A. 
Brown on the Distribution of Birds in North-European Russia 
— During the last year (1877) Mr. J. A. Harvie Brown has contributed 
a series of important papers upon the distribution of birds in “ North 
Russia,”* in which all information at present accessible is epitomized in a 
series of tables through the use of arbitrary signs or “ symbols.” The first 
paper relates to the region of the Lower Petchora, explored by himself and 
Mr. Seebohm, and is supplementary to a joint paper by these gentlemen 
published in the “Ibis” for 1876 (January, April, July, and October). 
Parts II and III treat of the general range of the birds in European 
Russia, north of the parallels of 58° to 60°, in which are presented in tab- 
ulated form the records relating to this extensive region. The area con- 
sidered embraces (contrary to what the above-given titles might imply ^ 
only that portion of the Russian Empire west of the Ural Mountains, and 
north of about the latitude of St. Petersburg. This is divided latitudi- 
nally, near the parallel of 64° 30', into two regions, a northern and a 
southern, and these are again each divided longitudinally into three re- 
gions. By means of a system of symbols the range of each of the two 
hundred and eighty-one positively identified or authentic species is given 
in tables, in such a way as to indicate the abundance or scarcity of the 
species in each of the several districts. This system of presentation is 
perhaps as satisfactory as any that can be devised short of graphic repre- 
* On the Distribution of Birds in North Russia. Part I. On the Distribution 
of Birds of the Lower Petchora, in Northeast Russia. Part II. Longitudinal Dis- 
tribution of Species North of 64° 30' N. lat., or the Northern Division. Part III. 
On the Longitudinal Distribution of the Birds of the Southern Division (be- 
tween 64|° N. and 58° - 60° N.). By J. A. Harvie Brown. Annals and Maga- 
zine of Natural History, April, July, and September, 1877. 
