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the plumage of the adult female, dissection proved to be a male bird. 
Mr. Sennett is confident that the Turnstone ( Strepsilas interprets) breeds 
along the entire coast of Texas, — certainly an interesting fact, if so. 
The beautiful Ibises obtained, and to which the writer justly gives two 
pages of text, are the white-faced bird, Falcindlus (late Ibis) guarauna; and 
two young birds, entirely green-feathered, place thalassina among the 
synonyms. Is not this species now entitled to be called the ordinary 
North American bird rather than igneus (late ordii ? of modern writers) 1 
The nomenclature of the Ardeidce, or Herons, is based on Mr. Ridg- 
way’s late investigations, and we again have for Ardea egretta, candidissima, 
and ccerulea the genera, respectively, Herodias, Garzetta, and Florida ; also 
Hydranassa tricolor for late Ardea leucogastra var. leucoplirymna ; Di- 
chromanassa rufa for Ardea rufa, and Nyctherodius for Nyctiadea violaceus. 
The whole makes very interesting reading, and is a valuable and welcome 
addition to our increasing file of local list. — H. A. P. 
Maynard’s Birds of Florida. — Part IV of this long-delayed and 
important work,* which has recently appeared, is wholly devoted to the 
family Fringillidce , of which fourteen species are described, carrying the 
group from Chrysomitris to Pipilo. It is illustrated with a fine colored 
plate of the Ipswich or Pallid Sparrow ( Passerculus princeps ), representing 
the adult in spring. To original, somewhat detailed descriptions of the 
different phases of plumage of the various species treated the author adds 
short, very pleasantly written descriptions of their habits. The biograph- 
ical portions generally relate more especially to their life in Florida, as 
observed by the author during many seasons of exploration, covering 
nearly all parts of the State. Mr. Maynard’s long experience as a field 
ornithologist in the “ Land of Flowers,” and his well-known attainments 
as a naturalist, render him eminently fitted for the work he has here 
undertaken. Although the fascicles of the work have thus far appeared at 
rather long intervals (the first part having been issued in 1872), we are as- 
sured that it will now be rapidly pushed forward to completion. — J. A. A. 
Jordan’s Manual of Yertebrated Animals. — We are glad to see 
that the demand for Professor J ordan’s excellent Manual of the Y ertebrates 
of the Northern States has so soon rendered necessary a new edition 4, of 
this important work, and that the second edition has not only been to 
* The Birds of Florida, with the Water and Game Birds of Eastern North 
America. By C. J. Maynard. Illustrated. 4to. Part I Y, pp. 89-112, and 
one Plate. C. J. Maynard & Co., Newtonville, Mass., 1878. 
t Manual of the Yertebrates of the United States, including the District 
east of the Mississippi River, and north of North Carolina and Tennessee, ex- 
clusive of Marine Species. By David Starr Jordan, Ph. D., M. D., etc. Sec- 
ond Edition, revised and enlarged. Chicago: McClurg&Co., 1878. 12mo. 
pp. 407. Price, $2.50. 
