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1857 lie expected to be on the Amur, whence we believe he has 
already forwarded many interesting birds. 
4. American Publications. 
Prof. Baird of Philadelphia has reissued his “ Index to the 
General Report on N. American Birds,” noticed in our last 
number, in the shape of a “ Catalogue of North American Birds, 
chiefly in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution.” In this 
shape it forms a convenient list of the birds of the northern 
portion of the New World. We have also received from Pro¬ 
fessor Baird the sheets of the second volume of the f Report of 
the United States* and Mexican Boundary Survey/ relating to 
the birds collected by the expedition. There are many useful 
notes on their localities, habits, &c. from the pens of Dr. Ken- 
nerly, Lieut. Couch, and other well-known observers. This 
Report is intended to be illustrated with 23 coloured plates of 
the rarer species. 
Page's f La Plata, the Argentine Confederation and Paraguay; 
being a narrative of the exploration of the tributaries of the 
river La Plata and adjacent countries during the years 1853-56 
under the orders of the U. S. Government/ contains, in the 
Appendix (p. 599), “ Notes on the birds collected by the La 
Plata expedition,” by Mr. Cassin. Mr. Cassin pronounces the 
collection to be “ one of the most interesting ever made in 
South America,” and to contain “ numerous birds not before 
known.” We hope, therefore, that he intends to give us a 
more complete account of it than is contained in the three 
pages devoted to these rather unsatisfactory notes. We shall 
gladly welcome such a useful contribution to South American 
ornithology. 
The concluding sheets of the i Proceedings of the Academy of 
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia* for last year contain a “ Cata¬ 
logue of Birds, collected by A. A. Henderson at Hakodadi, 
Island of Jesso, Japan, with Notes and Descriptions of Species, 
by John Cassin.” Thirty-one species are mentioned, among 
which are two novelties of the family Sylviidce, namely Lusci- 
niopsis japonica and L. hendersonii. Mr. Cassin promises us an 
