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the birds collected on the survey of the 32nd parallel, by 
Dr. A. L. Heerman : (4.) Upon the birds collected during the 
explorations in California, by Dr. A. L. Heerman. It is a pity, 
the plates, which are nicely done, are not marked with the names 
of the species figured, as this omission causes so much trouble 
in reference. 
For information concerning the first volume of Dr. Brewer's 
valuable work on N. American Oology, we refer our subscribers 
to the Review of this and Herr Badeker's work given above, 
which has been furnished to us by one of our most valued 
correspondents. 
The Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Insti¬ 
tution for the year 1858 contains (p. 153) the “ Instructions 
in reference to collecting nests and eggs of North American 
Birds," which we have before alluded to; also (p. 280) a “ List 
of the Birds of Nova Scotia," compiled, from notes by Lieut. 
Blakiston, R.A., and Lieut. Bland, R.E., made in 1852-1855, 
by Prof. J. R. Willis of Halifax; and a “ List of the Birds of 
Bermuda," by Lieut. Bland, both useful as local lists. 
We have received a separate copy of a paper entitled “ Cata¬ 
logue of Birds collected in the vicinity of Fort Teyon, California, 
with a description of a new species of Syrnium ," extracted from 
the Proceedings of the Academy of Nat. Sc. of Philadelphia for 
July last. The new Syrnium is S. occidentale , of the general 
appearance of S. nebulosum, of which, we suppose, it is the 
Western representative. 
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Since the date of our last Number, another member of our 
Ornithologists' Union has left England to take up his residence 
in a foreign land. Mr. Edward Newton, having received the 
appointment of Assistant Colonial Secretary at the Mauritius, 
started by the Overland route on the 16th of August last, and, 
by the time this announcement is read, will, we hope, have safely 
arrived at his destination. Though there has been a ‘ Soeiete 
