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specimens in the Academy's collection labelled f Venezuela' 
and ‘ Cumana.' " 
Through Mr. Lawrence's kindness we have received copies of 
two papers published by him in the f Annals' of the Lyceum of 
Natural History of New York. His notes on Cuban birds contain 
the results of a comparison of some specimens from Hr. Gund- 
lach's and Mr. Eorns's collections with their American repre¬ 
sentatives. Tinnunculus sparverioides of Vigors is considered to be 
distinct from T. sparverius. The Cuban bird, representing Acci- 
piter cooperi of Northern and A. pileatus of Southern America, 
is regarded as different from either, and named A. gundlachii. 
Accipiter fringilloides of Vigors is re-established as distinct from 
A. fuscus of the United States. Of Cymindis wilsoni of Cassin, 
specimens sent by Mr. Forns agree very closely with the original 
description and figure in the Journal of the Philadelphian Aca¬ 
demy. We fear our figure in the first volume of this Journal 
has been somewhat in fault in inducing Mr. Lawrence to sepa¬ 
rate the Gymnoglaux into two species, the white spots being X 
certainly present in the S. Croix bird. We'do not believe that 
Gymnoglaux newtoni is different from G. nudipes; and Mr. Law¬ 
rence seems to have forgotten that the term nudipes was founded 
on specimens from Porto Rico. If there are two species, there¬ 
fore, examples from Porto Rico must be examined before it can 
be asserted that the Cuban bird is “ assuredly the true nudipes ." 
Another new species from Cuba is described as Antrostomus 
cubanensisj representing the continental A.vociferus. The Ben - 
drceca called albicollis is, we suppose, the true B. petechia , as 
recently determined by Mr. Cassin in his paper on the birds of 
St. Thomas, referred to above. Other notes of interest are given, 
upon the specimens received, which belong in all to 27 species; 
and the whole paper forms a very acceptable contribution to our 
knowledge of this peculiar Island-fauna. 
A second paper of Mr. Lawrence, read at the same date (May 
21, 1860), describes two new birds from the Isthmus of Panama, 
Myiarchus panamensis and Phlegopsis macleannani. 
Mr. Elliott's Eupsychortyx albifrenatus } also described in the 
‘ Annals' of the Lyceum of Natural History (April 1860), is 
evidently Ortyx leylandi , Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 62. 
