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‘‘ An important article, very critical, complete and workmanlike, bring- 
ing the subject up to date. * * * I hold it for a model of this sort of 
work.”—Coues. Names as Ohioan, Contopus borealis, Harelda glacialis, and : 
CGidemia americana. New species, 1. 
1878. Battovu, W. H. The Natural History of the Islands of Lake 
Hrie.< Field and Forest, 111, 1878, pp. 185-137. 
Thirty-eight species given by their common names, 30 breeding. 
1878. Cours, Eitiorr. Department of the Interior. United States 
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Geologist-in-Charge. Miscellaneous Publications.—No. 11. 
Birds of the Colorado Valley, a repository of scientific and 
popular information concerning North American Ornithology. 
By Hlliott Coues. Part First. Passeres to Laniide. Biblio- 
graphical Appendix. Seventy IDlustrations. Washington. 
Government Printing Office. 1878. 
Mentions Sitta pusilla, Dendreca kirtlandi, Ampelis garrulus and Lanius 
ludovicianus as Ohioan. 
1878. Lanepon, F. W. Observations on Cincinnati Birds. By Frank 
W. Langdon.< The Journal of the Cincinnati Society 
of Natural History, Oct., 1878. : 
Interesting and valuable notes on 54 species, Alauda arvensis, introduced, 
acclimated and breeding. 
1878-9. BrewsrrR, W. Descriptions of the First Plumage in various 
species of North American Birds.< Bull. Nutt. Club, Vol. 
III-IV, 1878, 1879. 
* Describes from Ohio specimens, Vol. iii, p. 121, Chondestes grammica, 
jirst plumage ; p. 122, Euspiza americana, first plumage; p. 177, Empidonax 
acadicus, first plumage ; Vol.iv, p.41, Euspiza americana, autumnal plum- 
age, young. The same (1859) reprinted and repaged, pp. 1-39. 
1878—. Jones, G. H. and SHuuzx, HK. J. Illustrations of the Nests and 
Kegs of the Birds of Ohio with text. By Genevieve HW. Jones 
and Hliza J. Shulze. Circleville, Ohio. 
‘*Too late for the fuller notice we may hope to give hereafter comes to 
us the first number of a beautiful work, which we sincerely hope may be 
successiully completed according to the announced design of the lady 
authors. Part I contains figures of the nests and eggs of Icterus baltimore, 
Turdus mustelinus, and Coccygus erythrophthalmus, colored by hand, printed 
on Whatman’s antiquarian drawing-paper, and forming three of the most 
exquisite pictures of bird-homes we have ever seen. Each plate has its 
sheet of letterpress, which fitly illustrates these artistic plates. The work 
is to appear, if it meets with sufficient support, in parts of three plates 
each, to be completed in about thirty parts; it is published by subscription, 
