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largely on his own researches, and his 

 list of 323 species and subspecies is evi- 

 dence of his diligence afield When we 

 note, however, that such species as the 

 Nashville, Canadian, and Wilson's Warb- 

 lers and Common Tern have not as yet 

 been reported from Louisiana, it is clear 

 that the state still offers a profitable field 

 for the faunal ornithologist. Professor 

 Beyer's work is well done, but we would 

 suggest that more critical examination of 

 his material would perhaps cause him 

 to change his identification of several 

 species; among them " Tynnfanuchiis 

 arncricatnis," which, as he records it only 

 from the south-western part of the state, is 

 probably T. a. al tzcaleri : "Ammodramiis 

 caudacutus, which is doubtless A. nelsoni; 

 and '^Ammodramiis maritimus," which 

 presumably is A. m. fisheri. These, how- 

 ever, are minor defects, and the paper as a 

 whole bears evidence of care in its prep- 

 aration, which makes it a trustworthy 

 source of reference. — F. M. C. 



Preliminary List of Birds, Resident, 

 Visitant, Migrant, or Accidental, 

 Observed in the Vicinity of Man- 

 chester, N. H. Compiled by Fred- 

 erick W. Batchelder, assisted by 

 Edward H. Fogg. Proc. Manchester 

 Institute of Arts and Sciences. Vol. 

 I, 1899, pp. 123-138. 



This is a briefly annotated list of 132 

 species, and is designed to form a work- 

 ing basis for further observation. It is 

 an outgrowth of the activity of the orni- 

 thological section of the Manchester In- 

 stitute and the ' Reports of the Meetings' 

 of this section which precede the 'List' 

 (pages 117-121) should prove both sug- 

 gestive and stimulative reading for the 

 members of other societies devoted to 

 the study of birds.— F. M. C. 



Book News 

 Circular No. 29, of the Biological Sur- 

 vey of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 signed by James Wilson, Secretary of Ag- 

 riculture, places the administration of the 

 Lacey Bill, so far as it concerns the impor- 

 tation and preservation of animals, in charge 

 of the Biological Survey, under the im- 

 mediate direction of the Assistant Chief of 



the Survey, — an appointment which all 

 advocates of the Lacey Bill will regard 

 with unbounded satisfaction. This circu- 

 lar also presents the Lacey Bill in full and 

 explains the manner in which it is pro- 

 posed to make its provisions effective. 



Circular No. 28, of the Biological Sur- 

 vey, by Dr. T. S. Palmer, Assistant Chief 

 of the Survey, is a ' Directory of State 

 Officials and Organizations Concerned 

 with the Protection of Birds and Game,' 

 a publication which admirably supple- 

 ments Dr. Palmer's Bulletin No. 12, no- 

 ticed above. 



The increasing demand on the part of 

 the public for information concerning 

 local bird-life is frequently manifested 

 now-a-days by the appearance in the press 

 of popular articles by ornithologists, whose 

 signature gives to their contributions a 

 value not generally to be found in news- 

 paper natural history. Thus we have 

 lately received copies of the San Juan 

 (Porto Rico) 'News,' Detroit 'Free 

 Press, and ' Prince Edward Island Maga- 

 zine,' containing instructive articles on 

 local birds, by G. B. Pratt, H. S. Warren 

 and John MacSwain, respectively. 



The 'Western Ornithologist' — formerly 

 the 'Iowa Ornithologist' — is published on 

 the fifteenth of every other month at Avo- 

 ca, Iowa. It is edited by Chas. C. Tryon, 

 with the assistance of Carl Fritz Henning 

 and David L. Savage, who are to be con- 

 gratulated on both the appearance and 

 contents of their magazine. 



Mr. Reginald Heber Howe, Jr. 's quar- 

 terly ' Notes on Rhode Island Orni- 

 thology,' which is published by the editor 

 at Brookline, Mass., contains interesting 

 records from the state to a study of the 

 avifauna of which it is devoted. 



We learn from the July ' Iris ' that at 

 a recent meeting of the British Ornitholo- 

 gists' Club a resolution was unanimously 

 carried that any member of the " Union" 

 who should become respopnsible for the 

 destruction of certain birds, which the 

 persecutions of egg-collectors threaten to 

 exterminate in Great Britian, should be 

 severely censured by the " Union." 



