114 Recent Literature. 



Mrs. Maxwell's work was accomplished, was prepared by a sister of the lady- 

 naturalist. The main text of the work is intended for the general public, 

 and as an answer to the thousand-and-one questions asked by the eager 

 crowd that daily thronged the Colorado building during the days of the 

 Centennial Exposition, in reference to the " wonderful woman " and her 

 remarkable work ; but in an " Appendix " of twenty pages are given anno- 

 tated li-ts of the mammals anil birds represented in the collection, the 

 former by Dr. Coues and the latter by Mr. Ridgway. The list of mam- 

 mals is here for the first time printed, but the report on the birds appeared 

 first in " Field and Forest" (Vol. II, pp. 194 - 199) in the early part of 

 the year 1877.* Dr. Coues pays well-merited compliments to her artistic 

 skill and the scientific value of her collection, and refers to the pleasure it 

 gave him "to see a collection of our native animals mounted in a manner 

 far superior to ordinary museum work, and to know that there was ai least 

 one lady who could do such a thing, and who took pleasure in doiug it," 

 and further speaks of it " as one of the most valuable single collections " he 

 had seen. Mr. Ridgway says the collection of birds " consi>ts of excellently 

 mounted specimens," and " illustrates very fully the avian Fauna of Colo- 

 ratio, while it bears testimony, not only to the great richness and variety 

 which characterize the productions of the new State, but also to the suc- 

 cess which has crowned the enthusiastic and intelligent efforts of a ' woman- 

 naturalist.' " " The collection," he continues. " embraces many species 

 whose occurrence in Colorado was wholly unlooked for ; such as Nycthe- 

 rodias violaceus, Garzelta candidissima, and Tantalus loculator among 

 Southern species, and Stercorarius parasiticus, Xema sabinei, and CEdemia 

 americana from the high North." The list of birds numbers 234 species 

 and varieties, among which Mr. Ridgway describes one new variety (Scops 

 asio, 6. maxwellke), as well as specimens of other -pedes of peculiarly 

 interesting phases of plumage. The annotations relate mainly to an 

 enumeration of the specimens represented, but occasionally to facts of 

 distribution and locality of occurrence. — J. A. A. 



Maynard's Birds of Florida^ — The first part of a work with the 

 above attractive title was issued in 1872, followed by parts two and three 

 in the two following years. After an interval of tour years the fourth X aid 

 subsequent numbers appeared, and the eighth part has just been received. 

 The title of these later numbers has been extended to include the Water 

 and Game Birds of Eastern North America, though it would seem as if 

 these might more appropriately have been made the subject of another 

 Beries. 



* See 1 1 lis Bulletin, Vol. II, p. 7."', where the 1 1 — t i^ Bimply referred to by 

 title. 



t The Birds of Florida, with tic Water and Game Birds of Eastern North 

 America. By <'. J. Maynard. Illustrated. Published by C. J. Maynard k 

 Co., New tunville, Mass. 



* A notice of this number was published in the Bulletin of July, 1878. 



