Recently published Ornithological Works. 381 



done well in preparing the two works mentioned above. The 

 first is an index to the eleventh and last volume of ' Stray 

 Feathers ' (unfortunately incomplete) ; the second is a 

 systematic and alphabetical index to the whole series of 

 eleven volumes o£ the same work. Mr. Chubb could hardly 

 have spent his " leisure time during the past two years " in 

 a manner more useful to ornithologists, who, we are sure, 

 will be grateful to him for the facilities thus afforded for 

 reference to this important work. 



' Stray Feathers ' is a mine of wealth to those who seek 

 information on Indian birds, though somewhat difficult of 

 access, and Mr. Chubb has now provided a much-needed 

 spade for digging into what was hard to penetrate without it. 

 Dr. Bowdler Sharpe has helped Mr, Chubb with encourage- 

 ment and advice, and Mr. Quaritch has aided by publishing 

 the results of his labours. 



36. Cory on the Birds of Eastern North America. 



[The Birds of Eastern North America. Pt. I. Water-birds ; Pt. II. 

 Land-birds; Key to the Families and Species. By Charles B. Cory. 

 Field Columbian Museum, Chicago : 1899, 8vo.] 



This excellent compendium is on the lines of the author's 

 useful booklets, 'How to know the Shore-birds' and ' How 

 to know the Ducks, Swans, and Geese of North America,' 

 noticed in ' The Ibis,' 1898, p. 3C0. It is profusely illus- 

 trated, the descriptions are remarkably concise, and a more 

 valuable hand-book can scarcely be imagined. We are con- 

 fronted by our old enemy " Podicipidse " for Podicipedidse ; 

 but then, according to the A. O. U. creed (canon xxxi.), a 

 name employed by some one " with little Latin and less 

 Greek" must not be rejected, nor — as it would seem — 

 amended. Mr. Cory naturally follows the Code. 



37. Dubois' ' Synopsis Avium.'' 



[Synopsis Avium. Nouveau Manuel d'Oruithologie par Alphonse 

 Dubois. Fasc. L, Psittaci, Scansores, Pici. Bruxelles, 1899. 8vo, pp. 80.] 



The completion of the ' Catalogue of Birds in the British 

 Museum' has rendered the compilation of new Synopses 



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