398 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



of the Birds, their Nesta and Eggs, their Habits and Notes, with Illus- 

 tratious. By H. D. Minot. Second edition, edited by William Brewster. 

 8vo. Boston and New York, 1895.] 



Mr. Brewster lias prepared and edited a new edition of 

 Minot's work, which was originally published in 1876, and 

 appears to have attained an undoubted success in the country 

 to which it relates. Written by a youth of seventeen, as 

 Mr. Brewster tells us, and with little or no outside help, it 

 found favour at once, and has been ranked among the autho- 

 rities on the subject of which it treats for nearly twenty 

 years. In the present edition the editor has introduced little 

 change, except in making the nomenclature conform to 

 that of the " A, O. U.^^ Check-list and in a few smaller 

 alterations. 



Minot^s work owes its influence to its lively and descriptive 

 field-notes. The author, who was a railway manager, un- 

 fortunately lost his life in a collision in 1890. 



In the Appendix Mr. Brewster brings the subject up to 

 date by a chapter on the birds added to the New-England 

 list since the first edition of the work appeared. 



91. Newton and Gadow's 'Dictionary of Birds/ Part III. 



[A Dictionary of Birds. By Alfred Newton, assisted by Hans Gadow. 

 With Contributions from R. Lydekker, C. E. Roy, and R. W. Shufeldt. 

 Part III. London : A. & C. Black, 1874.] 



The third part of the ' Dictionary of Birds,' though dated 

 1894, has only just reached us (May 22nd). We have to 

 thank the publishers for sending it. It contains articles 

 from " Moa " to " Sheathbill,'' many of which are of great 

 interest, while all are full of information and worthy of 

 perusal, though if assistance on a particular point is re- 

 quired it is by no means easy to discover under what head 

 to seek it. 



As regards the Moa, Mr. Lydekker has done well to give 

 his readers a caution about the so-called Dinornis queens- 

 landia. It is more than doubtful, we are told by Capt. Hutton, 

 whether the femur upon which this name was based has any- 

 thing at all to do with Dinornis {cf. Ibis, 1894, p. 306). 



