Recently pah/is/ied ()rn}fh(j/of//c(il IJ^urks. 505 



98. Loomis on Califonilun IFater -birds. 



[California Water-bird-*. No. IV^. Vicinity of .Monterey in Aulumn. 

 No. V. Vicinity of Monterey in May and early June. By Leverett M. 

 Loomis. Proc. California Acad. Sci. ser. »■>, Zool. ii. nos. 3, 5,. pp. 277- 

 322, 349-363, 1900.] 



We have now received some further numbers of Mr. 

 Loomis's 'California Water-birds' (see 'Ibis,' 1897, p. 135), 

 tlie subject being one to which, as it would appear^ the author 

 devotes special attention. Shearwaters tiavel south on the 

 Monterey coast in enormous flocks. On Sept. 23rcl not less 

 than a quarter of a million "passed in review daring tM'o 

 hours and a half.^' No. V. is devoted to the birds observed 

 off Monterey in May and June. A fine adult male Xeina 

 sabinii was shot on May 1.2lh. 



99. Macoiiii on Canadian Birds. 



[Catalogue of ('an;idian Bird^. Part I. Wat/^r-birds, Callinaceons 

 Birds, and Pigeon^^. By .lohn Mac jun. 8vo. Ottawa, 1900. Pp. i-viii, 

 1-1'18. Price 10 cents.j 



This catalogue, published by the authorities of Geological 

 Survey of Canada, under the editorship of the late Dr. G. 

 M. Dawson, contains not only a list of species, arranged 

 according to the A.O. U. Check-list, but a considerable 

 amount of information as to their distribution and habits. 

 'I'he two volumes of the complete work will treat of the 

 birds of the whole Dominion, including those of Newfound- 

 land, Greenland, and Alaska, and will be a most welcome 

 addition to the scanty number of ornithological works 

 referring to that portion of the globe. The author wishes 

 his book to be practical and popular, but has taken care to 

 make it also scientific, while he has gathered information 

 from all pjssible sources, and has himself visited as many 

 parts of tlie country as possible. Mr. W. Spreadljorongh has 

 been retained to assist him with tlie same object in view, and 

 various correspondents have been laid under contribution. 

 The Orders treated in this Part are Pygnpodes, Lonyipennes, 

 Tubinares, Steyanopodes, Anseres, Herodiimes, Paludicoke, 

 Limicola, Gallince, and Colunibce, the s[)ecimcns in the local 

 Museum being duly noticed in their place. 



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