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ORNITHOLOGIST 



[Vol. 13-Xo. 3 



An Addition to the Fauna of Bristol 

 County, Mass. 



The A rctic Three-toed Woodpecker. 



BV V. 11. (AKl'ENTKH. 



It is with pleasure I am able to record an 

 authentic capture of the Arctic Three-toed 

 \\'n(idpeckcr (C'icoides nr<-ticns) at Attleboro, 

 liristol ("ounty, Mass., on .Tanuary 2nd, 1888, 

 by Fredric M. Merck, Esq., of that town. 

 This is I believe, the first observation of this 

 species within the county limits. 



Publications Received. 



Catai.ogl'e of Canadian Birds is the title 

 of a volume of 143 pages, handsomely l>ouud in 

 cloth and published by J. & A. McMillan, of i-it. 

 John, X. B. 



The ornithology of the dominion of Canada 

 has never received an adequate representation 

 in any hitherto published treatise. Presenting 

 as it does n. vast field for research, with but 

 limited corps of observers, the knowledge of 

 its avi-fauna is limited, and in this, Mr. Cham- 

 t>erlain"s Catatvgue of Cimadian Birds, we rec- 

 ognize a very successful eftbi-t to systeinize a 

 complete list of the birds of Canada, as far as 

 faithful work on the part of the author, assisted 

 by numerous observers, can accomplish. Mr. 

 Chamberlain has made his catalogue very brief, 

 omitting all synonyms, and avoiding the usual 

 technical expressions, and in this volume we 

 find an example of what its author once advo- 

 cated in the pages of the magazine, ^'■Plain Eng- 

 lish." For personal convenience, if not for 

 other reasons, we wish that Mr. Chamberlain 

 had consecutively numbered the species, but 

 careful counting gives a total of 54.5 as cata- 

 logued, with an appendix in which eleven spe- 

 cies, are either re-catalogued, as by latest nom- 

 enclature, or given as of probable occurrence. 



The annotations given to each species are 

 brief but embodying all necessary references 

 and stalcments of distribution. A very com- 

 j)lete index gives ready reference to any portion 

 of the catalogue, and Mr. Chamberlain deserves 

 appreciation for this, an initial work, which 

 should not halt at this stage of incompletion, 

 in the task of defining Canadian ornithology. 



BiuDS AND Eggs from the Fakrallon is- 

 land is the title of a very interesting paper 

 by Mr. Walter E. Bryant, and read before the 



California Academy of Sciences. The paper is 

 based on the notes of Mr. W. Otto Emerson 

 and gives a very substantial amount of informa- 

 tion regarding the ornithology and oology of 

 that island. It gives annotations on 81 species, 

 and contains a map of Farrallon Island by Mr. 

 Emerson. 



Brewster, William — Three new forms of 

 Xorth American Birds from The Auk Vol. IV 

 No. 1, April. 1887. 



Descriptions of Supposed New Birds from 

 Lower California, Sonora and Chuhuahua, Mex- 

 ico and the Bahamas from Thf Ank, Vol. V, 

 No. 1, Jan. 1888. 



On three apparently new Sub-species of Mex- 

 ican Birds (Author's Edition) advance sheets. 

 Auk, Vol. V, No. 2, April 1888. 



American Naturalist. 



.\rnerii-an Journal of Psychology. 



Collector's Magazine. 



Common Sense. 



Canadian Entomologist. 



Forest and Stream. 



Ottawa Natuialist. 



The Auk. 



Transactions of N. V. Academy of Science. 



AVest Ameiican Scientist. 



Corrections. 



In the January O. and O., in the notes of 

 "The Shore-bird Migration at Monomoy Island, 

 Cape Cod, Fall of 1877,'" I notice several slight 

 errors and omissions that I should like to cor- 

 rect. 



On page (!, secoud column, in the notes of 

 Sept. 12. "Red-breasted Sandpipers" should be 

 " Ked-backed Sandpipers." 



In notes of Sept. loth, there is an omission of 

 " young," from before " plumage." 



Page 7, first column, in notes of Sept. 20, 

 " Semipalmated Plover and Sandpipers," should 

 have " tolerably common" added, which is 

 omitted. 



Page 8, first column, the bottom notes should 

 be dated, " Oct. 27," in place of " Oct. 2G." 



Page 9, first column, Nov. 14 notes, in fifth 

 line, " in " should be changed to " on." 



J. C. Cahoon. 



