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THE OSPREY. 



Everyday Birds. Elementary studies by 

 Bradford Torrev: with twelve illustrations in 

 color after Audubon and two from photographs. 

 Boston and New York. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 

 1891. [Square 12 mo. pp. 1-106. Price $1.00. ] 



In "Everyday Birds" Mr. Torrev describes 

 and treats in a simple and interesting' manner a 

 number of the most common and more conspicu- 

 ous forms of Eastern North America. The little 

 volume is divided into twenty-one chapters as 

 follows: 



1. "Two Kings." The Ruby Crown and Gold 



Crest. 



2. "The Chickadee." 



,i. "The Brown Creeper." 



4. "The Brown Thrasher." 



5. "The Butcher Bird." 



6. "The Scarlet Tanager." 



7. "The Song Sparrow." 



8. "The Field Sparrow and the Chipper." 



9. "Some April Sparrows. " A general discus- 



sum of the family followed by notes mi 

 the Purple Finch, Fox. Song, Tree. Vi- 

 per, Field and White-throated Sparrows, 

 in. "The Rose-breasted Grosbeak." 



11. "The Blue Jay." 



12. "The Kingbird." 



13. "The Humming Bird." 



14. "The Chimney Swift." 



15. "Nighthawk and Whip-poor-will." 



16. "The Flicker." 



17. "The Bittern." 



18. "Birds for everybody." A chapter on feed- 



ing birds in winter. A chapter on spring 

 migration. A chapter on fall migration. 



19. "Winter Pensioners." 



2n. "Watching' the Procession." 

 21. "Southward Bound". 



The twelve plates are reproduced from Alt- 

 dubon by the three-plate color- photoprocess. 

 They represent the Blue Jay. Golden-crowned 

 Kinglet. Chickadee, Brown Creeper, Brown 

 Thrasher, Scarlet Tanager, Song Sparrow, 

 Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Ruby-throated Hum- 

 ming Bird, Nighthawk. Whip-poor-will, and the 

 Flicker. The two half-tones are of the Downy 

 Woodpecker and the Chickadee. 



Norton on Labrador Birds.* Mr. Arthur 

 H. Norton here treats of 32 species collected in 

 Southern Labrador during the summer of 1891. 

 Tin- Mourning Dove. Zenaidura macroura and 

 the Prairie Horned Lark, Otocoris alpestris pra- 

 ticola, both probably strays, are added to the 

 list of Labrador birds. A specimen of Net/ion 

 crecca is also reported. The status of the Puftins 

 and of the Spruce Grouse have been critically 

 examined. As one result Mr. Norton sug- 

 gests that the oldest tenable name for the 

 American Puffin is Mormon glacialis of Tem- 

 minck. This would make our bird Fratercula 

 arctica glacialis Temminck. Incidentally in a 

 footnote to page 144 Naumann's Mormon glacia- 

 tis is renamed Fratercula arctica naumanni. 



As a result of study and discussion of the 

 literature of the Spruce Grouse, Mr. Norton 

 reverses Mr. Bangs' recent treatment of these 

 birds, and sums up as follows: "Therefore, the 

 name Canachites canadensis Linn, must be re- 

 stricted to the Spruce Grouse of Labrabor and 

 Hudson's Bay, while Canachites canadensis ran arc 

 (Linn. I must be brought forward for the form 

 inhabiting portions of Canada, the Northern 

 United States and New Brunswick." 



A diagrammatic plate of the bill of Puffiins 

 completes a very good paper, W. P. 



Birds of t lie Bowdoin College Expedition to Labrador iu istu > Proc. Portland Soc. N. II.. Vol. ii. May 20, 1901, 



