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pamphlet of four pages, published posthumously and well 

 known to be a forgery ! In this case the bibliographical 

 notes extend to twenty-nine lines (pp. 44-45), while the late 

 R. M. Barrington is dismissed with a ten-line notice. We 

 should have been tempted to deal more briefly with the 

 writers of such works as " The Bird and Insects' Post Office," 

 and many of the topographical works quoted contain nothing 

 of the slightest value or interest ornithologically. It may, 

 however, fairly be urged that it is not possible to dis- 

 criminate, and that in order to make the work as complete 

 as possible, it is necessary to include all. 



A more important point is the accuracy of the citations, 

 and the omissions which must necessarily occur in a work 

 of this kind, however carefully compiled. By way of testing 

 these points we have taken the article on John Cordeaux, 

 which extends to some three pages, with the following result. 



'' Ornithological Notes from N. Lincolnshire," published 

 in the Zoologist for 1884 (pp. 184-186) and 1888 (pp. 59-63) 

 are omitted, as are also papers entitled " Field Notes from 

 N. Lincolnshire in Spring 1888" {Zool. 1888, pp. 241-47), 

 and " Notes on the Occurrence of Pallas's Sand Grouse in 

 Lincolnshire" {torn, cit., pp. 419-423). No reference is 

 given to a paper on " Rare British Birds in the Humber 

 District " {op. cit. 1895, p. 56-59), supplementary to an 

 article on the same subject in 1891. '' Spring Migration 

 in the Humber District" {op. cit. 1891, p. 409-15) is also 

 omitted, as well as a paper " On the Migration of the 

 Yellow Wagtail " {op. cit. 1892, p. 389-91). The '^ President's 

 Address to the Yorks. Nat. Liiion " (1897) is wrongly 

 attributed to the Zoologist of that year. On p. 144, line 13 

 from below, 5031 should be 5061, and on p. 146, line 11 from 

 above, for 207 read 204. It is rather Cjuestionable whether 

 the article on Heligoland {Nat. 1888, pp. 1-12) should have 

 been included. 



The following omissions and errata have also been noted 

 by us in reading through the first two parts. A pamphlet 

 by Dr. Adams, Banchory, and Dr. A. L. Adams, " 0)i Orni- 

 thology as a Branch of Liberal Education,''^ etc. (Aberdeen, 

 1859, pp. viii., 36) contains an annotated List of Birds from 

 Kincardine. A third (abridged) edition of Ansted's The 

 Channel Islands was published in 1893, but the list of birds 

 is omitted, and there are only brief notes on birds (pp. 

 192-194). Mr. J. W. W. Bvmd is the author of a paper on 

 " A Nesting Place of Lams fascus " {Zool. 1889, pp. 131- 

 133). J. H. Dickenson's " Sketch of the Zoology of Stafford- 

 shire," as far as it relates to Birds, was reprinted in the 



