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PUBLICATIONS REVIEWED 



The Winter Bird Life of Minnesota. By Thomas S. Roberts. Pub- 

 lished as Occasional Paper: No. 1, of the Zoological Division of 

 the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota. Feb- 

 ruary, 1916. With a full page colored plate of the male and fe- 

 male Evening Grosbeak. Published also, without the colored 

 plate, In " Fins, Feathers and Fur," for December, 1915. 



We have here a very complete list of the birds which have been 

 authentically recorded as winter birds within the State. The list 

 includes eighty-five species and five subspecies, and they are listed 

 in four groups, as follows: 



Permanent residents, 32 species, 3 subspecies. 



Winter visitants, 16 species, 1 subspecies. 



" Half hardy," 10 species, 1 subspecies. 



Accidental, 27 species. 



Forty-one are marked as common iii the vicinity of St. Paul and 

 Minneapolis. Copious annotations accompany each species refer- 

 ring to their differential characters, status, etc. Notwithstanding 

 the long list, it seems to have been very conservatively compiled; 

 and in all unusual records data as to time and place are offered — 

 in most cases the observer is also named. This list will be of con- 

 siderable value to students in the adjacent states as well. 



T. C. Stephens. 



