68 The Wilson Bulletin — No. Ill 



REVIEW 



Ridgway's Birds of North and Middle America. Part VIII. 



This part of Ridgway's monumental work treats of ttie order 

 Charadriiformes, the Limicolse, Longipennes and Alcidae of the 

 A. O. U. check list. It is well up to the standard of the other parts 

 of the work. Two typographical erros appear, on Plate II, where 

 it reads Oedicnernus instead of Oedicnemus, and on Plate XXVIII, 

 where it reads heerman instead of heermani. Errors in the cita- 

 tions are found on page 534, where the breeding place of the Black 

 Tern is given as Cedar Point, Erie County, Pennsylvania — it should 

 read Ohio — and likewise on page 642, where it reads. Licking Re- 

 serve, Ohio, instead of Licking Reservoir, Ohio. We should like to 

 have seen a few more bibliographical references under some spe- 

 cies, but the material is so voluminous that it is impossible to hunt 

 up all the references and give them in full. We notice that Mr. 

 Ridgway treats Tringa or rather Arquatella ptilocnemis and Uria- 

 ringvia as species proper, and we are in hearty sympathy with 

 this statement, as expressed elsewhere, though on the other hand 

 we think that Cepphus mandtii is only subspecifically distinct from 

 grylle. One is surprised though to see that the U. S. Nat. Mus. has 

 only seven specimens of Endomychura hypoleuca and only three 

 of Craveri on hand. Surely a greater number of specimens should 

 be in the Nat. Museum, and it seems to us could be secured with 

 comparative ease if our government would be more willing to 

 spend money for science. W. F. H. 



