SOME NEW BOOKS 



A Dictionary of Birds. By Alfred Newton, assisted by Hans Gadow.'with Con- 

 tributions from R. Lydekker, C. S. Roy, and R. W. Shufeldt. Part I. 8vo, 

 illustrated. London : A. & C. Black, 1893. Price 7s. 6d. nett. 



The appearance of a general work on birds by an ornithologist of the 

 long experience of Professor Newton may well be regarded as marking 

 an epoch in the science of which it treats ; and the foretaste aitorded 

 by the issue of this instalment leads us to beHeve that this opinion 

 will not be behed when the whole volume is completed. Like certain 



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other zoological works issued by the same enterprising publishers, 

 the manual before us is based upon a series of articles written by 

 its author for the ninth edition of the " Encyclopaedia Britannica " ; 

 but, we believe, the new matter is in this instance still greater than 



