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90 Species of birds found nesting in the Catskill region, with exhaustive 

 remarks on the floral and faunal areas represented. This hst of 54 pages 

 gives us otir first definite and rehable knowledge concerning the Canadian 

 fauna which inhabits the summits of the Catskills. 



Oitr Birds and Their Haunts, by Rev. J. H. Langille (Estes & Lauriat, 

 Boston, 1884) is an extreme!}- interesting volume devoted to the commoner 

 native birds of the northeastern states. A large portion of the records 

 refer to western New York where the author formerh* resided. 



Birds of Chautauqua County, l^y John M. Edson, is an address delivered 

 before the Chautauciua Society of History and Natural Science, in James- 

 town, N. Y., January 29, 1885. It is a briefly annotated list of 152 species. 



.4 List of the Birds of Onondaga County, bv Morgan K. Barnum, Syracuse 

 Universitv, 1886, is a reliable list of 204 species. 



.4 ;; ,4 nnotaled List of tlic F^irds of Oneida County, N. V., and its hnnicdiate 

 Vicinity, by William L. Ralph M.D., and Egbert Bagg, Oneida Historical 

 Societv, volume 3, page 10 1, 1886, is an exhaustive and reliable list. 

 Together with the additions which have appeared in the A^ik up to 1900, 

 the Oneida county list contains 248 species, of which 109 have been found 

 Ijreeding in that vicinity. 



Birds of Xiagara County, X . Y ., by James L. Davison, appeared in 

 Forest and Stream, in 1889, and names 204 species, with 93 breeding in the 

 countv. 



.4 List of the Birds of Buffalo and Vicinity, b}- W. H. Bergtold, M. D., 

 from the Bulletin of the Buffalo Naturalists Club, volume i, number 7, 

 1889, mentions 237 species very brieflv and gives 1 1 1 as breeding near Buffalo. 



An Annotated List of the Birds Known to Occur zuitJiin Fifty Miles of 

 New York City, by Frank M. Chapman, American Museum of Natural 

 History, 1894, and a revised edition of the same in the American Museum 

 Journal, volume 6, numbers 2 and 3, 1906, names 348 species in the first 

 edition and 353 in the second, besides three extirpated species, four species 

 liberated but not established, one doubtful and not counted (Stomiv petrel), 

 and three forms not regarded as valid soecies. Mr Chapman's nesting and 



