Vol. XIX- 

 1902 



Recent Literature. 'XO'l 



editor of the Magazine 'Outing.' The first of the series is entitled 'The 

 Deer Family/ and is written largely by Theodore Roosevelt, with articles 

 by T. S. Van Dyke, D. G. Elliot, Andrew J. Stone and others, with maps 

 by C. Hart Merriam, and illustrations by Carl Rungus. The first volume 

 is excellent — it could hardly be otherwise under such authorship — and 

 the second is quite up to the standard of the first. 



'Upland Game Birds ' cannot fail to interest alike the sportsman, the 

 ornithologist, and the general reader. Mr. Edwyn Sandys, who is the 

 author of about seven eights of the volume, is a keen field observer and a 

 pleasing writer, whose experience covers the whole field of his subject, 

 including the natural history as well as the sportsman's side, with both 

 of which he is in fullest sympathy. In addition to the rasorial birds, 

 which naturally constitute the bulk of the upland game birds, the work 

 includes the Cranes, the Mourning Dove, the Woodcock, Bartram's or 

 ' Upland ' Plover, and the Golden Plover. Mr. T. S. Xan Dyke writes of 

 the ' Qiiail and Grouse of the Pacific Coast ' (pp. 377-417), while all of the 

 others (pp. 1-374) are treated by Mr. Sandys. Of the eight full-page 

 . plates, illustrating as many species of game birds, five are by Mr. 

 Fuertes, two by Mr. Nugent and one by Mr. Bull. — J. A. A. 



Richmond's List of Generic Terms proposed for Birds during 1890- 

 igoD. ' — This valuable aid to workers in systematic ornithology comprises 

 not only the generic and subgeneric terms proposed since the publication 

 of Waterhouse's well-known ' Inde.x Generum Avium,' some 475 in num- 

 ber, but also includes about 200 overlooked or omitted by Waterhouse, the 

 total number of names here listed being 675. The list is constructed on 

 an exceedingly useful plan, the family to which each genus belongs being 

 indicated, and fossil genera being distinguished from the living ; the type 

 species of each is indicated, and the reason stated for the proposal of names 

 given to replace earlier ones ; and, finally, the derivation of the name. At 

 the end is a classified list of the names, arranged alphabetically under 

 families. The work is thus most admirably planned, and has evidently 

 been executed with great care. Its usefulness cannot easily be overesti- 

 mated. 



A glance over the list suffices to make evident several interesting facts, 

 namely: (i) that of the 475 generic and subgeneric terms published during 

 the eleven years, 1 890-1900, about one fourth relate to extinct forms ; 

 (2) that about one fifth, or nearly 100, have been given "on grounds of 

 purism," or for other needless reasons ; (3) that, despite recent noteworthy 

 activity in this line, only about one tenth of the names given have been 



' List of Generic Terms propose for Birds during the years 1890 to 1900, 

 inclusive, to which are added names omitted by Waterhouse in his *' Index 

 Generum Avium." By Charles W. Richmond, Assistant Curator, Division of 

 Birds. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XXIV, No, 1267, pp. 663-729. May, 1902. 



