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varying in elevation. The northern belt, " lying along the southern 

 shore of Lake Ontario, and about Oneida, Ca^-uga and Senaca Lakes," is 

 the lowest. The middle belt is more elevated, consisting of high, rolling 

 plains, " their lowest elevation of looo feet being along an irregular line 

 from Buffalo to Svracuse." The southernmost consists of the northern 

 extremity of the Alleghany Plateau, ranging in elevation from 1500 to 

 2000 feet, and draining southward. This southern belt is the coldest 

 and faunally the most northern, while the northern belt is the warmest 

 and faunallv the most southern, "the influence of altitude, and the 

 modifying effects of the Great Lakes, combining to transpose the nor- 

 mal positions of the life zones." There thus results a peculiar juxtaposi- 

 tion of species in man}' localities, Canadian and Carolinian species being 

 found breeding side by side, as the Hooded Warbler and the Red-bellied 

 Woodpecker in the same localities with the Junco and the Blackburnian, 

 Black-throated Blue, Canadian, and Mourning Warblers. 



Mr. Eaton's list numbers 297 "definitely recorded" species, 18 species 

 "with indefinite" or doubtful records, 2 species now exterminated, and 

 2 introduced foreign species. The list has evidently been prepared with 

 great care, and is briefiy but quite satisfactorily annotated. The main 

 list is followed by a very extended 'Hypothetical List' of 55 species. 

 While, as the author states, " many of these birds are more liable to be 

 found here than the accidental species which have actually been cap- 

 tured," it is rather stretching the function of such a list to include such 

 accidental Old World ' waifs and strays ' as the Corn Crake, Ruff, and 

 other species of that category. 



The ' Introductory ' (pp. 1-15) gives a very clear account of the physi- 

 cal and faunal characteristics of the region, much explanatory matter 

 relating to the general character and make-up of the lists, a summary, a 

 bibliography, and ' Migration and Residence Tables,' by means of which 

 the seasons of occurrence and relative abundance of all the species are 

 shown graphically. This application of a well-known graphic method 

 we have never before seen introduced into a faunal list ; and now that 

 its utility is so evident the wonder is that it has not been tried before. 



While the use or non-use of capitals in certain connections, and mat- 

 ters of punctuation in general, are perhaps mere trifling matters of taste 

 we trust that certain recent innovations in such matters, here followed, 

 will not be often repeated ; the saving of space, if that be an object, thus 

 accomplished is certainly trifling, and hardly offsets the shock it gives 

 one to see names of groups or of species printed with a lower case initial 

 when used in headings and subtitles. — J. A. A. 



Publications Received. — Bangs, Outram. A New Meadowlark from 

 South America. (Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, II, pp. 55, 56, Feb. 15, 

 1901.) 



Barrett-Hamilton, G. E. H. Notes on the Birds observed during Three 

 Visits to Kamchatka in 1896 and 1897. (Ibis, April, 1900, pp. 271-298.) 



