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it may be of interest to the author to know that the American Museum of 

 Natural History in New York has also a mounted specimen of the Great 

 Auk, where it has been anions; its prominent exhibits for the last twenty 

 years. — J. A. A. 



Huntington's 'In Brush, Sedge, and Stubble.' 1 — Mr. Huntington's 'In 

 Brush, Sedge, and Stubble' appeals alike to the sportsman, the naturalist, 

 and the lover of art. The work is proposed as a series of " monographs 

 on our feathered game," '-written from the point of view of the sports- 

 man, with a preference for the picturesque rather than the scientific ... .In 

 a word, we go out-of-doors from Montauk to San Lucas, and, listening 

 to the whirring and whistling of wings, we observe the performance of 

 dogs, and see America picturesque." The first two parts treat of the 

 sage Grouse, the Sharp-tailed Grouse, and the Prairie Grouse. 



The illustrations consist of half-tones from photographs of the birds 

 described, and of hunting scenes and characteristic landscapes of the 

 regions inhabited by the game under consideration, partly from nature 

 and partly from sketches, principally by the author. 



The illustrations are beautifully reproduced, abundant, picturesque, 

 and exceedingly attractive. The text is very good ornithology, written, 

 as stated by the author, from the sportsman's point of view, with more or 

 less personal incident interspersed. All lovers of finely illustrated books 

 relating to nature, and especially all sportsmen, will doubtless warmly 

 welcome Mr. Huntington's 'In Brush, Sedge, and Stubble.' — J. A. A. 



Oberholser on the Wrens of the Genus Thryomanes. 2 — The present 

 paper of thirty pages deals with the Wrens of the bexvickii group, of 

 which 3 species and 12 additional subspecies are recognized, all the 

 latter being variations, in most instances not strongly marked, of 

 Thryothoriis {Thryomanes) bezvickii of the A. O. U. Check-List. The 

 group ranges across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and 

 from Pennsylvania, southern Minnesota, Colorado, and southern British 

 Columbia southward to southern Mexico (Oaxaca), including the 

 Socorro and Guadalupe Islands, off the west coast of Mexico. Of the 

 12 subspecies of T. bewickii, seven belong to the United States, the 

 remaining five occurring in Mexico. In other words, 7 new sub- 



1 In I Brush, Sedge, and Stubble | A Picture Book of | the Shooting- 

 fields and Feathered | Game of North America | By | D wight W. Hunting- 

 ton I . . . . [= motto, 3 lines] | M D C C C X C VIII | The Sportsman's 

 Society | Cincinnati. — Folio, Pt. I, pp. 1-16; Pt. II, pp. 17-32; 2 pll. in 

 half-tone and 2 in colors, and numerous half-tones in text. 



2 A Review of the Wrens of the Genus Thryomanes Sclater. By Harry 

 C. Oberholser, Assistant Biologist, Department of Agriculture. Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., Vol. XXI, No. 1153, pp. 421-450. Nov., 1898 



