I98 Recent Literature. \k"% 



Grass Finch, Po/ccetes gramineus ; Savanna Sparrow, A mmodramus sand- 

 wichensis savanna ; Chipping Sparrow, Spizella socialist Song Sparrow, 

 Melospiza fasciata / Swamp Sparrow, Melospiza georgiana ; Blue-headed 

 Vireo, Vireo solitarius ; Hermit Thrush, Tardus aonalasckkce pallasii ; 

 Meadowlark, Sturnella magna; Mourning Dove, Zenaidura macroura ; 

 Killdeer, ^Plgialitis vocifera ; Bluebird, Sialia sialis ; Catbirds, Galeos- 

 coptes carolinensis ; Pine Warbler, Dendroica vigorsii. 



Bluebirds and Pine Warblers were decimated. Mockingbirds, Cardi- 

 nals, Florida Towhees, Carolina Wrens, and all Woodpeckers escaped. — 

 Arthur T. Wayne, Mount Pleasant, S. C. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Volume XXVI of the British Museum Catalogue of Birds. 1 — Volume 



XXVI of the British Museum Catalogue of Birds is the last to appear of 

 the twenty-seven volumes constituting this magnificent series, Volume 



XXVII having been previously issued. The first volume of this great 

 work appeared in June, 1S74, the others following at irregular intervals of, 

 in the average, rather less than a year, the last volume having been 

 brought out towards the close of 1S98. As a general work on the birds 

 of the world, no preceding treatise from the time of Linnreus to the 

 present day, is at all to be compared with it in point of completeness or 

 in method of treatment. To say that it marks an era in the history of 

 ornithology is only faintly to imply its vast importance. 



We learn from the Preface of this last volume, by Sir W. II. Flower, 

 Director of the Natural History Department of the British Museum, that 

 this great undertaking was originally projected by Dr. Albert Giinther, 

 his predecessor in the office of Director, " more than twenty-five years 



'Catalogue | of the | Platalea?, Herodiones, Steganopodes, | Pygopodes, 

 Alcae, and Impennes | in the | Collection | of the | British Museum. | — 

 (Plataleas) Ibises and Spoon-bills) | and | Herodiones (Herons and Storks), | 

 by I R. Bowdler Sharpe. | Steganopodes (Cormorants, Gannets, Frigate- 

 Birds, Tropic- | Birds, and Pelicans), Pygopodes (Divers and Grebes), | Alcai 

 (Auks), and Impennes (Penguins), | by | W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. | London: | 

 Printed by order of the Trustees. | Sold by | Longmans & Co., 39 Pater- 

 noster Row, E. C; I B. Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly, W. ; Dulau & Co., 37 Soho 

 Square, W. ; | Kegan Paul, French, TrUbner, & Co., Charing Cross Road, 

 W. C; I and at the | British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, S. 

 W. I 1898. = Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum, Vol. XXVI. Svo, 

 pp. xvii + 687, pll. i-ic, ii, \w, iii, iv, v-vb, vi-viii. 



