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Whitman's 'The Birds of Old English Literature'. — This is pri- 

 marily a contribution to philology rather than to ornithology, yet it must 

 have much interest for ornithologists who care to know the early forms 

 of English bird names. Some two bundled bird names are here traced to 

 their old English and cognate forms, and the subject presents many 

 points of interest for intelligent readers, whether or not of a philological 

 turn. —J. A. A. 



Publications Received. — Bangs, O. The Florida Meadow Lark (Proc. 

 New Engl. Xo<">l. Club, I, 1899, pp. 19-21.) 



Clark, Hubert Lyman. The Feather-Tracts of North American Grouse 

 and Quail. (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXI, pp. 641-653, pll. xlvii-xlix.) 



Dearborn, Ned. A Preliminary List of the Birds of Belknap and Merri- 

 mac Counties, New Hampshire. Svo, pp. 34, 1898. 



Evans, A. II. Birds. Svo, pp. xvi-f-635, 1S99. Macmillan & Co., 

 London and New York. 



Gurney, J. H. On the Comparative Ages to which Birds live. (Ibis, 

 Jan., 1S99, pp. 19-42.) 



Haase, O. (1) Ornithologische Notizen aus ' St. Hubertus'. (Orn. 

 Monats., 1895-1898.) (2) Untersuchung von Nestern in Ldchern mit 

 Hiilfe von Zuriickgeworfenem Licht. (Zeitsch. fur Oologie, Jan. 1899.) 

 (3) Ornithologische Beobachtungen vom nordlichen Atlantischen Ozean. 

 Von O. Helms. Uebersetzt von O. Haase. (Journ. fur Orn., Jan. 1899.) 



Harvie-Brown, J. A. On a Correct Colour Code, or Sortation of 

 Colours. (Proc. Internat. Congress of Zoology, 1898.) 



Huntington, D wight W. In Brush, Sedge and Stubble, Part V, 1S98. 



Ihering, II. von. As Aves do Estado de S. Paulo, Brazil. (Revista do 

 Museu Paulista, III, 1S99.) 



Lee, Oswin A. J. Among British Birds in their Nesting Haunts. Part 

 XIII, 1S99. 



Madarasz, Julius von. Description of a New Ground Thrush: Geoci- 

 clila frontalis. (Termeszetrajzi Fiizetek, XXII, 1899, pp. ; 11-113, pi. viii.) 



Nash, The Birds of Ontario in Relation to Agriculture. Svo, pp.32, 

 Toronto, Ontario Dept. of Agric, 1S9S. 



Schalow, Herman. Die Vogel der Sammlung Plate. (Zool. Jahrb. 

 Supple. IV, Drittes Heft, 1898.) 



Scalter, W. L. On a collection of Birds from Inhambane, Portuguese 

 East Africa. (Ibis, Jan. 1S99, pp. m-115.) 



Stejneger, Leonhard. The Birds of the Kurile Islands. (Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., XXI, pp. 269-296.) 



1 The Birds of Old English Literature. By Charles Huntington Whitman, 

 Fellow in English at Yale University. Svo, pp. 50. Reprinted from The 

 Journal of Germanic Philology, Vol. II, No. 2, 1898. 



