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Panama and Amazona inomata is for the first time reported from the 

 western side of the Isthmus. — J. A. A. 



Harvie-Brown's Color Code. — At the meeting of the International 

 Congress of Zoology, held in Cambridge, England, in August, 1S98, 

 Mr. J. A. Harvie-Brown read a communication entitled ' On a Correct 

 Colour Code, or Sortation Code in Colours, to serve for mapping the 

 Zoological Regions and Sub-Regions of the World, and also to be of use 

 as an Eye-Index for Librarians,' an abstract of which appears in the 

 ' Procee'dings ' of the Congress (pp. 154, 155). The abstract gives a list 

 of the zoogeographical areas he has adopted, with a list of the colors 

 used for their designation. He adopts two ' Realms,' an Arctic and an 

 Antarctic, the former being divided into six 'Regions,' each of which is 

 subdivided into 'Sub-Regions.' It is intended also to apply the color 

 scheme to the binding of books, and to the edges of library shelves. 

 This is apparently a revival or an extension of a color scheme formerly 

 more or less in vogue for labels for specimens, where the color of the 

 label was made, in the case of recent life, to indicate the geographical 

 area of their origin, or, in the case of fossils, the geological formation 

 from which they were obtained, but which of late seems to have been 

 generally abandoned. For the convenience of those who wish to use 

 Mr. Harvie-Brown's scheme, he gives, attached to his separates, the 

 names of several London dealers who offer to supply the necessary 

 materials for book-binding, etc., in the colors desired. — J. A. A. 



Howe's 'On the Birds' Highway.' 1 — This handsomely printed little 

 book consists of fourteen chapters and, in an appendix, four local lists, 

 without annotation, of birds found at " localities treated in the body of 

 the book." The chapters bear such titles as 'Winter Birds,' ' December 

 by Land and Sea,' ' On the Sands of Ipswich,' ' Late Summer in the Adi- 

 rondacks,' etc., and are, for the most part sketches of various ornithologi- 

 cal excursions, of a very common-place order, from the standpoint of 

 either ornithology or literature. The full page half-tones are chiefly 

 views of scenery, though a few are ornithological, the one of chief inter- 

 est in this respect being an Osprey's nest built on the top of a pole. 

 The text figures are nearly all reproductions of photographs of mounted 

 birds, good for their kind, though often lacking in sharpness. A colored 

 plate of ' Our Friends the Chickadees,' by Mr. Fuertes, and the excellent 

 tvpographical make-up of the book are the features entitled to praise. — 

 J. A. A. 



1 On the I Birds' Highway | By | Reginald Heber Howe, Jr. | With photo- 

 grapic Illustrations by the Author and a | Frontispiece in color from a painting 

 by I Louis Agassiz Fuertes j [Vignette] Boston | Small, Maynard & Com- 

 pany I 1S99. — i2mo.. pp. xvi-f-175, 14 full-page illustrations and 45 text 

 cuts. 



