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birds in life, especially of birds on their nests, and photographic repro- 

 ductions of original drawings. The scenic illustrations give not only 

 hunting scenes, but views of picturesque localities, more or less related 

 to the haunts of the birds. — J. A. A. 



Publications Received. — Chapman, Frank M. Descriptions of Five 

 apparently New Birds from Venezuela. (Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. XII, 

 1899, pp. 153-156.) 



Cory, Charles B. The Birds of Eastern North America. Water Birds. 

 Part I. Sm. _].to, Field Columbain Museum, Chicago, 1899. 



Farrington, Oliver Cummings. A Fossil Egg from South Dakota. 

 (Field Columbian Museum, Geol. Ser. I, No. 5, 1899.) 



Finsch, Otto. (1) Das Genus Gracula Linn, und seine Arten nebst 

 Beschreibung einer neuen Art. (Notes from the Leyden Museum, XXI, 

 1899, pp. 1-22, pi L. i, ii.) (2) Ueber die Arten der Gattung Theristicus 

 Wagl. {Ibid., pp. 23-26.) 



Gatke, Heinrich. Die Vogelwarte Heligoland. 1-6 Lieferung, 8vo, 

 Braunschweig, 1899. 



Huntington, Dwight W. In Brush, Sedge and Stubble, Parts VI and 

 VII, 1899. 



Knobel, Edward. Field Key to the Land Birds. Illustrated. 121110. 

 Boston, Bradlee Whidden, 1899. $1.75. 



Lantz, D. E. (1) A List of Birds collected by Col. N. S. Goss in Mexico 

 and Central America. (Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 1876-77, pp. 218-224.) 

 (2) A Review of Kansas Ornithology. {Ibid., pp. 224-277.) 



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

 Part XV. 



Montgomery, T. H. Observations on Owls, with particular regard to 

 their Feeding Habits. (Am. Nat., July, 1899. pp. 563-572.) 



Miller, Olive Thorne. The First Book of Birds. i2mo. Boston and 

 New York, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1899. $1.00. 



Rey, Eugene. Die Eier der Vogel Mitteleuropas. Lieferung 1. 8vo., 

 Gera-Untermhaus, 1900. 



Reichenow, Ant., und Fr. Dahl. Die Vogel der Bismarckinseln. Sm. 

 4to, Berlin. 1899. 



Salvadori, Tommaso. Intorno ad una piccola collezione di Uccelli 

 fatta lungo il Fiume Purrari nella Nuova Guinea orentali-meridionale. 

 (Ann. del Mus. Civico di Stor. Nat. di Genova, ser. 2, XIX, 1899, pp. 

 578-582.) 



Schalow, Herman, Einige Bermerkungen zur Vogelfauna von Spitz- 

 bergen. (Journ. f. Orn., July, 1899, pp. 375-3 86 -) 



Stone, Witmer. (1) A New Species of Coccyzus from St. Andrews. 

 (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1899, p. 301.) (2) On a Collection of Birds 

 from the Vicinity of Bogota, with a Review of the South American 

 Species of Speotyto and Troglodytes. (Ibid., pp. 302-313.) 



