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"The species treated number 317 as against 302 in the first edi- 

 tion, to which nearly 400 pages of the work are formally devoted, 

 giving about a page and a quarter to each species. The techni- 

 cal, descriptive portion of the text is printed in small type, the bio- 

 graphical in much larger type. The whole has evidently been 

 carefully revised, and much new matter added to the biographies, 

 which in many instances have been to a large extent rewritten, the 

 recent literature of the subject having been placed under contri- 

 bution. As the author himself says: 'In the present edition, it 

 has been my object to place on record, as far as possible, the 

 name of every bird that- has been observed in Ontario; to show 

 how the different species are distributed throughout the Province ; 

 and especially, to tell where they spend the breeding season. To 

 do this, I have had to refer to the notes of those who have visited 

 the remote homes of the birds, at points often far apart and not 

 easy of access, and to use their observations, published or other- 

 wise, when they tend to throw light on the history of the birds 

 observed in Ontario.' Credit is of course duly given for the infor- 

 mation thus obtained. 



" As ornithologists well know, the author of the ' Birds of 

 Ontario ' is well equipped for his task, and, as would be expected, 

 has done his work well, the second edition being fully abreast of 

 the subject, the few faults of the first edition having been cor- 

 rected, and the more important recent discoveries in the field here 

 covered being duly incorporated. The text is illustrated with 

 numerous cuts, though none of them appear to be here for the 

 first time published. An excellent portrait of the author forms a 

 fitting frontispiece to the volume, which will doubtless prove a 

 boon to the bird lovers of Ontario and adjoining Provinces and 

 States." 



