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few errors in the rendering of personal names, as Dr. Heemann for Dr. 

 Heermann, and Dr. Holden for Dr. Holder, due doubtless to obscure 

 manuscripts ; and the lists of mammals, fishes and reptiles are marred by 

 serious typographical errors. But these are slight defects in a work 

 otherwise exceedingly creditable. The twenty-five plates give facsimiles 

 of letters from Baird, Sclater and Dresser ; several portraits of the sub- 

 ject of the memoir, of his wife, of Baird, Dr. William Wood, Henry E. 

 Dresser, and Charles Hallock ; views of the Boardman residences at 

 Milltown and Calais, interior views of his Bird Museum at Calais, etc. 

 Boardman's list of ' St. Croix Birds,' originally published in 1862, and 

 thus forming one of the earliest local bird lists of the United States, 

 was republished and brought down to date in the Calais ' Weekly Times ' 

 in 1S99 and 1900 ; this revised list is here republished (pp. 300-316), 

 "without change" except to substitute the A. O. U. nomenclature for the 

 obsolete nomenclature of forty years ago, previously employed on both 

 occasions. It numbers 274 species, briefly annotated. The 'Natural His- 

 tory' Sketches ' would have increased interest had the date and place of 

 publication been added, as has been done in the case of the ' Minor Notes 

 on Natural History.' — J. A. A. 



Pearson's ' Three Summers among the Birds of Russian Lapland.' — 

 This is a narrative of three ^ ornithological expeditions to Russian Lap- 

 land, made respectively' in 1S99, 1901, and 1903. Various points along 

 the coast were visited, considerable time being spent near the mouth of 

 the Ukanskce River, and a trip was made southward from Kola into the 

 interior. The preface gives a brief notice of previous ornithological 

 explorations of the region and of published accounts of them, including 

 his own journey in 1895, recounted in 'Beyond Petsora Eastward.' The 

 observations made during the three journeys take the form of a daily 

 record of the author's experiences and thus have a setting and a freshness 

 that would be lost in a more formal method of presentation ; there being, 

 however, only the briefest suiumarv by species (Appendix I), recourse 

 must be had to the index to find all that has been recorded of any partic- 

 ular bird. But the narrative is not lacking in interest, aside from its 

 ornithological bearings, while the conditions of bird life in this dreary 

 region are thus brought graphically before the reader. Thus, under date 

 of June 2, 1899, at Devkin Bay, we read : "Near the house were fifteen to 

 twenty Shore-Larks (Oiocorys alpestris), feeding on a small piece of 

 uncovered ground ; while two White Wagtails flitted about from doorstep 



1 Three Summers among | the Birds of | Russian Lapland | By | Henry J. 

 Pearson | author of " Beyond Petsora Eastward " | With History of | Saipt 

 Triphon's Monastery | and Appendices ] London | R. H. Porter | 7 Princes 

 Street, Cavendish Square, W. | 1904 — 8vo, pp. i-xvi-|-i-2i6, 68 half-tone 

 plates, and map. 



