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country or even on sections of tree trunks as large as themselves ; and in 

 the present case of full-page plates, the technique we have is perhaps 

 preferable. 



We wish this book all the success it so thoroughly well merits; and 

 should that be its happy lot, perhaps the eminent author will not for°-et 

 that some other groups of game-birds might be treated in the same 

 manner, with equally good results. — E. C. 



Some Canadian Birds. 1 — Mr. Chamberlain's very worthy aim is to 

 produce a book on common birds at so low a price that it will be within 

 the reach of every child who would know something of the feathered 

 inhabitants of field and grove. He warns us not to expect too much, 

 and when we glance at the price on the cover of his little volume, we 

 readily admit that we have received more than our money's worth. 



He gives pleasingly written biographies of some forty species. His 

 style is attractive and seems well adapted to interest beginners. It is 

 unfortunate, however, that he pays so little attention to the subject of 

 identification, his descriptions being very brief and generally unac- 

 companied by measurements. It is to be hoped that in the second 

 series of these bird studies, which we doubt not will duly appear, 

 scientific names will be properly capitalized. — F. M. C. 



Kirkwood on Maryland Birds.' 2 — Faunal lists are of two kinds : they 

 m ly sum up existing knowledge, however slight, of the life of a region 

 as the basis for future work, or they may present the essentially complete 

 results of long continued, careful observations. The present list belongs 

 to the former class and should be considered as a preliminary report on 

 Maryland birds, or, more strictly, the birds of eastern Maryland, for the 

 author's information is largely drawn from what he terms the 'tide-water' 

 region. 



It is of course highly desirable thai in a list of this kind attention should 

 be drawn to the large number of birds whose presence in the State can 

 scarcely be doubted, but which through insufficient observation have not 

 actually been recorded within the State limits. To prevent their confusion 

 with birds already known from the State, and to properly emphasize the 



1 Some Canadian Birds. A Brief Account of Some of the Common Birds of 

 Eastern Canada. By Montague Chamberlain. First Series. Birds of Field 

 and Grove. Toronto: The Copp, Clark Company, Limited, 1S95, i2mo. pp. 

 x -f- 96, 1 5 cuts. 30 cents. 



2 A List of the Birds of Maryland giving Dates of the Arrival, Departure 

 and Nesting Periods of our Regular Birds; also including Stragglers and such 

 others as no doubt occur but are not recorded. By F. C. Kirkwood. Re- 

 printed from the Transactions of the Maryland Academy of Sciences, pp. 

 241-382. Baltimore, 1895. 



