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new sub-species, under the name Felis concolor floridana. About 

 twenty-five pages are devoted to an account of the Seminole Indians, 

 and about one hundred pages to hunting and fishing in Florida. Vari- 

 ous hunting and fishing trips are described, with numerous appropriate 

 illustrations. This portion of the book has an important bearing on 

 many points in natural history, and will doubtless be of special inter- 

 est to the hunter and tourist. The work is beautifully printed and is 

 altogether an elegant sample of book-making. — J. A. A. 



Howe's Every Bird." — This is another attempt to render the identifi- 

 cation of bird easy, whether the birds be in the bush or in the hand. The 

 scope of the volume is limited to "one hundred and seventy-three species 

 of birds most often met with in New England, and the Appendix contains 

 nearly all other birds known to occur within these states." The text is 

 reduced to a minimum, the author depending largely on the outline draw- 

 ings of head and foot as an aid to the student. A line or two is given to 

 dates of arrival, distribution (in New England), haunts, and song under 

 each species. About a page of space is allotted to each species, including 

 the cuts. They are divided according to their haunts into ' Woodland 

 Birds,' ' Marsh and Swamp Birds,' 'Beach Birds,' ' Ocean Birds,' etc. The 

 book, however, lacks both a table of contents and an index. — J. A. A. 



Artistic and Scientific Taxidermy.- — Any work which will aid in more 

 clearly defining the difference between the art of taxidermy and the trade 

 of taxidermy is to be welcomed. Of manuals containing elementarv 

 instructions in ' stuffing' we have had enough. The case of effigies over 

 the drawing-room mantel may serve a decorative purpose, but its maker is 

 no more worthy the name of taxidermist than the caster of plaster images 

 is deserving of the title of sculptor. 



'"Every Bird" | A Guide to the Identification of | the Birds of Woodland, 



| Beach and Ocean. | With | one hundred and twenty-four line illustrations | 



by the author | Reginald Heber Howe, Jr. | [Associate] Member of the 



American Ornithologists' Union, Member of the Nuttall | Ornithological Club. 



| Boston: | Bradlee Whidden, | 1S96. Sm. Svo, | pp. viii, 192. Price, $1.00. 



2 Artistic and Scientific | Taxidermy and Modelling | A Manual of Instruc- 

 tion in the Methods of Pre- | serving and Reproducing the Correct | Form of 

 all Natural Objects | Including a Chapter on | The Modelling of | Foliage | 

 By I Montagu Browne, F. G. S., F. Z. S., etc. | Curator of the Leicester Cor- 

 poration Museum and Art Gallery ; | Author of ' Practical Taxidermy,' The 

 Vertebrate Animals of Leicestershire | and Rutland, etc. | With 22 Full-page 

 Illustrations and 11 Illustrations in Text | London | Adam and Charles Black 

 1896. [New York, Macmillan & Co., $6.50] Svo. pp. viii -(-463. 



