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merely the common and technical names of the birds, but it is followed 

 by "a succinct account of some of the most interesting birds of the 

 Ignited States, for which," says Mr. Ord, "we are chiefly indebted to Mr. 

 Wilson's Work." This occupies pp. 320-357. Two of the new species 

 (^Sterna Philadelphia and Lariis delavjarensis) are described in footnotes 

 to the list ; for descriptions of the others the reader is given a footnote 

 reference to the " History of Lewis and Clark's Expedition." 



Mr. Rhoads's annotations to the bird part of Ord's work occupy pp. 31- 

 51 of his Appendix, and consist mainly of a statement of the equivalent 

 current name of Ord's species, so far as they are certainly identifiable, 

 with appropriate explanatory comment, particularly in the case of the 

 North Ainerican species. 



It is a great satisfaction to have a faithful transcript of this rare work 

 placed within reach, although the interest that has centered about it is 

 far greater than its importance, so far as its bird matter is concerned, 

 would really warrant. It is somewhat different with the mammals, in 

 which the chief importance of Ord's work, from a nomenclatural point of 

 view, consists. 



While we are very grateful to Mr. Rhoads for his reprint of Ord's 

 'Zoology,' we can hardly speak of the execution of his task as wholly 

 above criticism. The ideal method of reproduction would have been of 

 course by photography, so often resorted to in these davs for the repro- 

 duction of letter-press. We trust that Mr. Rhoads has exercised the care 

 in proof-reading the importance of the case required, but his own con- 

 siderable array of typographical errors in the reprint, as well as in his 

 own part of the work (see Errata, p. 51 of App.), leads us the more to 

 regret that the text of Ord's work could not have been reproduced in 

 facsimile; and especially when we note the large number of still uncor- 

 rected typographical errors (to say nothing of the idiosyncracies of 

 punctuation) in his own text. In all probability, however, the errors, if 

 any, in the reprint are not of material importance. — J. A. A. 



Reichenow's Birds of German East Africa.' — This work forms part 

 two of Volume III of the great work now publishing in seven volumes 

 entitled ' Deutsch-Ost-afrikas,' being the bird part of the volume 

 devoted to the vertebrates of East Africa. It is in the form of a hand- 

 book or manual, ti-eating of 728 species, giving a brief diagnosis of each, 

 with generally a short account of their habits and distribution. Analyti- 



' Die Vogel Deutsch-Ost-afrikas. | — ( Von | Dr. Ant. Reichenovv. | . . . . 

 [ = 4 lines, titles, etc.] | — | Mit iiber 100 in den Text gedruckten, schwarzen 

 und farbigen Abbildungen | nach der Natur gezeichnet von | Anna Held. | — 

 I 1894. I Geographische Verlangshandlungung Dietrich Reimer, Berlin. | 

 (Hoefer & Vohsen.) Roy. 8vo., pp. -50 + 3 11., 108 illust. in text, part 

 colored. 



