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III. Common Summer Residents. IV. Summer Residents which are 

 rare or local (many are common as transients). V. Winter Visitants of 

 regular occurrence. \\. Winter Visitants of irregular occurrence or 

 rare. VII. Species which occur occasionally in winter, but are mainly- 

 transients. VIII. Common Transients. IX. Rare or irregular Transients. 

 X. Rare Stragglers. 



Part II, an 'Annotated List of the Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania and 

 New Jersey,' occupies pp. 35-152 and includes 352 species, or, subtracting 

 3 species' now extinct in the i-egion under consideration and 3 hybrids,' 

 we have a total of 346 species known from the district. To this may be 

 added Anascrecca, recorded by Dr. C C. Abbott (Geology of New Jersey), 

 which, it is true, may have been omitted intentionall\', though other 

 records from the same doubtful source are given a place. 



The annotations under each species consist of a brief and somewhat 

 too general statement of its ' Breeding Range ' and ' Winter Distribution,' 

 given in separate paragraphs — an admirable plan — -and remarks on the 

 bird's manner of occurrence, which show that Mr. Stone has his subject 

 well in hand and knows what to say and what to leave unsaid. 



The total of 346 species tells us that few additional birds are to be 

 expected from this district and the most promising fields for future 

 workers lie in more clearly determining the faunal affinities of the moun- 

 tainous parts of Eastern Pennsylvania, and especially the standing of the 

 sea-birds of the Jersey coast, about which comparatively little is known. 

 Records of Procellaria felagica and Phalacrocorax carbo require con- 

 firmation, and it is probable additional observation will show that some 

 birds, e. g., Micropalama ki?nantofus and Ereunetes occidetitalis. are not 

 so rare as Mr. Stone believes. 



The bibliography, which concludes this excellent list, is proof that Mr. 

 Stone is thoroughly familiar with the literature relating to the birds of 

 Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Indeed, few records of importance seem 

 to have escaped him. He does not, however, mention Mr. Lawrence's 

 record of the European Woodcock from Shrewsbury, N. J. (Catalogue of 

 Birds, 1866, p. 279) ; and in Mr. Thurber's ' List of Birds of Morris County, 

 New Jersey ' (True Democratic Banner, 1S87) he will find additional 

 records of such rare birds as Elanoidcs forjicatus, Accipiter airicapillus, 

 Scotiaptex cinerea, Ampelis gamiliis. etc., and other notes of interest. 



The work is well and tastefully printed, typographical errors are rare, 

 and we congratulate Mr. Stone and his associates on having performed 

 their task in a manner which demands the highest commendation. — 

 F. M. C. 



' Camptolaimus labradorius, Tyvipanuchns cupido, and Coiiurtts caroliiiensis. 



^ Colaptes auratus -f- C. cafer, Hehniuthophila leiicobronchialis, and //. 

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