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out that our other North American species, ^^-^f^^^^'^iy ''-"^^ZlToi 

 Cliff Swallows, should not also undergo a general moult about the end of 



The principal literature of the family of Swallows is passed in review 

 (pp. xxi-lxvii), the early French and English authors justly commg m 

 fir detailed notice; hence it seems all the more incongruous to find no 

 notice of Linnaeus earlier than 1766 (12th ed. Syst. Nat.) • 



The plates, drawn by Mr. Wyatt and printed by Mmturn Brothers, a e 

 M-elldone. The text is very full and satisfactory, the biographies and 

 he geographic distribution of the species, when known, bexng treated a 

 length, a special and unusual feature being the numerous colored maps 

 how-i^g the ranges of the species. The North American spec.es owmg 

 perhaps to the fact that their habits and distribution are as a -^^ bette^. 

 known than those of most other species are treated '-^^ -usu 1 engU. 

 II na-es being devoted to the Rough-winged Swallow, 20 to the Sand 

 MarU: 22 to the White-bellied Swallow, and 24 each to the Clitf Swallow 

 and the Barn Swallow. Great pains has been taken to -vo^k out the dis- 

 tHbution of some of the species, as for example the White-bellied SwaUo.^ 

 the colored map (PL 3.0 showing, as nearly as could be ascertained, both 

 its breeding and migratory ranges. , 1^ . 1 o,-. Hp willin<r 



In recrard to points of nomenclature we should not always be ^^IllIn 

 to subscribe to 'the practice here followed, as where ^J^^^^^f^^l 

 (Linn., 1766) is preferred to 'P. subis (Linn., 175S), and wheie Pet.o 

 'i:eU^n LLJi Scl. (:858) is adopted in preference to P. -J-^^ ', 

 (Swain., 1827), because the latter does not chance to be ' appi opiiate- 

 But where there is so much that is worthy of commendation, it becomes 

 ungracious to criticise what is not wholly to our taste— J- A. A. 



Ornithology in the Standard Dictionary.' -The specialist determines 

 the advance made in a knowledge of his chosen subject ^J ^"^-^-'"^ ^^^ 

 literature relating to it, but to learn what part^^^t^^lu^l-sj^ 



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