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Chapman's ' Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America,' Second 

 Edition.' — It is interesting to note that a second edition of Chapman's 

 'Handbook of the Birds of Eastern North America' was quickly called 

 for, showing not only that a good work is appreciated, but also evincing 

 the strong popular interest in the study of our birds. The second edition 

 is from the same electrotype plates as the first, from which it differs 

 merely in the correction of a few typographical errors and the addition of 

 an appendix of six pages giving a ' field-key ' to about 100 of the more com- 

 mon species, based on their coloration, characteristic habits, notes, and 

 haunts, with a view to their ready identification in the field. — J. A. A. 



Stone on the Name Calliste.- — ^Mr. Stone finds that the generic name 

 Ciilliste Boie, 1826, is preoccupied by Callista Poli, 1791, and that Aglaia 

 Swains., 1827, the next name applied to the birds of this genus, had been 

 previously used for both mollusks and hydrozoans. It appears, therefore 

 that Calospiza G. R. Gray, 1840, is the earliest available name for this 

 group of Tanagers. — F. M. C. 



Publications Received. — Baker, Frank Collins. A Naturalist in Mexico, 

 being a visit to Cuba, Northern Yucatan, and Mexico. i2mo. pp. 145, 41 

 full-page plls. and cuts in text. Chicago : David Oliphant, 1895. 



Barrows, Walter B. and E. A. Schwarz. The Common Crow of the 

 United States. (Bull. No. 6, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Svo. pp. 96, 

 189.';.) 



Beal, F. E. L. Preliminary Report on the Food of Woodpeckers. 

 (Bull. No. 7, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1895, pp. 1-33, i pi. 3 figs.) 



Bendire, Charles. The Cowbirds. (Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1S93, pp. 

 587-624, pll. iii.) 



Biittikofer, J. (i) Einige Bemerkungen iiber Neu Angekommene Para- 

 diesvogel. (Notes from Leyden Museum, No. 8, Vol. XVII, pp. 36-40, 

 May, 1895.) (2) A Revision of the Genus Turdinus and Genera allied 

 to it, with an Enumeration of the Specimens contained in the Levden 

 Museum. {Ibid., No. 14, pp. 65-106, June, 1895.) 



Chapman, Frank M. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America, 

 etc. Second Edition. New York : D. Appleton & Co. i2mo. pp. xiv-f- 

 427, pll. XX, 115 figs, in text. Library ed., $3.00; pocket ed., $3.50. 



Dwight, Jonathan, Jr. The Ipswich Sparrow and its Summer Home. 

 (Memoirs Nutt. Orn. Club, II. 4to. pp. 56. i col. pi. Cambridge, 1S95.) 



' For a review of the work and a full transcript of the title see antea, 

 pp. 282-284. 



- The Priority of the names Calliste, Aglaia, and Calospiza and their use in 

 Ornithology. By Witmer Stone. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1S95, PP- -5i» 

 252. 



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