>892.] Recent Literature. I ^ I 



side are very much reduced in size, and seem to l)e arranged in a 

 single row." 



"Type, No. 119,654, i^ , ad., U. S. National Museum (Department of 

 Agriculture collection). From Ketcluim, Idaho, September 22, 1890. 

 Collected by C Hart Merriam and Vernon Bailey." (N. Am. Fauna, 

 No. 5, Aug., 1891, p. 96). 



The type specimen still remains unique. The accompanying 

 colored plate is the work of Mr. John L. Ridgway. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Packard's 'The Labrador Coast.'* — The first twenty pages are devoted 

 to a sketch of the physical geography of Labrador, followed by about 

 forty pages of iiistorical matter, devoted largely to a discussion of the 

 early discovery of the country by the Norsemen. Chapter V, 'One of 

 Fifty Days in Southern Labrador,' gives a general view of the country as 

 seen from the standpoint of the naturalist. The next hundred pages are 

 somewhat in the nature of an itinerary of two summer cruises along the 

 coast, with descriptions of the scenery, and notes on the geology, and the 

 various forms of animal and vegetable life met with. Then follow chap- 

 ters on recent explorations, on the civil history of Labrador and its fish- 

 eries, and on the Labrador Eskimo. The four concluding chapters are 

 devoted respectively to a systematic account of the zoology and botany of 

 the Labrador Coast, and an extended bibliography of works and papers 

 relating to Labrador (pp. 475-501). The list of plants is by Prof. John 

 Macoun, Naturalist of the Department of the Interior, Canada. The list 

 of birds is by Mr. Lucien M. Turner, reprinted from the Proceedings of 

 the U. S. Natioual Museum (1885, pp. 233-254), "revised and brought 

 down to 1891, by J. A. Allen." 



The work is, in the main, a collection of previously published papers 

 and memoirs, here brought together and revised, forming a valuable 

 manual oC our present knowledge of the Labrador coast. The narrative 

 portions are entertainingly written, and contain passing references to the 

 various species of birds met with. — J. A. A. 



*The Labrador Coast. | A | Journal of two Summer Cruises j to that Region. | With 

 Notes on its Early Discovery, on the Eskimo, | on its Physical Geography, Geology | 

 and Natural History, | By | Alpheus Spring Packard, M. D., Ph. D., | .... [etc.= 



2 lines of titles]. | | With Maps and Illustrations. | | New York: N. D. C. 



Hodges, Publisher, | 47 Lafayette Place. | London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner &- 

 Co. I 1891.— 8vo, pp. 7 + 513. 



