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older birds. Unfortunately my attention had been drawn elsewhere soon 

 after the marking, otherwise this tragedy might have been prevented. 



But this incident serves to show that some caution will have to be exer- 

 cised in the marking of the young; and, in the writer's opinion, it may be 

 necessary for us to confine our work to the larger and more powerful birds. 



For obvious reasons such birds as the Vireos, and particularly the Orioles 

 and various members of the family Paridae, should be stricken from the 

 list; in fact, any of the birds where a similar mishap is likely to occur. 



A tag might be devised, however, which would remedy all this and 

 allow us to proceed with the original plan, but nothing thus far has pre- 

 sented itself tb my mind. Others perhaps may have met with a similar 

 experience. — Benj. T. Gault, Glen Ellyn, III. 



Two additional Copper-Plates of the Folio Edition of Audubon's 'Birds 

 of America.' — Since the publication of my paper on this subject (Auk, 

 Vol. XXV, p. 401), I have received information of two others which have 

 been preserved. This increases the list already recorded to thirty-nine. 

 The plate (pi. cxii) representing the Downy Woodpecker, is in the pos- 

 session of Miss Grace H. Dodge, New York. Mr. J. H. Sage has recently 

 located the plate (cccxxxviii) of the Bimaculated Duck,^ belonging to 

 Mr. Cephas Brainerd of Haddom, Conn. Mr. Brainerd writes me that it 

 was presented to him by the late William E. Dodge, New York. Calling 

 at Mr. Dodge's office one day, he was shown a number of the plates which 

 Mr. Dodge stated were all that remained of the Audubon 'coppers,' which 

 had been ruined by neglect and exposure. Mr. Brainerd exainined them 

 and was satisfied that some might be put in good order, framed and pre- 

 served. The experiment was successful and this plate, as well as a number 

 of others, were completely restored. — Ruthven Deane, Chicago, III. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Sharpe's Hand-List of Birds. — The recent appearance of Volume V of 

 Dr. Sharpe's 'Hand-List of the Genera and Species of Birds' ^ brings to a 

 close a work which makes every systematic ornithologist a debtor to his 

 great industry and indomitable perseverance. 



' Named in the plate Anas glocitans but in the Orn. Biogr., Anas Breweri. 



2 A Hand-List | of the | Genera and Species of Birds. | [Nomenclator Avium turn 

 Fossilium | tum Viventium.] By | R. Bowdler Sharpe, LL. D., | Assistant Keeper, 

 Department of Zoology, | British Museum. | Volume V. | London: Printed by order 

 of the Trustees. | Sold by | Longmans & Co., 39 Paternoster Row, E. C, | B. Quaritch, 

 11 Grafton Street, New Bond Street, W.; | Dulau & Co., 37 Soho Square, W.; | and 

 at the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, S. W. | 1909. All rights 

 reserved. — 8vo, pp. xx + 694. 



