Vol^XXVIIJ 2ggcg^; Literature. 107 



The reports of the State Audubon Societies, given in alphabetic sequence, 

 occupy some twenty pages, and show the progress or otherwise of bird 

 |)rotection by States througliout the country. 



This Report of the National Association, like those of former years, is 

 a record of strenuous effort, directed as heretofore by a resourceful, zealous, 

 and alert president, strongly supported by unselfish individual endeavor 

 on the part of thousands of members widely scattered throughout the 

 countiy and ardently cooperating for a common purpose. It is also a 

 report of encouraging progress, and of hopeful outlook. — - J. A. A. 



Macoun's 'Catalogue of Canadian Birds.' ' — The first edition of this 

 work appeared in three parts — Part I in 1900, Part II in 1903, and Part III 

 in 1904. This new edition has been in part rewritten and brought down to 

 date through the addition of much new matter, based largely on the recent 

 field work of the Survey. The character and scope of the work was very 

 fully described in this journal, in notices of the several parts of the first 

 edition as they appeared,^ which apply equally well to the present edition. 

 A few words from the preface (signed by the senior author of this edition 

 and author of the first edition) , may be quoted in explanation of what has 

 been attempted: " In compiling this catalogue the authors have endeavored 

 to bring together facts on the range and nesting habits of all birds known 

 to reside in, migrate to or visit, the northern part of the continent. In 

 addition to the Dominion of Canada they have therefore included New- 

 foundland, Greenland and Alaska. The nomenclature and the numbers 

 given in the latest edition and supplements of the Check-list published by 

 the American Ornithologist's Union have been made the basis of arrange- 

 ment of the catalogue. The order followed in the notes on each bird is, 

 as a general rule from east to west. Greenland is generally cited first and 

 British Columbia and Alaska last. . . . Until the publication of the first 

 edition of this Catalogue, no attempt had been made to produce a work 

 dealing with the ornithology of the region embraced in the Dominion of 

 Canada since the publication of the Fauna Boreali Americana by Swainson 

 and Richardson, in 1831." "Two hundred and sixty-seven species" were 

 given in this work. It would be of interest to know how this number com- 

 pares with the number contained in the present 'Catalogue,' and whether 

 any are included in the second edition that were not contained in the first; 

 but we find on information on these points, the numeration being that of 

 the A. O. U. Check-List is non-consecutive, and we are unable to find any 

 statement of the matter, and have not at this writing time to count them.^ 



1 Canada ] Department of Mines | Geological Survey Branch | Hon. W. Temple- 

 man, Minister; A. P. Low, Deputy Minister; R. W. Broclc, Director. | — \ Catalogue 

 I of I Canadian Birds | By | John Macoun, | Naturalist to the Geological Survey, 

 Canada. | and | James M. Macoun ] Assistant Naturalist to the Geological Survey, 

 Canada. | [Coat of Arms] | Ottawa: ] Government Printing Bureau | 1909 | [No. 973.] — 

 8vo, pp. i-viii + 1-761 + i-xviii. 



2C/. Auk, Vol. XVII, Oct., 1900, pp.'394, 395; Vol. XX, Oct., 1903, p. 441; Vol. 

 XXII, Jan., 1905, pp. 99, 100. 



3 On the utiUty of numbering Hsts, see antea, p. 96, footnote. 



