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treating of the game species, fifty-two in number, and the other the non- 

 game birds, — one hundred and ninety-four. The latter hst contains brief 

 annotations and both vernacular and current technical names are used for all 

 species; the former, prepared originally as an address before the State Fish 

 and Game Protective Association, lacks technical names and is not so uni- 

 form in character, the shore birds being listed without annotations while the 

 gallinaceous species are treated at considerable length. 



The list forms a reliable summary of the wild bird life of West Virginia, 

 but we trust Mr. Brooks will continue his researches and furnish us with a 

 more comprehensive report, giving the distribution of the species in detail 

 and the actual records of the rarer forms, with a discussion of their eco- 

 nomic value. Such a report would be well worthy of publication by the 

 state government and would be a welcome addition to ornithological lit- 

 erature. — W. S. 



Bailey's 'Life Zones and Crop Zones of New Mexico.' » — This 

 report is based upon the field work of the Biological Survey, for a number of 

 years past, conducted mainly by Mr. Bailey himself. The excellent map, 

 which is on a reasonably large scale, presents the life zones of the state in 

 considerable detail while the text discusses the physical characteristics of 

 each and presents Usts, not only of the mammals, breeding birds, reptiles 

 and plants, but of the various varieties of vegetables and fruits which thrive 

 there. There is also a comparison of the several mountain ranges of New 

 Mexico and a bibliography. The report will prove of great value to aU 

 students of geographical distribution, and ornithologists will look forward 

 with much interest to the report on the birds and mammals which, it is 

 announced in the introduction, will be published later. We are pleased to 

 notice in this and other recent publications of the Biological Survey a return 

 to the possessive form in the case of birds named after persons, thus con- 

 forming to the ' A. O. U. Check-List ' as well as to popular usage. — W. S. 



Todd on New Neotropical Birds. ^ — Thirty-three new species and 

 subspecies are briefly described by Mr. Todd in the present paper. Most 

 of these are from the Santa Marta region, Colombia; the provence del 

 Sara, Bolivia; and the Rio Caura, Venezuela, and they give us some idea 

 of the wealth of neotropical material that is being acquired by the Carnegie 

 Museum. Some of these descriptions are, we regret to say, open to the same 

 criticism that has already been made in these pages in other connections, 



' North American Fauna. No. 35. Life Zones and Crop Zones of New Mexico. 

 By Vernon Bailey. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Biological Survey. 

 Henry W. Henshaw, Chief. 8vo. pp. 1-100, 16 half-tone plates, 6 text cuts, 

 and a colored map. Actual date of pubUcation, September 5, 1913. 



2 PreUminary Diagnoses of Apparently New Birds from Tropical America. By 

 W. E. Clyde Todd. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, Vol. XXVI, pp. 169-174, 

 August 8, 1913. 



