I02 Recent Literature. Ljan. 



All were well pleased with the progress made and the work done by the 

 Club in the past year and look forward to even better success in the future, 

 — Leon J. Cole, Secretary. 



Errata. — As I was not able to read the proof of my article on the ' Birds 

 of the Coal Regions of Pennsylvania' (Auk, Oct., 1S96), on account of 

 absence from the city, two errors have unfortunately occurred. Tardus 

 fuscescens, not Turdus aonalaschkce pallasi, was noted by me at Pottsville 

 and Rock Glen. 



I noted Cowbirds at Pottsville on July 14, not July 11. — R. T. Young, 

 Pkiladelpkia, Pa. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Sharpe's Catalogue of the Limicolae.' — As Dr. Sharpe says, the collec- 

 tion of Limicolae in the British Museum "is truly a wonderful one. Of 

 the 255 species recoi-ded, the British Museum contains 250, and the types 

 are 68 in number." "The specimens arranged and catalogued in it are 

 13,440, exclusive of many hundreds of duplicates." It is hence easily 

 seen that the labor of preparing the present volume was very great, with, 

 however, commensurate facilities for arriving at satisfactory results. 



The Limicolie are divided into the following six families, — CEdicnem- 

 idae, with 4 genera and 11 species; Cursoriidas, with 8 genera and 37 

 species; Parridce, with 7 genera and 11 species; Charadriidse, with 76 

 genera (44 of them monotypic) and 192 species ; Chionidse, with 2 

 genera and 3 species; and Thinocorythid?e, with 2 genera and 5 species. 

 The family Charadriidse includes 10 subfamilies, most of which have been 

 often if not generally accorded the rank of families; as, for example, 

 Arenariinae, Hsmatopodinte, Charadriinie, Himantopodinie, Scolopacinre, 

 Phalaropodinie, etc. ; while the genus ^^/^r/z^, sometimes recognized as 

 a family, is not only reduced to generic rank, but is placed between 

 Ochthodromus and Charadriu.t. While Sharpe thus degrades the rank of 

 many groups usually recognized as families, he goes to the opposite ex- 



' Catalogue | of the | Limicolas | in the | Collection | of the | British Mu- 

 seum. I By I R. Bowdler Sharpe. | London : | Printed by order of the Trustees. 

 I Sold by 1 Longmans & Co., 39 Paternoster Row ; | B. Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly ; 

 Dulau & Co., 37 Soho Square W. ; | Kegan Paul & Co., Paternoster House, 

 Charing Cross Road; and at the | British Museum (Natural History), Crom- 

 well Road, S. W. I 1896. — 8vo, pp. xii +794, pi. vii. = Catalogue of the Birds 

 in the British Museum, Vol. XXIV. 



