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Anderson's Birds of Winnebago and Hancock Counties, Iowa.' — This 

 is a carefull}- annotated list of 21S species, based on six years' obser- 

 vations by the author, mainly in the immediate vicinity of Forrest City, 

 Iowa, about seventeen miles south of the Minnesota boundary, and on 

 the meridian of Des IVCoines. Two pages of introduction describe tlie 

 topography of the i-egion. The author states that " no species is enumer- 

 ated of which the identification is doubtful," most of the species having 

 been personally observed or collected by him. Credit is given to other 

 observers for notes on several species which have escaped his notice. 

 In a list so generally free from typographical errors, it seems strange to 

 see Defidroica spelled Dentroica in each of the nine cases when it is 

 used. — J. A. A. 



Ricker's Notes on the Birds of Hull, Mass.- — The raison d'etre of this 

 annotated list of some 76 species is not very evident, based, as it admit- 

 tedly is, on rather limited observations. Hull is of course a very 

 restricted locality, and not especially favorable for birds, which may to 

 some extent account for the verj' small number of species here recorded. 

 The list contains nothing noteworthy on account of rarity or otherwise, 

 while many of the species are not very positively identified. — J. A. A. 



Howe's Birds of Brookline, Mass.'' — One hundred and thirty-six spe- 

 cies have been noted during the last six years within the town limits of 

 Bi-ookline, Mass. The list is briefly annotated, from the notes of Mr. 

 Howe and five other well known observers. The haunts of a number of 

 species have been recently destroyed, and the birds forced to seek other 

 resorts; yet 72 species are recorded as regularly breeding within the town 

 limits, and 47 occur as regular migrants. — J. A. A. 



Tegetmeier's 'Pheasants.'" — This authoritative manual, now in its 

 third edition, has long been recognized as a standard work on the hatch- 



' An Annotated List of the | Birds | of | Winnebago and Hancock Counties, 

 Iowa. I — Being a List of Birds Observed in the Counties of | Winnebago and 

 Hancock, State of Iowa, with Brief | Notes on the Same. | — | Forest City, 

 Iowa. I Printed by the Author. | 1897. — i6mo, title page, pp. i, ii, 1-19. 



^ Notes on the | Birds of Hull | Massachusetts, | by Everett W. Ricker. | 

 Illustrated, j Newtonville. | C. J. Maynard. | 1896. — i6mo, pp. 36, with 3 

 col. pU., and several figs, in text, some colored. 



^ Birds of Brookline, Mass. A list prepared by Reginald Heber Howe, Jr. 

 Fol., pp. 2, Jan., 1897. 



* Pheasants | their | Natural History and Practical Management. ( By | 

 W. B. Tegetmeier | (Member of the British Ornithologists' Union), ( Author 

 of " The Natural History of the Cranes," "Table and | Market Poultry," Etc., 

 Etc. I [Design.] Third Edition, Enlarged. | Illustrated from Life by Messrs. 

 J. G. Millais, T. W. Wood, | P. Smit, and F. W. Frohawk, Etc. | London : | 

 Horace Cox, | "The Field" Office, Bream's Buildings, E. C. j — | 1897. | 

 (All rights reserved.) — 8vo, pp. xii, 237, pll. 16. 



