248 Recent Literature. \_h'^x\ 



Cory's List of the Birds of Eastern North America.' — This "list 

 inckides all birds which are known to occur in North America east of the 

 ninetieth meridian." It is very slightly annotated with reference " to 

 species which occur in New England, Illinois, and Florida. Taking these 

 States to form the points of an iinaginary triangle, a somewhat crude idea 

 of the range of species which occur within this area may be obtained," 

 etc. The annotations generally consist of the use of the abbrevia- 

 tions "N. E.", " Fla.", and "111.", one or all, as the case may require 

 except in the case of species of casual or accidental occurrence, when 

 the nature of their presence is indicated. The 'List ' includes 570 species 

 and subspecies, the nomenclature and arrangement being that of the 

 A. O. U. Check-List ; the species are numbered consecutively, the equiva- 

 lent numbers of the A. O. U. Check-List being added in parenthesis. Of 

 the 570 species listed, 104, or about 18 per cent, are of casual or accidental 

 occurrence. Among the Water Birds (Grebes to Grouse), the casuals are 

 largely (more than one half) stragglers from the Old World ; the rest are 

 about equally from the West and from the West Indies and other parts 

 of the tropics. It may be noted that No. 431, Junco kyemalis oregonus, 

 is doubtless the same as No. ^t^i, Junco h. shufeldti {■=■ connectens). — 

 J. A. A. 



Schalow's the Published Writings of Anton Reichenow.^ — This is a 

 convenient list of the published writings of this eminent ornithologist, 

 arranged chronologically, and numbering 28S titles. The list of titles is 

 followed by a list of the new generic names, proposed by Dr. Reichenow, 

 which number 38, of which 15 are proposed to replace earlier ' barbarous' 

 or improperly constructed names. Then follows a list of the species 

 described as new, numbering 342, and finally a list of the species named 

 in honor of Dr. Reichenow, 17 in number. Dr. Reichenow's papers relate 

 mainly to African bii-ds, but include many of a more general character, 

 and several special works of much importance. — J. A. A. 



Publications Received. — Anderson, Rudoph M. Annotated List of 

 Birds of Winnebago and Hancock Counties, Iowa. i6mo, pp. 19. Forrest 

 City, la., 1S97. 



Bates, Frank A. The Game Birds of North America. i6mo, pp. 118. 

 Boston, 1896. 



Barrett-Hamilton, G. E. II. The Great Auk {Alca hnfennis) as an Irish 

 Bird. (Irish Nat., May, 1S96, pp. 121, 122.) 



Butler, A. W. Indiana : A Century of Changes in the Aspects of 

 Nature. (Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci., V, pp. 31-42.) 



' A I List of the Birds | of | Eastern North America | By Charles B. Cory | 

 For sale by | Bradley Whidden | 18 Arch St., Boston | Boston | 1896— Svo, 

 pp. 42. 



-Anton Reichenow. Ein Verzeichniss seiner bisherigen Arbeiten. 18C9- 

 1896. Svo, pp. 29. Dec. 1896. 



