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activity in the field. If thev can continue to accumulate chxta at the • 

 present rate, we may soon hope to know more of the birds of the Province 

 than of almost any other part of Canada. 



The only serious fault to be found is with the arrangement of the 

 matter, which seems to have been printed in the order in which the 

 observations happened to be reported at the successive meetings. There 

 is a vast mass of valuable material, but much of it is, for tins reason, 

 almost inaccessible. This difficulty might have been to a great extent 

 remedied by a good index, which is sadly lacking.— C F. B. 



Publications Received. -Allen, J. A. On a collection of Birds from 

 Chapada, Matto Grosso, Brazil, made by Mr. H. H. Smith. Part II. 

 Tyrannidse. (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, IV, pp. 33*-35°0 



Buttikofer, J. (1) A Review of the genus Rhipidura. with an enu- 

 meration of the specimens in the Leyden Museum. (Notes from the Ley- 

 den Mus., XV, pp. 65-98.) (2) Europaische Zugvogel als Gaste m 

 Liberia. (Hauptberichte des II-ten Internat. orn. Congress zu Buda- 

 pest.) 



Chapman, Frank M. Notes on Birds and Mammals observed near 

 Trinidad, Cuba, with Remarks on the origin of West Indian Bird-Life. 

 (Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., IV, pp. 279,330.) 



Cory, Charles B. Catalogue of West Indian Birds. Containing a list 

 of all species known to occur in the Bahama Islands, the Greater Antilles, 

 the Caymans, and the Lesser Antilles, excepting the Islands of Tobago 

 and Trinidad. 4to, Boston, 1892. 



Dixon, Charles. The Migration of Birds, an Attempt to reduce Avian 

 Season-Flight to Law. 8vo. London, 1892. 



Hartert, Ernst. (1) On the Birds of East Prussia. (Ibis, 1892, pp. 504- 

 522.) (2) On a little-known Species of Lark, of the Genus Otocorys. 

 (Ibis, 1892, pp. 522, 523, pi. xiii.) _ 



Leverkiihn, Paul. (1) Bericht iiber eine Reise nach Ungarn im Fruh- 

 iahre 1S91. (Hauptberichte des II-ten intern, orn Congress zu Budapest.) 

 "(2) Zur neuen ornithologischen Nomenclatur. (Die Schwalbe, XV, 

 No. 7.) (3) Ornithologisches v aus Schiltberger's Reise. (Ibid., Nos. 

 13 and 20.) (4) Ueber eine interessante Schwarzspecht-Hohle. (Orn. 

 Monatssch rift des Dents. Ver. zum Schutze der Vogelwelt, XVI, No. 9.) 

 (O Litterarisches iiber das Steppenhuhn, nebst Original-Mittheilun- 

 gen iiber die i88Ser Invasion. (Ibid., No. 2.) (6) Ueber eine abnorm. 

 gefarbte Ente. (Zeitschr. f. Orn. u. prakt. Geflugelzucht, XVI, p. 102. 

 ' Lockwood, Samuel. Why the Mockingbirds left New Jersey -a Geo- 

 logical Reason. (Am. Nat., Aug. 1892.) 



Shufeldt, R. W. Ridgway on the Anatomy of Hummingbirds and 

 Swifts. (Am. Nat., Oct. 1892.) 



Stejneger, Leonhard. Two Additions to the Japanese Avifauna, in- 

 cluding descriptions of a New Species. (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XV, pp. 



371-373.) 

 Actes de la Soctetd scientifique du Chili, II, 1892, Iere et Ilieme Livraison. 



