Recently published Ornithological Works. 261 



Canada, and provides annotated lists of the mammals, birds, 

 and hatrachians. No new species of birds were discovered. 



61. Reichenow's Report on the Progress of Ornithology. 

 [Bericht iiber die Leistungen in dev Naturgescliiclite der Vogel wahrend 



des Jahres 1894. Von Ant. Reichenow. Arch. f. Nat. 61 te Jahrg. 

 2 tc Band, "Berlin, 1895 " (published Dec. 1902).] 



We do not doubt the excellence of Dr. Reichenow's report 

 on the progress of the Science of Ornithology for the year 

 1894, nor the care with which it has been prepared. But 

 we must say that its value is rendered almost nugatory by 

 its being withheld from publication till December 1902. 

 Events move fast now-a-days, even in ornithology, and. a 

 report on what has occurred in 1894, published eight years 

 afterwards, is almost useless. We have been informed, 

 however, that the fault of this long delay lies with the pub- 

 lishers and not with the author, consequently we have only 

 to offer our sympathies to Dr. Reichenow on the bad treat- 

 ment that his good work has met with. 



62. Ridgway on the Birds of North and Middle America. 



(The Birds of North and Middle America. By Robert Ridgway. 

 Part II. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 50, pt. 2 (1902).] 



We have already noticed the first volume of this important 

 work (see 'Ibis/ 1902, p. 515), and are glad to find the 

 second volume succeeding it so rapidly. While the first 

 was entirely occupied by Mr. Ridgway 's account of the 

 numerous Fringillidse of North and Middle America, four 

 families of nine-primaried Oscines are treated in the present 

 instalment, namely, Tanagridse, Icteridse, Ccerebidse, and 

 Mniotiltidse. These families are entirely restricted to the 

 Neogean Ornis, having no single representative in the 

 Old World. We wrote somewhat freely of Mr. Ridgway's 

 novel style of treatment of his subject in our former notice, 

 and will not repeat our remarks, except to say that in the 

 present volume also subspecies are excessively numerous, 

 and are placed, apparently, on the same level as species. 

 Of Tanagridse 112 species and subspecies are recognised as 



