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MDCCCXXXII)." Both these statements doubtless refer to the reprint 

 with this same title page. A glance at the Edinburgh edition, volume I, 

 will show that it differs widely from the others typographically, particu- 

 larly noticeable on the title page, introduction and index. 



The Boston edition of Volume II seems to have been more generally 

 overlooked. However, Coues mentions it after quoting the Edinburgh 

 Volume II and says, "Other copies said to also bear the imprint ' Boston, 

 Hilliard, Gray and Company, MDCCCXXXV." This issue is a reprint 

 typographically distinct from the Edinburgh Volume II, "Entered ac- 

 cording to the Act of Congress in the year 1835 by Victor Gifford Audubon 

 and John Woodhouse Audubon in the Clerk's office of the District Court 

 of the District of Massachusetts." It is dated on the title page: Boston) 

 Hilliard, Gray and Company | MDCCCXXXV. The few portions of the 

 text which I have examined are identical with the original. 



Perhaps more interesting are the various plates of the Elephant Folio 

 which Mr. Stone has reviewed at length. I have seen from time to time 

 several of these plates, evidently from the original coppers, not numbered 

 and bearing no engraver's signature but in the lower left-hand corner the 

 words, "Drawn from Nature and Coloured by J. J. Audubon F. R. S., F. 

 L. S." The plates lettered in this manner which I have personally ex- 

 amined are those of Least Stormy Petrel, California Partridge, Canvas- 

 back Duck, and the one figuring Lazuli Finch, Clay Colored Finch and 

 Oregon Snow Finch. These plates are very finely colored and several 

 persons with whom I have talked that have seen them or similar ones 

 share with me the belief that they were probably used for exhibition pur- 

 poses — F. B. McKechnie, Ponkapog, Mass. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Chapman's 'The Warblers of North America.' 1 — The North American 

 'Wood Warblers,' or family Mniotiltida?, are here treated monographically 

 from the standpoint of their life-histories, and an attempt is made to set 

 forth our present knowledge of the habits, migrations, breeding and 

 winter ranges of each species and subspecies of this most interesting and 

 attractive family of birds. Each species is illustrated in color from 

 drawings by two of our most skillful bird artists, Fuertes and Horsfall, 



i The Warblers | of | North America |By | Frank M. Chapman | with the Coopera- 

 tion of other Ornithologists | With twenty-four, full-page colored plates, illustrating | 

 every species, from drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes | and Bruce Horsfall, and 

 half-tones | of nests and eggs [ [Monogram] New York | D. Appleton & Company | 

 1907— 8vo, pp. i-viii, 1-306, 24 col. pll., 12 half-tone pll. March, 1907. $3.00. 



