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Dionne's Birds of the Province of Quebec. 1 — In 1883, Professor Dionne 

 published in French a volume on the Birds of Canada, having, however, 

 special reference to those of the Province of Quebec. It was, and remained 

 till now, the only systematic work in French treating of the birds of this 

 region. As it has long been out of print, the author has wisely decided 

 to bring out a new work restricted to the birds of this Province, in the form 

 of a popular handbook, with a view to promoting a better general knowledge 

 of the birds of this ornithologically neglected Province. As the author 

 says, little has as yet been done towards making known the local distri- 

 bution of the birds of this Province, which remains still to a large extent 

 an unexplored field. 



Following an introduction of ten pages, the species are taken up in 

 systematic sequence, following the order and the nomenclature of the 

 A. O. U. Check-List, even to the revisions of its latest supplements. Diag- 

 noses are given of the genera and the higher groups, with keys to the latter 

 and descriptions of the external characters of the species and subspecies, 

 followed by biographies, sometimes extending to several pages. The 

 plates furnish half-tone figures of about fifty species (mostly from well- 

 known sources) and there are a number of text cuts. All in all, the ' Birds 

 of the Province of Quebec' is well adapted to meet £he great need for a 

 popular handbook, in the French language, of the birds of eastern Canada. 

 — J. A. A. 



Clark's Birds of Amherst, Massachusetts. 2 — The first edition of this 

 little work was published in 1887, and was reviewed in this journal, Volume 

 V, 1888, pp. 105, 106. The number of species then recorded was 179, to 

 which 7 are now added, making 186. The first edition having been long 

 out of print, the present one has been prepared to meet the continued 

 demand for copies. It differs from the former edition in having the species 

 follow each other in a single series, instead of being arranged in three series, 

 in accordance with whether they are of regular, irregular, or of extremely 

 rare occurrence. The 'artificial key' has been rearranged, and a 'field 

 key' added; as already noted seven species are added, and some additions 

 are made to the field notes relating to other species, particularly with 



1 Les | Oiseaux | de la | Province de Quebec | par | C.-E. Dionne | Maitre-es Arts, 

 Conservateur du Mus6e Zoologique de l'Universite - Laval, | Membre associe de 

 1' "American Ornithologists Union," de la "National | Geographic Society" Wash- 

 ington, etc. Auteur de "Les Oiseaux | du Canada," du "Catalogue (annotfi) des 

 Oiseaux de la | Province de Quebec," de "Les Mammiferes | de la Province de 

 Quebec" [Vignette] Quebec | Dessault & Proulx | 1896 — 8vo, pp. i-viii, 1-415, 8 

 half-tone plates, and 21 text cuts. 



2 Second Edition: Revised and Rewritten. | — | The | Birds of Amherst | and 

 Vicinity, | including nearly the whole of Hampshire County | Massachusetts. | — | 

 Hubert Lyman Clark. | With an Introduction by | Professor Charles H. Fernald, 

 Ph. D. ] — | Amherst: Massachusetts: | Press of Carpenter & Morehouse. | 1906.— 

 8vo, pp. 96 + 411. not paged. 



