2 20 Recetit Literatn7-e. (April 



there defects evidently due to liaste or lack of cai-e, as explained by the 

 author in a note at the end of the volume. Much of the success attained 

 is of course due to the excellent quality of the specimens as regards 

 n)ouiiling. etc. — J. A. A. 



A Forgotten Volume. — In looking ihrougii stores in New York where 

 old books are sold, I lately came across a titne-stained copy of the first 

 volume of Audubon's 'Ornithological Biography" bearing on its title- 

 page the following imprint: — Phihulelphla : | Judah Dobson, Agent, 

 loS Chestnut Street; | and | H. II. Porter, Literary Rooms, 121 Chestnut 

 \^ Street. | MDCCCXXXII. A casual glance was sufiicient to disclose that 



Cl it was not the Edinburgh edition with the Philadelphia title-page (Phila- 



o, ^ delphia, E. L. Carey and A. Hart, MDCCCXXXII). Later, comparison 

 y ' with the Edinburgh has shown that the two are whollv distinct so far as 

 (1 typographical features are concerned. In the text there are slight verbal 

 differences which tend to prove that this Philadelphia issue was printed 

 before the one from abroad. I find no mention of this edition of volume 

 one in the bibliographies I have access to. The attention of the Linna'an 

 Society of New York was called to the matter and the book exhibitetl at a 

 meeting in February. It has also been inspected by Mr. George N. Law- 

 rence. To all, however, it was unknown. There is doubtless a story 

 back of this volume, the recital of which cannot fail to be of inteiest to 

 the curious bibliophile. — Leverett M. Loomis, Chester, S. C. 



Publications Received. — Cantwell, Geo. G. A List of the Birds of 

 Minnesota. (Orn. & Ool., Sept. 1890.) 



Collett, Robert (i) On the immigration of Syrrhaptes paradoxus. Pall., 

 into Norway in 188S. (Sep., 5 pp.) (2) En rugende Coloni af Larus 

 eburneiis paa Spitsbergen. (Aftryk af Tromsoe Mftseums Aarshefter, XII, 

 187-195.) (3) Om 6 for Norges Fauna nye Fugle fundne i 1887-1889, 

 (Christiania Vid.-Selsk. Forh. 1890, No. 4.) 



Goss, N. S. History of the Birds of Kansas. Roj-. 8vo. pp. 692. To- 

 peka, Kansas, Geo. W. Crane & Co., 1891. 



Hagerup, Andreas T., and Montague Chamberlain. The Birds of 

 Greenland. 8yo. pp. 62. Boston, 1891. 



Loomis, Leverett M. An Historical Sketch of South Carolinian Ornith- 

 ology. Large 8vo. pp. 8, New York, 1891. 



Meyer, Dr. A. B., and Dr. F. Helm. V. Jahresbericht (1889) der 

 Ornithologischen Beobactungstationen im Konigreich Sachsen. Nebst 

 einem Anhang: i889er Reobachtungen liber sonstige in Sachsen vor- 

 kommende Thiere. 4to, pp. 80, Dresden, 1890. 



Nehrling, H. Die Nord-Amerikanische Vogelwelt. 9 & 10 Hefte. 



Pelzeln, August von. Geschichte der Siiugethier- und Vogel-Samm- 

 lung des k. k. naturhistorischen Hofmuseuins. (Ann. des k. k. naturhis- 

 torischen Hofmuseums, Bd. V, Heft 4.) 



Reichenow, Anton, (i) Bemerkungen iiber einige afrikanische Arten. 

 (Journ. f. Orn. 1S90, pp. 74-78.) (2) Die Vogel von Kamerun. (Ibid., 

 pp. 103-128.) 



