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In'Gersoli/s Nests and Eggs of American Birds. — Part I of 

 ]\Ir. IngersoU's long-promised woi'k on North American obloofy,* Avhicli is 

 now before us, treats of ten species of Thrushes, and gives ilhistrations of 

 their eggs. The text includes, not only descriptions of the nests and eggs 

 of the species treated, but a full and pleasantly written account of their 

 habits and breeding range. The author shows himself thoroughly familiar 

 with the literature of the subject, and his quotations respecting the species 

 he has not himself had opportunity of studying in the field are in the main 

 selected with commendable judgment. For a popular work on American 

 birds, Mr. Ingersoll could not have chosen a more attractive department 

 of the subject, or one of greater interest to the mass of bird-lovers, 

 and especially to juvenile collectors, Avhose interest in ornithology begins 

 so frequently with the formation of an egg-cabinet. The text of the Part 

 before us gives promise that the subject will be creditably handled. We 

 wish that we could speak in terms of equal commendition of the chromo- 

 lithographic plates, which are sadly defective in point of faithfulness to 

 nature and in artistic execution. We understand, however, that better 

 results may be expected in future numbers. 



The work is announced to appear in monthly parts, the whole to form 

 probably three volumes of twelve parts each. The work is printed on 

 heavy tinted paper, and in point of typography is everything that need be 

 desired. The nomenclature and arrangement are apparently strictly that 

 of Dr. Coues's " Check-I.,ist," the eggs being perhaps numbered to corre- 

 spond with the " Check-List " ; but as there is no direct reference in the 

 text to the figures, some explanation in this regard would have been ac- 

 ceptable, or, better still, the names of the species illustrated might have 

 been placed at the bottom of the plates, in place of the needless legend 

 there borne. — J. A. A. 



A Revised List of Birds of Central New YoRK.f — This 

 is the title of a very neatly gotten-up pamphlet of forty- seven pages, 

 "collated and prepared for publication by Frank R. Rathbun." The 

 original " Rathbun-Fowler List " was published in the " Auburn Daily 

 Advertiser" of August 14, 1877, and has twice been noticed in this 

 Bulletin (Vol. Ill, No. 1, p. 35; and No. 2, p. 85). It was in part a 

 reprint of a list published by Mr, H. Gilbert Fowler in " Forest and 



* Nests and Eggs of American Birds. By Ernest Ingersoll. S. E. Cassino, 

 Naturalists' Agency, Salem, Mass. (No date.) Large 8vo. Pt. I, pp. 1-24. 

 Pll. i, ii. March, 1879. 



+ A Revised List of Birds of Central New York. Based on the Observations 

 of Frank R. Rathbun, H. Gilbert Fowler, Frank S. Wright, Sanuiel F. Rath- 

 bun, in the. Counties of Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca, Wayne, and Yates. 

 Collated and prepared for Publication liy Frank R. Rathbun. Aid)urn, N. Y. : 

 Daily Advertiser and Weekly Journal Book and Job Printing House. April 

 17, 1879. 



