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Recent Literature. 



already fully noticed in this Bulletin. Its utility no working ornitholo- 

 gist can fail to highly appreciate, while it will form an enduring monu- 

 ment to the author's patience, industry, and thoroughness of research. — 

 J. A. A. 



Coues's Fourth Instalment of Ornithological Bibliography.* 

 — Thi> "Fourth Instalment" is of the same character as the first two. and 

 attempts to do for British Birds what those did for American Birds. It 

 accordingly is intended to include " the titles of all publications treating 

 of British Birds as such, exclusively, or indiscriminately and collectively." 

 '•In order to fall within the scope of this fourth instalment," says the 

 author, " a publication must relate to British Birds as such. Secondly, 

 it must relate to British Birds exclusively. Thirdly, it must relate to birds 

 of more than one species, genus, or family." "This instalment." the 

 author further states. " like those which have preceded it. is to he con- 

 sidered in the light of published proof-sheets, to he cancelled on the final 

 appearance of the whole work." The titles here given fill upward of a 

 hundred pages, yet the author believes that they include not more than 

 one-half of the number really belonging here, and urges that defects and 

 omissions be kindly brought to his notice. As it is. being accurate as far 

 as it goes, it will prove of great usefulness, and is entitled to the cordial 

 welcome it will doubtless receive. — J. A. A. 



HARVIE-BROWN on the CAPERCAILLIE i\ Scotland. + — As already 

 noticed in the pages of the Bulletin. (Vol. V. pp. no, in), Mr. Harvie- 

 Brown published last year an exhaustive little work on the L'apercaillie 

 in Scotland, giving a history of its extinction and subsequent introduction 



and dispersion. The present paper is a continuation of the Appendix of 

 that work. ui\ in^ an account of its extension in 1S79. with a few additional 

 references to early records of its presence in Scotland and Wales. — J. A. A. 



Steere on the Birds of Ann Arbor. Michigan.} — This briefly 

 annotated list of m species is good as far as it goes, but is obviously very 

 imperfect, including less than half of the species that undoubtedly occur 

 there. The author himself thus speaks of it : "This does not pretend to 

 be a complete list of the birds found about Ann Arbor : but. with the excep- 

 tion of a few, given upon the authority of labeled specimens in the 

 Museum, it is the result of about three years' collecting and observation 

 in this vicinity" (p. 7). — J. A. A. 



* Fourth Instalment of Ornithological Bibliography : being a list of Fauna! Publica- 

 tions relating to British Birds. By Dr. Elliott Coues, U. S. A. Proc. U. S. Xat. Mus, 

 Vol. II, pp. 359-476. Published " May 31, 1880." 



t The Capercaillie in Scotland. By J. A. Harvie-Brown, F. R. S. Scottish Natu- 

 ralist, July, 1880. Author's reprint, pp. 1-7. 



% A List of the Mammals and Birds of Ann Arbor and Vicinity. By Professor J. B. 

 Steere. 8vo, 8 pp. 1880. 



