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lail to appreciate the good office Mr. Bailey has rendered us all ; and every 

 one upon whom the bibliographical blight has descended knows what an 

 immense amount of industry that curse entails. The author has our hearty 

 sympathy in the latter, and our best thanks for the former. His work is 

 more than a mere alphabetical list of names, followed by reference figures; 

 for it includes, as the title says, a summary of each article indexed — often 

 giving just the points wanted, thus rendering it unnecessary to look up 

 the reference. The Index also includes authors' names, and among these 

 the authorship of many pseudonyms and initial-signatures are for the first 

 time properly exposed. The summation of the bird-matters seems to be 

 quite complete, and is certainly extensive, in the cases of some common 

 game birds occupying several pages. We presume the work is not free 

 from faults and errors of all sorts, because nothing of the kind can be ; 

 but we have found it more reliable than its mechanical execution would 

 lead one to expect. Considering how great a favor Mr. Bailey has conferred 

 upon the publishers, and how much good his Index will do the paper, by 

 •' setting it up " in the estimation of working ornithologists higher even 

 than it was before, his work might have been better dressed. — E. C. 



Chamberlain's Catalogue of the Birds of New Brunswick.* — 

 As many of bur readers are doubtless aware, Mr. Montague Chamberlain 

 has been engaged, for some time past, in investigating the bird fauna of 

 New Brunswick, and an interesting result of his labors is now before us in 

 the form of a catalogue of the birds of that Province. This paper, which 

 forms by far the most important one in the publication of which it is 

 a part, comprises some forty-thYee pages which are divided into two sec- 

 tions; • 'Section A" being restricted lo species which occur in St. John 

 and King's Counties"; while "Section B" embraces '-species which have 

 not been observed in Saint John or King's Counties but which occur in 

 other parts of the Province." 



The former division treats of a region to which the author has evidently 

 paid special attention, and the text, being mainly based on his personal 

 observations or investigations, includes many interesting and several im- 

 portant notes and records. From these we gather that the rather marked 

 Alleghanian tinge which is known to pervade the bird-fauna of the entire 

 coast region of Maine, as far as Eastport and Calais, extends still further 

 eastward. Thus the Catbird, White-eyed Vireo, Towhee Bunting. Cow- 

 bird, Meadow Lark, Baltimore Oriole, Carolina Dove, Least Bittern, 

 Florida Gallinule, and a few others scarcely less characteristic of the more 

 southern tauna, have been found within the area treated by the present 

 paper, but all are marked as rare, and the greater number as merely 

 accidental visitors. Many of the more important records have already 

 been published elsewhere. 



* A Catalogue of the Birds of New Brunswick, with brief notes relating to their mi- 

 grations, breeding, relative abundance, etc. By Montague Chamberlain. Bulletin of 

 the Natural History Society of New Brunswick. No. i, pp. 23-68. Published by the 

 Society. Saint John, N. B., 1882. 



