730 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENIDX. 1877 [lG4 



1877. B[REWER], T. M. Vennor's Rapacious Birds of Canada. < Bull. 

 Nutt. Ornith. Club, ii, No. 1, Jan., 1877, pp. 24, 25. 

 Review of the work. 



1877. BREWER, T. M. [Another] Defense of his Catalogue of the Birds of 

 New England. <Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, ii,No. 2, April, 1877, pp. 

 44-48. 



Continuation of the controversy, now degenerated to a personal issue. Cf. op 

 cit. t i, p. 72 and p. 89 ; ii, p. 11 and p. 44. 



1877. BREWER, T. M. How to Rightly Estimate the Economical Value of 

 Birds. < Oologist, iii, No. 1, 1877, pp. 6, 7. 



1877. B[REWSTER], W. Nelson's " Birds of Northeastern Illinois." <Bull. 

 Nutt. Ornith. Club, ii, No. 3, July, 1877, pp. 68, 69. 

 Review of paper in Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, p. 90. 



1877. B[REWSTER], W. Merriam's "Review of the Birds of Connecticut." 



< Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, ii, No. 4, Oct., 1877, pp. 107, 108. 



Review of Merriam's important paper in Trans. Conn. Acad., iv, 1877, pp. 1-165. 



1877. BROWN, N. C. Notes on [five species of] Birds new to the Fauna of 

 Maine, etc. < Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, ii, No. 1, Jan., 1877, pp. 27, 28. 



1877. BROWNE, F. C. A list of Birds observed on and around Clark's Island, 

 Plymouth, Mass. < Forest and Stream, viii, March 22, 1877, p. 96. 



1877. BURROUGHS, J. April. < Scribner's Monthly, xiii, 1877, pp. 799-803. 

 Includes some birds found along the Hudson River in that month. 



1877. " C." Some Newfoundland birds. < Forest and Stream, viii, April 12, 

 1877, p. 145. 



1877. COOPER, J. G. On seventy-five doubtful West-coast Birds. < Bull. 

 Nutt. Ornith. Club, ii, No. 4, Oct., 1877, pp. 88-97. 



This is an important commentary and criticism on this large number of birds 

 ascribed by various writers to the region in question, but which have not been 

 satisfactorily determined to occur there. 



1877. COUES, E. Birds of the North-West : | A Hand-book | of | American 

 Ornithology, | containing accounts of all the birds inhabiting the | 

 Great Missouri Valley, | and many others, together representing a 

 large majority of the | Birds of North America, | with copious bio- 

 graphical details from personal | observation, and an extensive 

 synonymy. | | By Elliott Coues, | Captain and Assistant Surgeon 

 U. S. Army : Secretary U. S. | Geological Survey : Member of the 

 National Acadamy [sic] of Sciences, etc : Author of " Key to North | 

 American Birds," "Field Ornithology," etc. | | [Monogram.]) 

 Boston : | Estes & Lauriat, | Salem Naturalists' Agency, | 1877. 1 

 vol. 8vo. pp. xi,791. 



This is simply 214 copies of the original Birds of the North -Weft, 1874, q. v., 

 reissued, rebound with publishers' new title-leaf as above. 



1877. C[OUES], E. Minot's " Birds of New England." < Bull. Nutt. Ornith. 

 Club, ii, No. 2, April, 1877, pp. 49, 50. 

 Review of the work. 



1877. [COUES, E.] The Land Birds and Game Birds of New England. 



< Forest and Stream, vii, Jan. 25, 1877, p. 391. 

 Review of H. D. Minot'a book of that name. 



