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90 species of birds found nesting in the Catskill region, with exhaustive 

 remarks on the floral and faunal areas represented. This list of 54 pages 

 gives us our first definite and reliable knowledge concerning the Canadian 

 fauna which inhabits the summits of the Catskills. 



Our Birds and Their Haunts, by Rev. J. H. Langille (Estes & Lauriat, 

 Boston, 1884) is an extremely interesting volume devoted to the commoner 

 native birds of the northeastern states. A large portion of the records 

 refer to western New York where the author formerly resided. 



Birds of Chautauqua County, by John M. Edson, is an address delivered 

 before the Chautauqua Society of History and Natural Science, in James- 

 town, N. Y., January 29, 1885. It is a briefly annotated list of 152 species. 



A List of the Birds of Onondaga County, by Morgan K. Barnum, Syracuse 

 University, 1886, is a reliable list of 204 species. 



An Annotated List of the Birds of Oneida County, N . Y ., and its Immediate 

 Vicinity, by William L. Ralph M.D., and Egbert Bagg, Oneida Historical 

 Society, volume 3, page 101, 1886, is an exhaustive and reliable list. 

 Together with the additions which have appeared in the Auk up to 1900, 

 the Oneida county list contains 248 species, of which 109 have been found 

 breeding in that vicinity. 



Birds of Xiagara County, N . Y ., by James L. Davison, appeared in 

 Forest and Stream, in 1889, and names 204 sj^ecies, with 93 breeding in the 

 county. 



A List of the Birds of Buffalo and Vicinity, by W. H. Bergtold, M. D., 

 from the Bulletin of the Buffalo Naturalists Club, volume i, number 7, 

 1889, mentions 237 species very briefly and gives 1 1 1 as breeding near Buffalo. 



An Annotated List of the Birds Known to Occur within Fifty Miles of 

 New York City, b)- Frank M. Chapman, American Museum of Natural 

 History, 1894, and a revised edition of the same in the American Museum 

 Journal, volume 6, numbers 2 and 3, 1906, names 348 species in the first 

 edition and 353 in the second, besides three extirpated species, four species 

 liberated but not established, one doubtful and not counted (Stormv petrel), 

 and three forms not regarded as valid species. Mr Chapman's nesting and 



