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of contributions to local ornithology. . . .In respect to nomenclature, the 

 list is abreast with the latest well-grounded innovations. J. A. A., Bull. 

 Null. Ornilh. Club, Vol. VI., p. 172, July, 1881. 



MINOT, H. D. The Diary of a Bird. By H. D. Minot. Boston: A. 

 Williams & Co., 1880, 8vo., pp. 38, cuts. 



This entertaining and pleasantly written piece of bird-gossip is re- 

 presented to be a translation of a " Diary" of a "Black-throated Green 

 Warbler, M and recounts, among other things the doings of "a grand 

 mass meeting" of the birds to discuss "The Destruction and Extermi- 

 nation of Birds; how caused and how to be prevented." in which various 

 members of the great bird convention relate their grievances. .. .The 

 object of this attractive little brochure is to awaken popular interest in 

 the general subject of the better protection of our birds, not only 

 against the professional market gunner, but from their wholesale de- 

 struction to meet the demands of the milliner. J. A. A., BuH Knit. 

 Ornilh. Club, Vol. V., p. 112, April, 1880. 



NEHULING, H. Ornithologische Beobachtungen aus Texas. I. Von 

 H. Nehrling. MonatsschriftdesDeutschen Vereins zum Schutze 

 der Vogelwelt, V Jahrgang, No. 7, Juli, 1880, pp. 122-139. 



These observations consist of a running commentary on the more 

 common birds met with by Dr. Nehrling in March, April, and May, 

 1879. in Lee and Fayette Counties, Texas. It is apparently the first of 

 a series of papers on the birds of Texas. . . .with, incidentally, notes on 

 the mammals, the plants, and the general character of the country. . . . 

 J. A. A., Bull. Nutl. OrnWi. Llub, Vol. VI., p. 109, April, 1881. 



OBEK, FREDERICK A. Camps in the Caribbees: The Adventures of a 

 Naturalist in the Lesser Antilles. By Frederick A. Ober. Boston: 

 Lee and Shepard. New York: Charles T. Dillingham. 1880. 

 8vo., pp. xviii, 366, with 34 illus. 



....The general text introduces a good deal of ornithological 

 matter, which will be found of interest and value, and the appendix is 

 entirely devoted to this subject. It gives Mr. Lawrence's summary list 

 of the species, 128 in number. .... and also reproduces the original de- 

 scriptions of all the new species discovered by the energetic and suc- 

 cessful explorer. E. C., Bull. Null. Ornilh. Club, Vol. V., p. 179, July, 

 1880. 



REICHENOW, ANTON, and SCHALOW, HEEMANN.-- Compendium der neu 

 beschriebeueu Gattungeu und Arten. Von Anton Reichenow und 

 Hermann Schalow. Journal fur Ornilhologie, 1879, pp. 308-329, 

 420-437; 1880, pp. 97-102, 194-209, 314-324. 



The authors of the "Compendium" are placing ornithologists 

 under a debt of gratitude in prom ply bringing together the diagnoses 

 of the new genera and species of current ornithological literature. The 

 last instalment apparently covers the first half of the year 1880, and the 

 families from Caculidfi: upward through the Oscines . . . . J. A. A., Bull. 

 Nult. Ornilh. dub, Vol. VI., p. Ill, April, 1881. 



RKICHENOW, ANTON, and SCHALOW, HERMANN. -Zoologischer Jahres- 

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