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prises two hundred and seventy pages and treats .... tbe whole order 

 Oscines. . . .The claims of each species to be considered a member of the 

 New England Fauna are critically examined. . . .the design being to give 

 a thoroughly reliable list of the Birds, with an account of the leading 

 facts in the life-history of each species. The plan of the work includes 

 brief descriptions of the birds themselves, enabling one to identify any 

 specimen . . .To say that the book is exceedingly well-written would be 

 doing it scant justice. Dr. Coues's brilliant talents in this respect are 

 already well known, but we have perhaps uever had so striking a proof 



of them as is afforded by the present volume Mr. Stearns may be 



congratulated on his wise choice of an editor. W. B., JiiUl. Natt. Ornitk. 

 Club, Vol. VI., pp. 23(5-240, October, 1881. 



1882. 



BICKNELL, EUGENE PINTARD. A Review of the Summer Birds of a 

 part of The Catskill Mountains, with prefatory remarks on the 

 fitunul and floral features of the region. By Eugene Pintard 

 Bioknell. Transactions of the Linncean Society of New York. 

 Vol. I., pp. 113-168, December, 1882. 



....is based on observations made "during brief explorations of 

 the more southern Catskills in three successive years, from June ti-15, 



1880; 12-18, 1881; 24-27, l82 Twenty-five of the total fifty-six 



pages are devoted to prefatory remarks. . . .Mr. Bicknell evidently has 

 a penchant for the analysis and comparison of fauna:, and his remarks 

 in the present connection are decideUly interesting . . The list proper 

 includes eighty-nine species and varieties. It is very fully annotated. 

 W. B., Bull. Nutt. OrnUh. Club, Vol. VIII., p. 53, January, 1883. 



BLASIUS, RUDOLPH. V. Jahresbericht (1880) des Ausschlusses fur 

 Beobachtungs-stationeu der Vogel Deutschlands. Journal fur 

 Ornithologie, XXX Jahrg., Heft I, Jan., 1882, pp. 18-110. 



The fifth annual report of the German observers for the year 1880 

 ... is presented in the lorm of an annotated list of 280 species, com- 

 piled from the reports of the various observers . ..The notes relate to 

 nesting of many of the species, as well as to their migrations .... There 

 are . . . reports from no less than 36 stations, and the resume of the obser- 

 vations taken forms a paper of great interest and value. J. A. A., Hall. 

 Suit. OrnUh. Club,\o\. VIII., pp. 2'2 1 J, '^30, October, 1883. 



BROWN, NATHAN CLIFFORD. A Catalogue of the Birds known to occur 

 ill the vicinity of Portland, Me. [etc. ] By Nathan Clifford 

 Brown. Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., Dec. 4, 1882. 



This excellent local list is stated to be prepared from notes sys- 

 tematically taken during the past twelve years, and to contain the 

 names of scarcely any species which have not passed under the author's 

 personal observation, its reliability is therefore evident. The number 

 of species given is 250 . . .The annotations, though nut extensive, are to 

 the point and seem judiciously adapted to convey a fair idea of the part 

 each species plays in the composition of the Avifauna. .. E.G., 

 Hull. Suit. Ornitk. Club, Vol. VIII., pp. 112, 113, April, 18S3. 



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