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KINO, F. H. Economic Rotations of Wisconsin Birds. By F. H. 

 King. Wisconsin Geological Murray, Vol. I., chap, xi., pp.441 -610, 

 figg. 103-144. Royal 8 vo. 



. . . .Prof King's field-work. . . .was commenced in 1873, and is appar- 

 ently only just concluded- his attention during this long period being 

 steadily and rigidly directed to discovering what and how mucb food 

 Wisconsin birds eat . . . The facts recorded . . were obtained from an 

 examination of the contents of over 1.800 birds ...The Introduction 

 closes with "a Temporary Classification of Wisconsin Birds on an econ- 

 omic basis " . . The body of the report is primarily of the nature of an 

 ordinary -'local list "for the State of Wisconsin, giving in systematic 

 order 25)5 species. . . .The report is well written, giving in many cases 

 extended biographies . . .The numerous woodcuts are chiefly taken from 

 Baird. Brewer, and Kidgway. E. C., Jinll. Null. Ornilh. Club, Vol. VIII., 

 pp. 107-110, April, 1883. 



LAWRENCE, GEORGE N. Descriptions of New Species of Birds of the 

 Genera Chrysotis, Formicivora, and Spermophila. By George 

 N. Lawrence. Ann. New York Acad. .Set., Vol. II., 18S2, No. 

 12, pp. 381-383. Issued June, 1883. 



The species here described are : 1. Chrysotis canifrons. . . .2. Fonni- 

 c'w<>ra grisf.igula . . . . and 3. Sperm* rphtta jxirva ...- J. A. A., The Auk, 

 Vol. I., p. 387, October, 1884. 



MORTON, THOMAS, and ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS, JR. The New En- 

 glish Canaan of Thomas Morton. With Introductory Matter and 

 Notes by Charles Francis Adams, Jr. Boston : Published by the 

 Prince Society. 1883. Srn.4to., pp. vi, 381. Chap. IV. Of 

 Birds and Fethered Fowles, pp. 189-199. With notes by William 

 Brewster and the Editor. 



....reprinting Thomas Morton's "New English Canaan" (pub- 

 lished originally in 1637), with editorial notes .. .The technical notes 

 on the birds, by Mr. Brewster, form an excellent commentary on the 

 species mentioned by Morton ...Morton's New English Canaan, as 

 thus admirably edited, includes nearly everything of interest bearing 

 upon the natural history of New England contained in these early 

 accounts of New England . . . The work is limited to 250 copies, and in 

 typography and paper is a noteworthy specimen of book -making. 

 J. A. A., The Auk, Vol. I., p. 84, January, 1884. 



NELSON, E. W. Birds of Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean. By E. W. 

 Nelson. Cruise of the Revenue-steamer Corwiu in Alaska and 

 the N. W. Arctic Ocean in 1881. Notes and Memoranda : Medical 

 and Anthropological ; Botanical ; Ornithological. Washington : 

 Government Printing Office. 1883. 1 vol., 4to., pp. 55, 56, 

 56'i-/, 57-118; with 4 colored plates. 



. . . .It is a pity that so valuable and interesting a treatise as this of 

 Mr. Nelson's should not have been more carefully printed ...After 

 some pages concisely descriptive of the region and its avifauna, the 

 author proceeds to treat, in more or less detail, no fewer than 192 spe- 

 cies of birds, North American with few exceptions. .. .it is illustrated 



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