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we are enabled to discover on page 1276 the commence- 

 ment of the portion of the work relating to Ornithology, 

 which enarbraces altogether about 304 pages. It commences 

 with what professes to be a complete list of the titles of 

 all ornithological books and papers published in 1901. But 

 this list, we regret to say, is by no means complete. For 

 example, nine of the principal papers published in ' The 

 Ibis - ' for 1901 are altogether omitted*! There can be no 

 excuse for these omissions, as the corresponding volume of 

 the ' Zoological Record/ which was issued in December 1902, 

 contains them all. Moreover, we are officially informed that 

 the MS. of the " Authors' Catalogue " was not completed until 

 August 1903, so that a simple reference to the " Aves " of the 

 ' Zoological Record ; would have saved the compiler of the 

 " Aves " of the International Catalogue this grievous error. 

 There are also numerous omissions of titles of important 

 articles published in 1901 in other well-known periodicals 

 which we have consulted — ' The Auk,' ' Ornis/ &c. Again, 

 the issue in 1901 of many important ornithological works 

 is altogether omitted — e . y., Seebohm's ' Monograph of the 

 Thrushes' (part xi.), 'Sharpe's Hand-list of Birds' (vol. hi.), 

 Slater's ' Manual of the Birds of Iceland/ and Reichenow's 

 ' Vogel Afrikas' (vol. i.). Dr. Bowdler Sharpe is credited with 

 only two ornithological papers in 1901, the whole of those 

 published in the ' Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club' 

 being omitted. But we need not prolong the list of omissions, 

 which, in fact, render the ornithological portion of the 

 Zoological Volume of the International Catalogue quite 

 unreliable as regards the literature of 1901. On the other 

 hand, many titles of insignificant papers on the breeding of 

 Canary-birds and similarly trivial subjects are inserted, which 

 swell the list but are utterly useless to the scientific worker. 

 After the general list of publications on Birds in the 

 " Subject Catalogue " come the special subjects and the titles 



* See the papers of the following- authors in the volume for 1901 : — 

 Shelley (p. 167), Stone (p. 177), Sclater, W. L. (p. 183), Witherby 

 (p. 237), Baker (p. 411), Finn (p. 423), Perkins (p. 562), Shelley (p. 586), 

 and Sclater, P. L. (p. 595). 



