﻿Recently 
  published 
  Ornithological 
  Works. 
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  92. 
  Hatch 
  on 
  the 
  Birds 
  of 
  Minnesota. 
  

  

  [First 
  Eeport 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Zoologist, 
  accompanied 
  with 
  Notes 
  on 
  the 
  

   Birds 
  of 
  Minnesota, 
  by 
  Dr. 
  P. 
  L. 
  Hatch.— 
  Henry 
  F. 
  Nachtrieb, 
  State 
  

   Zoologist. 
  8vo. 
  Minneapolis, 
  1892.] 
  

  

  The 
  States 
  of 
  America 
  are 
  following 
  tlie 
  lead 
  of 
  the 
  

   counties 
  of 
  England, 
  and 
  will 
  soon 
  each 
  have 
  their 
  volume 
  

   on 
  their 
  native 
  birds. 
  That 
  for 
  the 
  great 
  Western 
  State 
  of 
  

   Minnesota 
  is 
  now 
  before 
  us, 
  kindly 
  forwarded 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Henry 
  

   F. 
  Nachtrieb, 
  the 
  " 
  State 
  Zoologist/' 
  from 
  Minneapolis. 
  It 
  

   has 
  been 
  prepared 
  by 
  Dr. 
  P. 
  L. 
  Hatch, 
  who 
  has 
  for 
  some 
  

   years 
  been 
  engaged 
  in 
  collecting 
  notes 
  on 
  the 
  subject. 
  To 
  

   these 
  notes 
  the 
  specific 
  characters 
  of 
  each 
  species 
  are 
  added. 
  

   The 
  nomenclature 
  and 
  arrangement 
  are 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  

   A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  

  

  93. 
  Helms 
  on 
  the 
  Birds 
  of 
  South 
  Greenland. 
  

  

  [Ornithologiske 
  lagttagelser 
  fra 
  Arsukfjorden, 
  Sydgrouland. 
  Af 
  O. 
  

   Helms. 
  Vidensk. 
  Naturh. 
  Foreu. 
  i 
  Kjobenh. 
  1892, 
  p. 
  221.] 
  

  

  These 
  notes 
  were 
  made 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Helms 
  during 
  a 
  thirteen 
  

   months' 
  residence 
  at 
  Ivigtut, 
  on 
  the 
  Arsuk 
  Fiord, 
  in 
  South 
  

   Greenland, 
  from 
  April 
  1890 
  to 
  June 
  1891. 
  They 
  are 
  

   supplemented 
  wath 
  those 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Th. 
  Krabbe, 
  who 
  stayed 
  at 
  

   the 
  neighbouring 
  station 
  of 
  Arsuk 
  from 
  August 
  1889 
  to 
  

   October 
  1890. 
  They 
  relate 
  to 
  44 
  species, 
  of 
  which 
  only 
  7 
  

   are 
  Passeres. 
  

  

  94. 
  Hudson's 
  ' 
  Birds 
  in 
  a 
  Village.' 
  

  

  [Birds 
  in 
  a 
  Village. 
  By 
  W. 
  H. 
  Hudson, 
  C.M.Z.S. 
  Bvo. 
  London 
  : 
  

   1893. 
  Chapman 
  and 
  Hall.] 
  

  

  Under 
  this 
  title 
  Mr. 
  Hudson 
  gives 
  us 
  another 
  volume 
  of 
  his 
  

   charming 
  essays 
  on 
  themes 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  connected 
  with 
  bird- 
  

   life, 
  the 
  principal 
  article 
  containing 
  an 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  birds 
  

   observed 
  in 
  a 
  " 
  rustic 
  village, 
  not 
  more 
  than 
  twenty-five 
  

   minutes' 
  walk 
  from 
  a 
  small 
  station, 
  only 
  one 
  hour 
  from 
  

   London/' 
  to 
  which 
  he 
  retreated 
  in 
  the 
  summer 
  of 
  last 
  year. 
  

   Some 
  of 
  the 
  smaller 
  articles 
  are 
  reprinted 
  from 
  well-known 
  

   periodicals. 
  They 
  will 
  all 
  be 
  read 
  with 
  pleasure, 
  not 
  only 
  

   because 
  of 
  the 
  subjects 
  spoken 
  of, 
  but 
  also 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  

  

  