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The "■ Third Annual Issue " of " Zoology, Part iii. Verte- 

 brata/' is stated to have been completed in MS. in June 

 1905, and is dated " November 1905 " *. It is arranged on 

 the same plan as the second. " Aves " occupy 142 pages. 

 The preliminary list of titles is numbered throughout (which 

 was not done in the " Second Issue'"), and shews that 1260 

 books and memoirs are catalogued. These are mostly publi- 

 cations of 1903, though some of 1902 and 1904 are also 

 entered. 



Looking (casually) through the two volumes we certainly 

 find fewer misentries and mistakes than in the " First Annual 

 Issue. " At the same time it is not difficult to detect errors 

 which might have been easily avoided if the precaution had 

 been taken of having the proofs read through by an " orni- 

 thological expert." It could hardly be expected that the 

 " Referees" (Prof. Minchin and Mr. J. T. Cunningham), 

 good men as they are, could understand all the technical 

 terms of ornithology, but further aid could easily have been 

 obtained. 



One of the most useful parts of the last two volumes to 

 the working ornithologist is the " List of New Genera and 

 Species." But instead of quoting the exact book and page 

 where these new terms are to be found, the only reference 

 supplied is a (mysterious) number, which gives the place 

 where the work in question is to be found entered in the 

 Authors' Catalogue. Thus another index must be sought 

 and searched in order to obtain the desired information, 

 which might just as easily have been given direct. 



We conclude with a most satisfactory announcement 

 which is contained in the last Report of the Councd of the 

 Zoological Society. It is obviously a great waste of time 

 and money to have two Records of the year's zoological 

 work going on at the same time — one in the ' International 

 Catalogue of Scientific Literature ' and the . other in the 

 'Zoological Record.' Beginning with the present year, 

 therefore, the Council of the Zoological Society and the 



* The copy in the Zoological Society's Library is marked as received 

 in January L906. 



