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and Elliott Cones. Caml)ri(lge, Mass. : Published by the Club. Vols. 

 I to VIII, 187(}-'83. (Address C. F. Batchelder, Treasurer, Cambridge, 

 JMass.) 



Continued as The Auk, which see. 



Chamberlain, Montague. A Popular Handbook of the Orni- 

 thology of the [Eastern] United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's 

 Manual. . . . V^ol. I, The Land IJirds, pp. i-xlviii, 1-473; Vol. II, 

 Uunu! and Water Birds, pp. i-vii, 1-431. bvo, numerous illustrations. 



The Code of Nomenclature and Chock-List of North American 

 Birds, adopted by the American Ornithologists' Union. Being the 

 Report of the Committee of the Union on Classification and Nomen- 

 clature. . . . New York: American Ornithologists' Union, 1886. 8vo, 

 pp. i-viii, 1-393. 



This edition is now out of print ; a revised edition, without the 

 Code of Nomenclalure, will ai)pear during the present year. An 

 abridged edition, giving only the systenuitic 'ind English names, was 

 published in 1889. 



CouES, Elliott. Key to North American Birds, . . . with which 

 arc incorporated General Ornithology, an Outline of the Structure and 

 Classification of Birds; and Field Ornilliology, a Manual of Collect- 

 ing, Preparing, and Preserving Birds. Profusely illustrated. Boston: 

 Estcs & Lauriat, 1884. Royal 8vo, pp. i-xxx, l-8(i2. 



This is issued iis the second edition of the " Key " published in 1872, 

 but is really the first edition of the new " Key." Several reprints, with 

 an aj)pendix giving newly described birds, recent changes in nomencla- 

 ture, etc., have apjjcared. The influence of this work in promoting 

 ornithological research in America can not be overestimated. To one 

 intcnduig to enter upon the scientific study of birds it is indispensable. 



Davik, Oliver. Nest and Eggs of North American Birds. Third 

 edition, revised and augmented. Introduction by J. Parker Norris. 

 Columbus [Ohio]: Ilann & Adair, 1889. 8vo, pp. i-xii, 1-455. Thir- 

 teen plates. 



KisiiER, A. K. The Hawks and Owls of the United States in their 

 Relation to Agriculture Prepared under the Direction of Dr. C. Hart 

 Merriam, Chief of Division. Bulletin No. 3, Division of Ornithology 

 and Mammalogy, United States Department of Agriculture: Wash- 

 ington, 1893. 8vo, pp. 1-210. Twenty-ftve colored plates. 



Viewed from whatever standpoint, this is a model work. 



Goss, N. S. History of the Birds of Kansas. Illustrating Five 

 Hundred and Twenty-nine Birds. Topokn, Kansas: George W. Crane 

 & Co., 1891. Royal 8vo, pp. 1-093. Tliirty-five plates. 



