Recall LUcratiirc. [ jTrm.iry 



The dates at which various insects are first seen. 



Tlie dates of the flowering of various plants. 



The dates of the leafins: and fallins' of the leaves of var- 



ious trees and shrubs. 



8. The dates of the breaking up and disappearance of the 

 ice in rivers and lakes in spring, and of the freezing over of the 

 same in the fall. 



C. Hart Merriam, 

 Chairman of Committee on Migration^ 

 I^octt.st Grovc^ Lewis County^ 



New Tork. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Nelson's Birds of Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean.* — The late 

 Mr. G. R. Gray, who had a habit of literal exactitude in handling 

 the names of birds, might have reaped a fine crop of new generic 

 and specific terms from this treatise, in which manj of the scientific 

 designations are misprinted in bold-faced type, not all of these being 

 accounted for in the list of errata which constitutes page 56 e. It is easy 

 to see that a page of matter relating to the Spoon-billed Sandpiper 

 divorces two species oi Actodromas from the other two treated; but 

 by the erratum leaf alone can we discover that the matter headed Ar- 

 quatella maritima relates to a bird "lately described by Mr. Ridgway" ; 



* Contained in : Cruise | of the | Revenue-steamer | Corwin | in | Alaska and the 

 N. W. Arctic Ocean | in | 1881. | — j Notes and Memoranda: Medical and Anthropo- 

 logical ; I Botanical ; Ornithological. | — | Washington : | Government Printing Office. 

 I 1883. I vol. 4to, pp. I — 56, 56 a—/; 57 — 120, with 12 pll. not numbered and some not 

 lettered, and various woodcc. in text. The ornithological matter is half-titled | — | 

 Birds of Bering Sea and the Arcdc Ocean. | By | E. W. Nelson. | — I 55 I ft occupies 

 pp. ^5_ 56, 5612— /I 57 — 118, with 4 colored plates. 



In mechanical execution, this piece of book-making is a miraculous botch. One 

 familiar with the possibilities of political printing has still something to learn from in- 

 specdon of this reahzation. In the copy examined, for example, the title-page is upside 

 down, and makes the fifth leaf of the book, preceded by a bastard title-page and two 

 pages of text, likewise upside down,, and faced by a plate of a fish which belongs to an 

 ichthyological article at the end of the book — though no hint of ichthyology is given in 

 the statement of 'Notes and memoranda' which the title duly sets forth, while the bro- 

 ken pagination and the entirely unnumbered and partly unlettered plates prepare us 

 for the typographical eccentricities above noted. 



