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102 ftecent Literature. 
All were well pleased with the progress made and the work done by the 
Club in the past year and look forward to even better success in the future. 
— Leon J. Coie, Secretary. 
Errata.— As I was notable to read the proof of my article on the ‘ Birds 
of the Coal Regions of Pennsylvania’ (Auk, Oct., 1896), on account of 
absence from the city, two errors have unfortunately occurred. Turdus 
Sfuscescens, not Turdus aonalaschke pallast, was noted by me at Pottsville 
and Rock Glen. 
I noted Cowbirds at Pottsville on July 14, not July 11—R. T. Youne, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Sharpe’s Catalogue of the Limicolz.'— As Dr. Sharpe says, the collec- 
tion of Limicole in the British Museum “is truly a wonderful one. Of 
the 255 species recorded, the British Museum contains 250, and the types 
are 68 in number.” ‘‘ The specimens arranged and catalogued in it are 
13,440, exclusive of many hundreds of duplicates.” It is hence. easily 
seen that the labor of preparing the present volume was very great, with, 
however, commensurate facilities for arriving at satisfactory results. 
The Limicole are divided into the following six families,— Cidicnem- 
ide, with 4 genera and 11 species; Cursoriide, with 8 genera and 37 
species; Parride, with 7 genera and 11 species; Charadriide, with 76 
genera (44 of them monotypic) and 192 species; Chionide, with 2 
genera and 3 species; and Thinocorythide, with 2 genera and 5 species. 
The family Charadriidz includes 10 subfamilies, most of which have been 
often if not generally accorded the rank of families; as, for example, 
Arenariine, Hematopodine, Charadriine, Himantopodine, Scolopacine,. 
Phalaropodine, etc.; while the genus Aphrzza, sometimes recognized as 
a family, is not only reduced to generic rank, but is placed between 
Ochthodromus and Charadrius. While Sharpe thus degrades the rank of 
many groups usually recognized as families, he goes to the opposite ex- 
1 Catalogue | of the | Limicole | in the | Collection | of the | British Mu- 
seum. | By | R. Bowdler Sharpe. | London: | Printed by order of the Trustees. 
| Sold by | Longmans & Co., 39 Paternoster Row; | B. Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly ; 
Dulau & Co., 37 Soho Square W.; | Kegan Paul & Co., Paternoster House, 
Charing Cross Road; and at the | British Museum (Natural History), Crom- 
well Road, S. W. | 1896.— 8vo, pp. xii +794, pl. vii. = Catalogue of the Birds 
in the British Museum, Vol. XXIV. 
