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The Revised New Nuttall.— The second edition of the Nuttall- 
Chamberlain ‘ Manual,’ recently issued,' comes to us under a modified 
title, properly indicating the scope of the work.? It is also embellished 
with twenty chromolithographic plates, giving figures of about 110 species. 
In the case of the majority of the species, they are sufficiently truthful in 
coloring to be of material service to the inexperienced student of birds ; in 
the other cases they are very good reproductions of very poor originals. 
The text, of course, is mainly as in the first edition, being printed from 
the same electrotype plates, but many important corrections have been 
made, here and there, in the parts by Mr. Chamberlain, through which 
means the work is more nearly ‘brought down to date,’ and much 
improved. This is noticeable especially in the matter relating to the 
subject of geographical distribution; but if one were disposed to be 
critical, various desirable improvements, overlooked in the present revi- 
sion, might be pointed out. 
The preface to the first edition, or what purports to be such, is retained, 
but comparison of it with the preface to the first edition shows that 19 lines 
in pp. vi and vii have been expunged and replaced by 21 lines of new 
matter, of quite different import and much more creditable to the taste of 
the editor. Yet the preface, thus materially altered, still bears date 
“September, 1891.” This, to say the least, is an idiosyncrasy in book- 
making we do not remember to have before seen. 
This revised edition of the Nuttall-Chamberlain ‘Manual,’ with its 
amended title and important correction in the text, and the added helpful 
colored illustrations, is well deserving of generous patronage, as a 
‘Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of Eastern North America.’— 
TS ANS FANG 
Millais on Change to Spring Plumage without a Moult.*— The intent 
of this paper is to show that in acquiring their summer plumage certain 
species of water-birds undergo not a moult but a recoloration and restora- 
tion of the old feathers of the winter dress. The Sanderling ( Calédris 
arenaria) is taken as a typical example of this change, and feathers 
‘A Popular Handbook | of the | Ornithology | of | Eastern North America. 
| By | Thomas Nuttall. | Second revised and annotated edition | By Montague 
Chamberlain. | With Additions | and One Hundred and Ten Illustrations in 
Colors. | [Cut of Hummingbird] Vol. I | The Land Birds. | [Vol. II. Game 
and Water Birds.] | Boston: | Little, Brown, and Company. | 1896. —2 vols, 
crown 8yo. Vol. I, pp. i-liv, 1-473; Vol. II, pp. i-vii, 1-431, col. pll. i-xx, 
and 172 illustrations in the text. 
> For notice of the first edition, see Auk, IX, 1892, pp. 59-61. 
3 On the Change of Birds to Spring Plumage without a Moult. By John 
Guille Millais. Ibis, 7th ser., Vol. II, Oct. 1896, pp. 451-457, pl. x. 
