2 46 Recent Literature. peti 
Anderson’s Birds of Winnebago and Hancock Counties, Iowa.! — This 
is a carefully annotated list of 218 species, based on six years’ obser- 
vations by the author, mainly in the immediate vicinity of Forrest City, 
Towa, about seventeen miles south of the Minnesota boundary, and on 
the meridian of Des Moines. Two pages of introduction describe the 
topography of the region. The author states that ‘no species is enumer- 
ated of which the identification is doubtful,” most of the species having 
been personally observed or collected by him. Credit is given to other 
observers for notes on several species which have escaped his notice. 
In a list so generally free from typographical errors, it seems strange to 
see Dendroica spelled Dentrotca in each of the nine cases when it is 
used. —J. A. A. 
Ricker’s Notes on the Birds of Hull, Mass.2— The rvazson d’étre of this 
annotated list of some 76 species is not very evident, based, as it admit- 
tedly is, on rather limited observations. Hull is of course a very 
restricted locality, and not especially favorable for birds, which may to 
some extent account for the very small number of species here recorded. 
The list contains nothing noteworthy on account of rarity or otherwise, 
while many of the species are not very positively identified. —J. A. A. 
Howe’s Birds of Brookline, Mass.*— One hundred and thirty-six spe- 
cies have been noted during the last six years within the town limits of 
Brookline, Mass. The list is briefly annotated, from the notes of Mr. 
Howe and five other well known observers. The haunts of a number of 
species have been recently destroyed, and the birds forced to seek other 
resorts; yet 72 species are recorded as regularly breeding within the town 
‘limits, and 47 occur as regular migrants. —J. A. A. 
Tegetmeier’s ‘ Pheasants.’ 4__This authoritative manual, now in its 
third edition, has long been recognized as a standard work on the hatch- 
1An Annotated List of the | Birds | of | Winnebago and Hancock Counties, 
Iowa. | —Being a List of Birds Observed in the Counties of | Winnebago and 
Hancock, State of Iowa, with Brief | Notes on the Same. | — | Forest City, 
Towa. | Printed by the Author. | 1897. — 16mo, title page, pp. i, li, I-19. 
2 Notes on the | Birds of Hull | Massachusetts, | by Everett W. Ricker. | 
Illustrated. | Newtonville. | C. J. Maynard. | 1896. —16mo, pp. 36, with 3 
col. pll., and several figs. in text, some colored. 
3 Birds of Brookline, Mass. A list prepared by Reginald Heber Howe, Jr. 
Fol., pp. 2, Jan., 1897. 
4Pheasants | their | Natural History and Practical Management. | By | 
W. B. Tegetmeier | (Member of the British Ornithologists’ Union), | Author 
of “ The Natural History of the Cranes,” ‘‘ Table and | Market Poultry,” Etc., 
Etc. | [Design.] Third Edition, Enlarged. | Hlustrated from Life by Messrs: 
J. G. Millais, T. W. Wood, | P. Smit, and F. W. Frohawk, Etc. | London: | 
Horace Cox, | “The Field” Office, Bream’s Buildings, E. C. | — | 1897. | 
(All rights reserved.) — 8vo, pp. xii, 237, pll. 16. 
