248 feecent Literature. ners 
Cory’s List of the Birds of Eastern North America.!— This ‘‘list 
includes all birds which are known to occur in North America east of the 
ninetieth meridian.” It is very slightly annotated with reference “to 
species which occur in New England, Illinois,and Florida. Taking these 
States to form the points of an imaginary triangle, a somewhat crude idea 
of the range of species which occur within this area may be obtained,” 
etc. The annotations generally consist of the use of the abbrevia- 
tions “N. E.”, “‘Fla.”, and ‘‘Ill.”, one or all, as the case may require 
except in the case of species of casual or accidental occurrence, when 
the nature of their presence is indicated. The ‘List’ includes 570 species 
and subspecies, the nomenclature and arrangement being that of the 
A. O. U. Check-List; the species are numbered consecutively, the equiva- 
lent numbers of the A. O. U. Check-List being added in parenthesis. Of 
the 570 species listed, 104, or about 18 per cent, are of casual or accidental 
occurrence. Among the Water Birds (Grebes to Grouse), the casuals are 
largely (more than one half) stragglers from the Old World; the rest are 
about equally from the West and from the West Indies and other parts 
of the tropics. It may be noted that No. 431, Junco hyemalis oregonus, 
is doubtless the same as No. 432, junco h. shufeldti (= connectens).— 
J. A. A. 
Schalow’s the Published Writings of Anton Reichenow.” — This is a 
convenient list of the published writings of this eminent ornithologist, 
arranged chronologically, and numbering 288 titles. The list of titles is 
followed by a list of the new generic names, proposed by Dr. Reichenow, 
which number 38, of which 15 are proposed to replace earlier ‘ barbarous’ 
or improperly constructed names. Then follows a list of the species 
described as new, numbering 342, and finally a list of the species named 
in honor of Dr. Reichenow, 17 in number. Dr. Reichenow’s papers relate 
mainly to African birds, but include many of a more general character, 
and several special works of much importance. —J. A. A. 
Publications Received.— Anderson, Rudoph M. Annotated List of 
Birds of Winnebago and Hancock Counties, Iowa. 16mo, pp. 19. Forrest 
City, Ia., 1897. 
Bates, Frank A. The Game Birds of North America. 16mo, pp. 118. 
Boston, 1896. 
Barrett-Hamilton, G.E. H. The Great Auk (Alca zmpfennis) as an Irish 
Bird. (Irish Nat., May, 1896, pp. 121, 122.) 
Butler, A. W. Indiana: A Century of Changes in the Aspects of 
Nature. (Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci., V, pp. 31-42.) 
1A | List of the Birds | of | Eastern North America | By Charles B. Cory | 
For sale by | Bradley Whidden | 18 Arch St., Boston | Boston | 1896— 8vo, 
pp: 42. 
2 Anton Reichenow. Ein Verzeichniss seiner bisherigen Arbeiten. 1869- 
1896. 8vo, pp.29. Dec. 1896. 
