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devoted to illustrating the nests of birds. Part II contains plates of the 
nests and eggs or nests and young of the Long-tailed Tit (two plates ), 
Black-headed Gull, Little Grebe (two plates), Golden Plover, Lapwing 
(two plates), Herring Gull, Greenshank. In Part IV, nests of the follow- 
ing species are figured: Woodcock, Oyster-catcher (two plates), Tree 
Pipit, Reed Bunting, Ringed Plover (two plates), Little Tern (two 
plates), Jackdaw. — F. M. C. 
Birds of Wellesley.!— The author states that this list “is designed 
especially for the use of students in Wellesley College, and others 
interested in the bird-life of Wellesley and surrounding towns, its chief 
purpose being to give an approximately correct idea of the bird-life of the 
district, and serve as a convenient pocket guide to observations,” and it is 
admirably adapted to meet this end. It is well summarized as containing 
“75 water-birds and 169 land-birds, in all 244 species and varieties. Of 
these about 23 are visitors from the coast, and about 36 are accidental 
wanderers from various points of the compass, chiefly from the West 
and South. Of the 185 species remaining, 95 land-birds and 20 water- 
birds are fairly common, and should be met with by an ordinary observer 
in the course of a year, while the remaining 70 are either scarce or 
irregular in distribution, and are unlikely to be seen except by special 
effort or good fortune.” 
Each species is annotated with reference to its time and manner of 
occurrence, haunts, and in the case of breeding species, location of nests, 
and there are also cross-references to text-books treating of the birds of 
the same region. 
While lists of this kind may not have sufficient value to deserve publi- 
cation in an ornithological magazine or the proceedings of a natural 
history society, their value to local bird-students is undoubted, and we 
trust Mr. Morse’s excellent list may be followed by others of similar 
character throughout the country. —F. M. C. 
Nehrling’s Birds: Vol. II.2— Previous notices? of this interesting 
work have given its scope and character so fully that the reviewer in the 
present instance has little to do beyond attesting the fidelity with which 
the promise of earlier portions has been kept to the end, and congrat- 
1 Annotated List of Birds of Wellesley and Vicinity, Comprising the Land- 
birds and most of the Inland Water-fowl of Eastern Massachusetts. By 
Albert Pitts Morse, Curator of the Zodlogical Museum, Wellesley College. 
Published by the Author: Wellesley, Mass., 1897. 16mo, pp. 56, one plate. 
2 Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty, being. . . etc. By Henry Nehrling. 
Vol II. Milwaukee: George Brumder. 1896. Large 4to or sm. folio, title- 
leaf and pp. 1-452, pll. col’d xix-xxxvi. (Pub. in Parts, 1894-96.) 
3 Auk, Jan. 1890, p. 70; Apr. 1894, pp. 160, 161. 
