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RECENT LITERATURE. 



Elliot's Shore Birds, 2d Ed. — -Our extended notice of this work (Auk, 

 Jan. 1S96, pp. 64-66) leaves little to be said now, bejond renewing our 

 felicitations on the success which Mr. Elliot's lending a hand to popular- 

 ize ornithology has achie\ed, as witnessed by the call for another edition 

 in a year from original date of publication. The second edition remains 

 substantially the same as the first, though, as stated by the author in his 

 new preface, "the letter press has been carefully examined and the few- 

 typographical errors that m.ay have existed in the first edition have been 

 corrected. The kindly criticism, also, of my colleagues on these matters 

 has been of considerable assistance. In the Appendix the Key to the 

 Families has been slightly rearranged, but not changing in any way the 

 definitions." The omnipresence if not omnipotence of the printer's devil 

 is displaced in this new preface, which leaves the misprints Squaturola 

 and Helodromus to be corrected in the next edition of this admirable work, 

 which we expect to see in due course. — E. C. 



Elliot's Gallinaceous Game Birds of North America.' — Seldom are 

 the original and next edition of a book on birds published so almost sim- 

 ultaneously as to reach an active reviewer's desk together, but such is the 

 result of a happy conjunction of authorial and publicational ability in the 

 present instance. We understand that the first edition was exhausted in 

 a month; the second immediately appeared. We believe it is identical, 

 except in the appearance of the explaining words on the title-page, there 

 having hardly been time for sandpapering, even had any places needing 

 that process been observed. The plain form of the book is well made in 

 all its appointments, presenting a very attractive appearance, like most 

 of Mr. F. P. Harper's issues; the large paper copies are sumptuous, 

 almost to be st3'led luxurious. 



' The I Gallinaceous | Game Birds | of | North America | including the Par- 

 tridges, Grouse, Ptarmigan, | and Wild Turkeys ; with accounts of their dis- | 

 persion, habits, nesting, etc., and full descrip- | tions of the plumage of both 

 adult and young, to- | gather with their popular and scientific names. | A book 

 written both for those who love to seek these birds afield with | dog and gun, 

 as well as those who may only desire to learn the | ways of such attractive 

 creatures in their haunts | By | Daniel Giraud Elliot, F. R. S.E., etc. | [Etc. 

 5 lines of titles.] | With forty-six plates j New York | Francis P. Harper | 

 1S97 I — I vol., 100 large-paper copies, numbered and signed by author, roy. 

 8vo, others Svo., both with rubricated title, ist and 2nd eds. pub. nearly 

 together, Oct. and Nov., 1897; pp. i-xviii, 19-220, pll. 1-46, and colored charts 

 inside back cover. 



