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Haunts," " How Cage Birds are Caught: A Day on Brighton Downs," 

 "The Art of Duck-Decoying," "People We have Met," and "Our 

 Methods of Photography." There is no padding, nor one poor or unin- 

 teresting picture, and while the birds mentioned are for the most part 

 strangers to American readers, we commend the book and its author's 

 and illustrator's methods as stimulating evidences of the results which 

 may be obtained in a previously well-worked field by diligent, careful 

 observation and persistent, patient effort. — F. M. C. 



Publications Received. — Bangs, Outram. On Some Birds from Pueblo 

 Viejo, Colombia. (Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XII, 1898. pp. 157-160.) 



Blanford, W. T. The Fauna of British India. Birds, Vol. IV. 8vo, 

 London, Calcutta, Bombay and Berlin, 1S98 



Butler, Amos W. The Birds of Indiana. (Rep. State Geologist for 

 1897, pp. 515-1187.) 



Christie, Miller. Rockall. (Scottish Geogr. Mag., Aug. 189S, pp. 393- 



Davie, Oliver. Nests and Eggs of North American Birds. Fifth 

 edition. Svo, Columbus, 1898. 



Eastman, C R. On Remains of Struthiolithus chefsone?ists from 

 Northern China, with Remarks on the Distribution of Struthious Birds. 

 (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool, Vol. XXXII, No. 7, Aug. 1898.) 



Forbush, E. H. Nature's Forresters. (Massachusetts Crop Report 

 for the month of May, 1S98, pp. 27-40.) 



Gurney, J. H. (i) The Economy of the Cuckoo [Ciiculus ca^wncs). 

 (Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Soc, Vol. VI, pp. 365-384.) (2) 

 The New Zealand Owl [Sceloglaux albifacies Gray) in captivity. {Ibid. 

 pp. 154-158.) (3) The Tendency in Birds to resemble Other Species, 

 {Ibid., pp. 240-244.) (4) Ornithological Record for Norfolk for 1896. 

 (Zoologist, March, 1897, pp. 121-138.) 



Hose, Charles. On the Avifauna of Mount Dulit and the Baram Dis 

 trict in the Territory of Sarawak. (Ibis, July, 1893, pp. 381-422, pU. x, xi.) 



Kearton, Richard. With Nature and a Camera. Svo. London, Paris 

 and Melbourne, 1898. 



Lee, Oswin A. J. Among British Birds in their Nesting Haunts. 

 Folio, pt. xii, 1898. 



Sharpe, R. Bowdler. (i) Descriptions of fourteen new Species of 

 Birds discovered by Mr. F. J. Jackson in Eastern Africa. (Ibis, Jan. 1891, 

 pp. 117-122.) (2) Bornean Notes; Nos. II and III. (Ibis, July and Oct. 

 1894.) (3) On the Birds of Zululand, founded on Collections made by 

 Messrs. R. P. and J. D. S. Woodward. Parts I and II. (Ibis, July and 

 Oct., 1897.) (4) On a Collection of Birds from Witu, British East Africa. 

 By F. J. Jackson, with notes by R. Bowdler Sharpe. (Ibis, Jan., 1898.) 

 (5) On a Collection of Birds made by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith during 

 his recent Expedition in Western Somaliland. (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 

 1895, pp. 457-520, pll. XXVII, XXVIIL) 



