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Catalogue of Canadian Birds. Part III. 

 Including the Order Passeres after the 

 Icteridae. By John Macoun. Geological 

 Survey of Canada, Ottawa. 1904. Pages 

 i-iv; 4.15-733; i-xxiii. 



The present volume completes this im- 

 portant work, though the author remarks 

 that "much additional information regard- 

 ing the birds included in the first two parts 

 has come to my hands; and this will, in the 

 near future, be published in the form of an 

 addendum to the complete catalogue." 



Reference to our notices of the preceding 

 parts of this memoir will indicate its nature 

 and scope. More space is allotted each 

 «pecies in the present part, with a corre- 

 sponding increase in the amount of informa- 

 tion given. This is especially true, we are 

 glad to say, of that portion of the arinota- 

 tions relating to nesting habits. 



The data given are carefully accredited 

 to their respective sources, but the place at 

 which certain observations were made is not 

 always stated. For example, Mr. J. 

 Hughes-Samuel's record of the occurrence 

 of Kirtiand's Warbler leaves one in doubt 

 as to the locality where the bird was found. 

 Again MS. notes here published for the first 

 time are not distinguished from those which 

 have already appeared. Both these defects 

 could be remedied in a bibliography, which 

 we trust will be included in the proposed 

 addendum. — F. M. C. 



Distribution and Migration of North 

 American Warblers. By W. W. 

 Cooke. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, 

 Division of Biological Survey, Bull. No. 

 18. Washington, 1904. 8vo; pages 142. 



This work is based primarily on the MS. 

 reports of the numerous observers, who for 

 years have been contributing migration 

 records to the Biological Survey; but Pro- 

 fessor Cooke has also had access to all other 

 available sources of information, including 

 the leading collections of this country. His 

 publication, therefore, adequately represents 

 the existing knowledge of the subject to 

 which it relates. 



It treats of ' Routes of Migration,' 'South- 

 ernmost Extension of Winter Ranges of 

 Warblers of Eastern North America,' and, 

 in a 'Systematic Report,' of the general dis- 

 tribution and migration. Particular atten- 

 tion has been paid to routes of migration 

 after the species leaves the United States, 

 and here Professor Cooke works in a practi- 

 cally untouched field and brings together 

 much information which tends to show that 

 many of our current beliefs in regard to 

 routes of migration have no foundation in 

 fact. 



In determining the winter homes of our 

 Warblers, Professor Cooke again sheds light 

 where before there was comparative dark- 

 ness, and his tabulation of Warblers accord- 

 ing to their winter distribution furnishes an 

 interesting summary of the results obtained. 



The Systematic Report gives the breed- 

 ing range and winter range, together with 

 spring and fall migration records, for the 

 fifty- nine species and nineteen subspecies 

 of North American Warblers. Professor 

 Cooke is to be congratulated on the thor- 

 ough manner in which he has completed a 

 work which, for an indefinite period, will 

 remain the standard authority on the jour- 

 neys of the Mniotiltidae. — F. M. C. 



The Birds of Middle and North Amer- 

 ica. Part III. By Robert Ridgway. 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 50; 8vo. 

 Pages XX -j- 801 ; plates xix. Washing- 

 ton, 1904. 



The families treated in the third part of 

 this great work, with the number of species 

 and subspecies contained in each, are as 

 follows: Wagtails and Pipits, 8; Swal- 

 lows, 32; Waxwings, 2; Silky Flycatchers, 

 5; Palm Chats, 2; Vireos, 75; Shrikes, 8; 

 Crows and Jays, 81 ; Titmice, 36 ; Nut- 

 hatches, 10 ; Creepers, 6 ; Wrens, 135 ; 

 Dippers, 3 ; Wren-tits, 4; Warblers (Syl- 

 viidse) , 22. 



Mr. Ridgway remarks that the three vol- 

 umes which have now been published de- 

 scribe about 1,250 species and subspecies, 



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