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and the plates, the majority copied from 
Audubon and Wilson, depicting 102 
species, should aid in identification. The 
comprehensive bibliography is also an 
important feature. 
Two short introductory chapters treat 
of ‘The Destruction and Protection of our 
Birds,’ and ‘Distribution and Migra- 
tion.’ In the latter, the species are divided 
into Residents, Summer Residents, Winter 
Visitants, Transient Visitants and Irregu- 
lar or Accidental Visitants. The last mis- 
cellaneous assemblage is subdivided into 
five groups. While the difficulty of satis- 
factorily arranging these irregular visi- 
tants is acknowledged, we cannot help 
thinking that the line between Winter 
Visitants and Irregular Visitants from the 
north in Winter has not been drawn at 
the best point. The Redpoll, Lapland 
Longspur and Snow Bunting seem better 
placed with the Pine Grosbeak and White- 
winged Crossbill than with such unfailingly 
regular winter residents as the Tree Spar- 
row and the Junco. And weshould scarcely 
expect to find the Pileated Woodpecker 
and Cerulean Warbler among “Irregular 
Visitants from the South in Summer.” 
The annotations are, in the main, ade- 
quate and satisfactory; but, in a few cases, 
the abundance is stated in a general way, 
that by no means applies to the state as 
a whole. For instance, among the Hawks, 
the Red-tail is given as a “‘common resi- 
dent,” though there are considerable 
areas from which it is almost or wholly 
absent in the breeding-season. Again, 
the Broad-winged Hawk: is said to be a less 
common breeder than the Red-shouldered, 
while, as a matter of fact, it occupies 
certain sections to the exclusion of its 
congener, the habitats of the two being 
complementary. By failure to secure all 
available records, many of the scarcer 
transients are made to appear rarer than 
they actually are. Thus, but one spring 
record is given for Lincoln’s Sparrow, 
while, some years ago, the writer observed 
as many as seven or eight during one 
spring migration. 
There is a pleasing freedom from typo- 
graphical errors, and the only slips ob- 
Lore 
served in the scientific mames are the 
inadvertent use of Tachybaptus for the 
Pied-billed Grebe; of colchicus, instead of 
torquatus, as the specific name of the Ring- 
necked Pheasant, and of Jeucobronchialis for 
Vermivora lawrencet. The proper names 
of Krom and Zerega are misspelled through- 
out the work. 
In regard to the faunal relationships of 
New Jersey, we find that the greater part 
of the state belongs to the Carolinian zone, 
the hilly northern portion being mainly 
Alleghanian. There is, at most, only a 
feeble indication of a Canadian element 
in the presence of a few Brown Creepers, 
Solitary Vireos and Canadian and Black- 
throated Blue Warblers as breeders in the 
most elevated portions, but none of these 
are typically Canadian species. 
The total number of species and sub- 
species accredited to the state, including 
accidental visitants, extinct species, and a 
few of somewhat doubtful occurrence, is 
356. Of these, 137 are breeders. Of 
species extinct within the state, there are 
five given in the introduction, and to these 
should be added the Labrador Duck. A 
number of others that formerly nested 
in numbers along the coast might properly 
have been placed in this category, since 
they now occur only as the rarest strag- 
glers. Among these are the Avocet, Stilt, 
Wilson’s Plover, Oystercatcher, Gull- 
billed Tern, Least Tern and Black Skim- 
mer. Indeed of the once varied and 
abundant summer bird-life of the New 
Jersey beaches and marshes, the Clapper 
Rails, a few Common Terns, and two 
colonies of Laughing Gulls, are about all 
that remain. 
Among the few song birds, once more 
or less abundant but now practically un- 
known in the state, the Dickcissel, Mock- 
ingbird and Summer Tanager are the best, 
if not the only examples.—W. DEW. M. 
REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF THE BUREAU 
OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY FOR 1909. By 
C. Hart Merriam. From the Annual 
Reports of the Department of Agricul- 
ture: Washington, 1909, pp. I-24. 
The increase in scope and importance 
of the work of the Bureau of Biological 
