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pearance with the new year. The 

 first issue of Vol. i, contains 

 thirty-six pages of very interest- 

 ing and instructive reading mat- 

 ter. It is edited by J. Hobart 

 Egbert of Holyoke, Mass. 



Publications Received. 



Barrows, Walter B., and E. A. 

 Schwarz. "The Common Crow 

 of the United States." Bull. No. 

 6, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, 

 1895, PP- 1-98, I pl- 2 figs. 



Beal, F. E. L. "The Crow 

 Blackbirds and Their Food." Re- 

 printed from the Yearbook of the 

 U. S. Dept. of Agriculture for 

 1894. Pp. 233-248, figs. I. 



Beal, F. E. L. "Preliminary 

 Report on the Food of Wood- 

 peckers." Bull. No. 7. U. S. 

 Dept. of Agriculture, 1895, PP- 

 1-33, I pi, 3 fiRS. 



Burns, Frank L. "The Amer- 

 ican Crow, (corvus americanus) 

 with special reference to its nest 

 and eggs." Bull. No. 5, Wil- 

 son's Orn. Chap, of Agassiz 

 Assn., 1895, PP- 1-41- 



Fisher, A. K. "Hawks and Owls 

 from the Standpoint of the Farm- 

 er." Reprinted from the Year- 

 book of the U. S. Dept. of Agri- 

 culture for 1894. Pp. 215-232, 

 pi. 3, figs. 3. 



Jones, Lynds. "Minotiltidae." 

 Bull. No. 4, Wilson Orni. Chap, 

 of Agassiz Assn., 1895, PP- 1-22. 



Lucas, F. A. "The Tongues 

 of Woodpeckers." Bull. No. 7, 

 U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1895. 

 Pp. 35-41, pi. 3. 



"The A. O. U. Check-list of 

 North American Birds." Second 

 and revised edition. Issued by 

 the American Ornithologists' 

 Union, 1895. Pp- '-372, I-XII, 

 8vo, cloth. 



"TheNidologist." Vol. 3, No. 

 4. Dec. 1895. 



"Popular Science News." Vol. 

 30, No. I. January, 1896. 



"The Oologist," Vol. 12, No. 

 12. December, 1895. 



"Oregon Naturalist," Vol. 3, 

 No. I. January, 1896. 



"Gameland." Vol. 8, No. i. 

 December, 1895. 



"The American Zoologist and 

 Home Journal of Science." Vol. 

 I, No. I. 



"Game and Shooting." Vol. 

 I, No. II. 



"The Linnean Fern Bulletin." 

 Vol. 4, No. I, January 1896. 



For the lack of space, we can- 

 not give further mention of pub- 

 lications received. In our next 

 issue we shall give more space to 

 this department. 



