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VOL. IV FEBRUARY. 1904. NO. 2 



Key to North American Birds, by Elliot Coues, A. M., M. D., Ph. D. 

 Dana Estes and Company, 1903)2 vols. $10.00. At last this great work, 

 early publication of which has been announced at frequent intervals 

 during the past two years, is off the press, being formally published on 

 December 17th, within a few days of four years after the death of its- 

 distinguished author, Dr. Elliot Coues. This, the fifth edition, em- 

 bodies all the salient features of the preceding edition with many 

 additions to the text, which fact together with the addition of numer- 

 ous illustrations made it necessary to publish the work in two volumes, 

 which combined include about 1200 pages. In regard to the main body 

 of the work it is unnecessary to make comment, as it has, as embodied 

 in the fourth edition been universally known for years as one of the 

 standard works on the subject. The present edition will remain for 

 many years as a crowning tribute to the memory of a talented author. 

 The only opportunities which the new work offers for adverse comment 

 are in the illustrations, many of which are decidedly crude, and in the 

 mechanical make-up, in which latter respect it is not up to the standard 

 of the fourth edition, neither the paper nor the printing being of a qual- 

 ity to bring out a half tone as it should be. 



