THE OSPREY. 17 



The minor reports, including ornithology, have been sufficiently noticed by 

 Mr. Boulger. His greatest ornithological work, covering the same region, 

 was contributed to the Fauna Boreali-Americana of which he was the editor. 

 This was the second of the series, the one simply entitled "Birds" by William 

 Swainson and John Richardson and published in 1831. 



Quite a full account of tl.is volume has been already published in the 

 OsPREY (v, pp. 10, 37-39) and to that we refer for information as to the 

 manner in which Richardson collected the material for the work and the 

 character of the co-operation of the two authors. We need only repeat 

 here that Swainson testified that "the whole of the descriptions, and nearly all 

 the synonymes, are entirely from the pen of Dr. Richardson," and that they 

 are ''models of perfection," which opinion re-echoed that of an earlier writer. 



Five years after the publication of the volume on birds, and when be had 

 completed the series of the Fauna Boreali- America, he presented a "report on 

 North American Zoology" to the British Association for the advancement of 

 science which was published in the volume for 1836, (p, 121-124). 



In 1843, he published an inconsiderable note on the -'Geographical Distri- 

 bution of some American Birds" in the Annals of Natural History (xi, p. 

 484). It was merely a list of a dozen species collected at "Fort Simpson 

 on the Mackenzie in latitude 62° 11' N" and was interesting in "showing that 

 several of the species have a higher range than [had previously] been recorded." 



His later contributions related almost entirely to fishes. 



REVIEWS. 



Animals of the Past. | By | Frederic A. Lucas | Curator of the Divi- 

 sion of Comparative Anatomy, | United States NationalMuseum — Fully Illus- 

 trated I New York | McClure, Phillips & Co. | 1901. [12mo. xxi + 258 p.— 

 Price $2.] 



This excellent volume is one of a series entitled "Science for Everybody" 

 and is devoted to the consideration of those extinct animals which have already 

 excited more or less popular interest. In ten chapters, different groups or 

 species are considered and two of them are given up to the exposition of fossil 

 birds. 



In the fifth chapter, "Birds of Old" (p. 70-89), are described, and especially 

 those that had true teeth, as the famous Jurassic Archwopteryx and the Btill 

 better known cretaceous Hesperornis. Mr. Lucas has supplemented the oste- 

 ological details respecting Hesperornis given by Professor Marsh with fresh 

 information respecting its feathers, its limbs and its probable pose and habits. 



