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Macareux arctique, Fratercula arctica (Lin.) Stepb., apres la saison 



des amours. Par le Docteur Louis Bureau. Extraii du Bulletin 



de la Societe Zoologique de France, 1877. 8vo. Paris, 1878. Pp. 



1-21, pll. iv., v. 



The remarkable changes which the bill and eyelids of the Common 

 Puffin undergo after the breeding season have been hitherto unknown 

 The author's exposition of the matter reveals a phenomenon as yet 

 unparalleled among birds . . The author concludes this remarkable 

 paper with some pertinent and suggestive observations on other species 

 of Fratercula and on Lunda clrrhata. -Elliott Coues, Bull. Nutt. Ornith. 

 Club, Vol. Ill, pp. 87-91, April 1878. 



Cory, Charles B. — A Naturalist in the Magdalen Islands ; giving a 



Description of the Islands, and List of the Birds taken there, with 



other Ornithological Notes. By Charles B. Cory. Illustrated 



from Sketches by the Author. Boston, 1878. Small 4to. Part 



II., Catalogue of Birds taken or observed in the Magdalen 



Islands, with Notes regarding those found breeding, etc., etc. 



Pp. 33-83. 



In a sumptuous little quarto Mr. C. B. Cory has given an account 

 of a summer trip to the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 

 . . . .Part I. consists of a general account of the Islands. . . and direc- 

 tions how to reach the Magdalen group, etc. Part II. gives a list of 

 one hundred and nine species observed and taken by the author . . 

 The annotations relate mainly to the habits and relative abundance of 



the species — J. A. A., Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, Vol. IV., p. 171, July, 



1879. 



Coues, Elliott. — Birds of the Colorado Valley. A Repository of 

 Scientific and Popular Information concerning North American 

 Ornithology. By Elliott Coues. Part First. Passeres to Lani- 

 ida3. Bibliographical Appendix. Seventy illustrations (wood- 

 cuts). 8vo. Pp. xvi., 807. Washington: Government Printing 

 Office, 1878. "Miscellaneous Publications, No. 11," of the 

 United States Geological Survey of the Territories, F. V. Hayden, 

 U. S. Geologist-in- Charge. 



In point of completeness, mode of execution, and general useful- 

 ness, the bibliography here under notice far excels any natural history 

 bibliography known to us, and deserves to rank with the best bibliog- 

 raphies of any department of literature, and may well serve as a model 

 for future workers in similar fields. . . .As regards the general work, or 

 the "Birds of the Colorado Valley" as a whole, no more important 

 contribution to the subject of North American Ornithology than this 

 promises to be has for a long time appeared, and none covering all 

 points of the field here taken ;. . . .— -J. A. A., Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, 

 Vol. IV., pp. 54-57, January, 1879. 



Coues, Elliott. — Field Notes on Birds observed in Dakota and Mon- 

 tana along the Forty-ninth Parallel during the Seasons of 1873 and 

 1874. By Dr. Elliott Coues, U. S. A., late Surgeon and Naturalist 



