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prises two hundred and seventy pages and treats the whole order 



Oscines. . . .The claims of each species to be considered a member of the 

 New England Fauna are critically examined. . . .the design being to give 

 a thoroughly reliable list of the Birds, with an account of the leading 

 facts in the life-history of each species. The plan of the work includes 

 brief descriptions of the birds themselves, enabling one to identify any 

 specimen .To say that the book is exceedingly well-written would be 

 doing it scant justice. Dr. Coues's brilliant talents in this respect are 

 already well known, but we have perhaps never had so striking a proof 



of them as is afforded by the present volume Mr. Stearns may be 



congratulated on his wise choice of an editor.- W. B., Bull. Null Ornith. 

 Clnb, Vol. VI., pp. 236-240, October, 1881. 



1882. 



Bicknell, Eugene Pintard. — A Review of the Summer Birds of a 

 part of The Catskill Mountains, with prefatory remarks on the 

 faunal and floral features of the region. By Eugene Pintard 

 Bicknell. Transactions of the Linncean Society of New York. 

 Vol. L, pp. 113-168, December, 1882. 



is based on observations made " during brief explorations of 



the more southern Catskills in three successive years, from June 6-15, 

 1880; 12-18, 1881; 24-27, 18*2. . . . Twenty-five of the total fifty-six 



pages are devoted to prefatory remarks Mr. Bicknell evidently has 



a penchant for the analysis and comparison of faunas, and his remarks 

 iu the present connection are decidedly interesting . . The list proper 

 includes eighty-nine species and varieties. It is very fully annotated. 

 ....— W. B., Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, Vol. VIII., p. 53, January, 1883. 



Blasius, Rudolph. — V. Jahresbericht (1880) des Ausschlusses fiir 

 Beobachtungs-stationen der Vogel Deutschlands. Journal fiir 

 Ornithologie, XXX Jahrg., Heft I, Jan., 1882, pp. 18-110. 



The fifth annual report of the German observers for the year 1880 

 .... is presented in the form of au annotated list of 280 species, com- 

 piled from the reports of the various observers The notes relate to 



nesting of many of the species, as well as to their migrations There 



are . . . reports from no less than 36 stations, and the resume of the obser- 

 vations taken forms a paper of great interest and value. — J. A. A., Bull. 

 Nutt. Ornith. Club, Vol. VIII., pp. 229, 230, October, 1883. 



Brown, Nathan Clifford. — A Catalogue of the Birds known to occur 

 in the vicinity of Portland, Me. [etc. ] By Nathan Clifford 

 Brown. Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., Dec. 4, 1882. 



This excellent local list is stated to be prepared from notes sys- 

 tematically taken during the past twelve years, and to contain the 

 names of scarcely any species which have not passed under the author's 

 personal observation. Its reliability is therefore evident. The number 

 of species given is 250. . . .The annotations, though not extensive, are to 

 the point and seem judiciously adapted to convey a fair idea of the part 

 each species plays in the composition of the Avifauna. .. — E. C, 

 Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, Vol. VIII., pp. 112, 113, April, 1883. 



