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suckers. A more detailed description is deferred to a es 
a together with a description of another specim 
The 2 Antelope and Deer of America ; by JOHN uae Eaton. 
3 426 pp., numerous cuts. New York, (Hurd & Houghton.) 
1877.—This is an excellent treatise on the ae antelope 
oa the various species of deer, moose and elk, of which eight 
species are recognized, The descriptions of the species are “de- 
tailed, and a large part of the book is devoted to their habits, 
domettiontiots hybridity, aliment, diseases, the chase, comparisons 
with congeners, and other kindred subjects. The illustrations are 
well executed | and characteristic. 
Tuomas G, Gen Vol. ii, sre: 399 pp. Philade ‘Iphia. Pub- 
lished by the eee 1877.—The second volume of this work, 
which has just reached us, is, like the first, replete with details in 
respect to the habits of ’pirds, and more especially as to their 
migrations, the time occupied in building nests and oe and 
the nature of food at different seasons of the year. In this consists 
its chief scientific value. The author has evidently spent ‘ great 
of this kind. 1e volumes include all the families above the 
waders, and the author proposes to complete the work in —— 
volume. 
4. Zoologische Minas toe by Dr. R. mpage and Dr. es 
- Nirscue. Bo — Theodor Fischer. oo ih ioe bee three 
the analyses of certain seeds aaekascalty used for human food, an 
two or three other papers by Prof. Storer which this new number 
