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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX. 1874-1875 701) 



1874-78. Jasper, T.— Continued. 



29,1875; xvi, xvii, Sept. 18, 1875 ; xviii,xix, Jan. 26,1876; x:x,xxi, 

 Apr. 20, 1876 ; xxii, xxiii, July 26, 1876 ; xxiv, xxv, Oct. 7, 1876 ; xxvi, 

 xxvii, Jan, 3, 1877; xxviii, xxix, May 12,1877; xxx, xxxi, Aug. 6, 

 1877; xxxii,xxxiii, Nov, 5, 1877; xxxiv, xxxv. Mar. 8, 1878; xxxvi, 

 xxxvii, June 8, 1878 ; xxxviii, xxxix, Sept. 23, 1878 ; xl, announced for 

 Oct., 1878; each part consisting of 3 colored and 1 flat-tinted plate, 

 and 8 pages (or 4 folios) of text ; plates in 2 series, and text in 2 

 sets of pagination ; the whole designed to form 2 vols. 



The wort is really two works in one, each of them to form a separate volume. 

 One set of plates, colored, nambered in Koman, I-CXX? (or I-CXIX?) is 

 accompanied by tlie general letter-press, treating of the North American birds 

 represented on these plates. The other set of plates, Arabic Nos., 1-40, flat- 

 tinted, has also its letter-press, separately paged. Three of the colored plates 

 and their text and one of the plain plates and its text form together each 

 number. I cannot give the exact pagination, etc., as the work is not finished, 

 and the above is only the cover-title, moreover modified in some respects with 

 saccessive parts; the permanent title may he literally difiierent again; title- 

 pages, indexes, frontispieces, etc., are anDounced for the concluding number. 



On its first appearance, this work was promptly set upon by the critics, with 

 such effect that it has scarcely been recognized, and has seldom, if ever, been 

 cited by the "regular " ornithologists. But the publication has nevertheless stead- 

 ily progressed to a successful conclusion, and now forms a really notable work, 

 open to much less serious objections than at first seemed imminent, and worthy 

 of all proper consideration. As a business enterprise, the affair has apparently 

 been a success; five "editions" (issues of additional impressions) bave been 

 called for, showing that the work answers th.e popular demand. It seems better 

 suited to the tastes and wants of the populace than any other ornithological 

 work which has ever appeared in this country, though it will never be conceded 

 to have any weight or authority with ornithologists. Of the illustrations, much 

 might be said according to the perspective in which we choose to regard them ; 

 the truest perspective is perhaps the price at which they are issued— four of 

 them, 12 X IS inches, with 8 pp. of text, for a dollar. They maintain the same 

 character throughout the series. The text, on the contrary, has steadily im- 

 proved from the first; it consists of a general account of the objects delineated, 

 beginning usually with a few original words, and for the rest consisting of copi- 

 ous extracts from authors, from Wilsoo, Audubon, and Nuttall to those of to-day. 

 This is the Birds of North America part ; the other part of the work, separately 

 paged, and with its 40 plain plates, is a general treatise on ornithology, the 

 classification, etc., of which is modelled after Brehm j it is less satisfactory than 

 the main part of the work. 



1875. Abbott, C. C. The Migration of inland Birds. < Bod and Gun, vi, 

 July 10, 1375, p. 230 ; and July 17, p. 243. 

 Reprinted from Pop. Sd. Monthly. 



1875. "Alaska." [H. W. Elliott.] Disappearance of certain song-birds. 

 < Rod and Gun, vi, May 15, 1875, p. 97. 



1875. A[llen], J. A. Dr. Coues's Birds of the Northwest, < Am. Nat, ix, No. 

 8, Aug., 1875, pp. 466-468. 



1875. Allen, J, A. Coues's Birds of the Northwest. < Atlantic Monthlyj 

 xxxvi, Sept., 1875, pp. 365-368. 

 Review of the work. 



1875. Allen, J. A. *' Birds of the Northwest." < Rod and Gun, vi. May 22, 

 1875, p. 119. 



Protesting against the position taken by the reviewer of the work, torn, dt, p. 

 39, in regard to the inside history of the publication. The editor ("W". F. Parker) 

 defends the previous criticism in a note appended to the letter. 



