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intended to represent, nor lend artistic charm to the page, since they 
are equally vile, whether meant for pictures only or for ornithological 
drawings. As startling examples, we may mention the figures on 
PP- 737, 760, 817, and 997, labeled, respectively, Golden Plover, 
Passenger Pigeon, Snowy Owl, and Tree Swallow. It is also to be re- 
gretted that any of the woodcuts from Brehm’s Zhierleben (pp. 606, 
1oo1) should still be used in an American book, after all that has 
been written about them. Otherwise the book, which has several 
interesting introductory chapters and ‘an exhaustive bibliography, is 
gotten up very well and takes a high rank among similar works. 
LEONHARD STEJNEGER. 
Trouessart’s Catalogue of Mammals, Living and Extinct.’ — 
Mammalogists owe to Dr. Trouessart a large debt of gratitude for his 
Catalogue of Recent and Extinct Mammals, the publication of which 
is now nearing completion, four of the five fasciculi having already 
appeared. Considering the magnitude and difficulties of the task, 
the work is well done; we detect few omissions, and the number 
of clerical and typographical errors is not greater than is natural 
to expect in a work of this character. The classification followed is 
essentially that of Flower and Lydekker’s “ Introduction to the Study 
of Mammals,” but the order of treatment is reversed, Dr. Trouessart 
beginning with the Primates and ending with the Monotremes. 
No one can be expected to have expert knowledge of all the 
varied forms of even the class mammalia in this period of rapid 
advance in the discovery of new forms and of the relationships of 
hitherto obscurely known types. As the work before us is essen- 
tially bibliographical, serving as a systematic index to the species, 
genera, and higher groups of the mammalia, a few slips here and 
there in the allocation of species and subspecies, genera and sub- 
genera, can readily be overlooked in view of the utility of this 
immense undertaking. The specialist will not be misled by the 
occasional lapses he may detect in the case of groups he has especially 
investigated, and they can hardly detract from the general useful- 
ness and convenience of a work which will prove an enduring monu- 
ment to the patience, industry, and scientific acumen of its author. 
1 Catalogus Mammalium tam Viventium quam fossilium a Doctore E. i 
Trouessart, Parisiis. Nova Editio (Prima completa). Berolini: R. Friedländer 
& Sohn, 8vo. Fasc. i, Primates, Prosimiæ, Chiroptera, Insectivora, pp. 1-218, 
ia, Rodentia, pp. 219-452, 1897; Fasc. iii, 
1897; Fasc. ii, Carnivora, Pinnipedi 
Rodentia, pp. 453-664, 1897; Fasc. iv, Tillodontia et Ungulata, Pp. 665-998, 
