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the best condition for the table, and a baked black bass of four t 
five pounds, in September, with every appropriate condiment, is 
rich dish, which all who taste will fully appreciate. — Fifth Repo 
of the Massachusetts Commissioners of Fisheries, 1871. 
REVIEWS. 
Procress or Americas Ornrrno.ocy. — Mr. Allen’s* lates y 
and in all respects his most valuable, memoir embraces several 
distinct essays, for which the Mammals + and Winter Birds 
Florida seem to furnish merely the occasion, and are, at any 
overshadowed by the importance of the general questions 
cussed. He has worked long and faithfully upon a subject 
broad interest, and his labors will receive attention, no less f 
those who differ from him, than those whom he convinces. St 
ing squarely opposed to the great majority of ornitholog 
his arguments must be refuted, or his position endorsed. In 
present character of unwilling critic, we endeavor to speak in 
same earnest spirit of inquiry that tempers Mr. Allen’s page; 
may possibly succeed in showing how trivial is the real poin 
issue between Mr. Allen and those of us from whom he appe 
differ so widely. 
Mr. Allen’s lists and field notes, which result from 
months investigation, are collated with Mr. Maynard’s and 
n’s, and “ may be considered as equivalent collec 
to the labors of a single observer constantly in the field fe 
least four or five winters.” (p. 161.) They are properly pre 
with a sketch of the physical features of the country, from 
* On the Mammals and Winter Birds Florida, with an examination of 
Amecice, By 3-A Ieee Meee aay ls: 
ica. By J. A, i Co 
No. 3 161-451. pla. 4-8. 1871. A T 
Mam: ve species, among them the 
atus, “ still quite common in the Indian River,” and a large bat, probably 
egatermatide new to but unfortunately not identified. 
, the conspicnons in the 
to 
would not admit U. Americanus to be 
