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visitants, with concise and precise statement of the part each 
plays in the bird fauna. These classes are found to embrace two 
hundred and sixty species, out of a total of three hundred and 
ninety-five recognized as British; the remaining one hundred and 
thirty-five, or rather more than one-third, being considered as 
« rare or accidental visitants.” To these last, Part II of the work, 
no inconsiderable portion of the whole, is devoted, and we partic- 
ularly admire the way these stragglers are handled. While the 
author is lavish of references throughout the work, citing his 
authority as a rule for all special occurrences, this portion of the 
volume is almost entirely composed of references to recorded cases 
of capture or observance of the species noted. For instance, 
twenty-four observed occurrences of the snowy owl are noted, 
each accompanied by a citation of the published record. Another 
portion of the work gives a nominal list of British birds, in which 
the indigenous species and the stragglers are printed in parallel 
columns. We do not see how more information of the sort that 
the author volunteers to supply could be brought within the same 
compass, nor what more convenient, and consequently useful, 
method could have been devised for holding up the the whole sub- 
ject in the strongest light. 
For ourselves, we are naturally most interested in the cases of 
those North American birds which enter the list as stragglers.* 
The author enumerates over forty of them, a few however with 
doubt. “ It is extremely difficult to believe,” he continues, “‘ that 
= non-aquatic species in this list have journeyed across the ~ 
* Following is the list, which some one without Dr. Harting’s book at hand may find 
useful. observation or capture, 
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s, Totanus. feet [each ?] eee T. solitarius (1), Actiturus Bartramius (4), T' af 
atonal cens (15), Tringoides macu s (16), Tringa maculata 6), T. Bonapartii (9), T. 
pusilla [of rh (2), eae aptes (1); Macrohamphus griseus (15), Nu 
afore 4), Botaurus peony deca ), Crex Ca roina (1), Cygnus mT (1), C. buc- 
cinator (1), Anser albatus (1), Anas Americana Ari Edemia 
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a wish that some of the ‘Continental qu uotations ae rene kids, notably those 
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