514 Recent Literature. [ August, 
at the head of the class. It is also unfortunate that the “ orders” 
of birds are perpetuated, even in a popular work, since it is 
doubtful whether they should rank higher than sub- order 
The singing birds (Passeres) are treated with great fallos of 
detail, and as these form the larger proportion of our native birds, 
‘while the illustrations are abundant and beautiful, the two vol- 
umes containing 346 woodcuts, many of them of life size, and 
thirty-seven full-page engravings, mostly drawn by Mitzel, 
Kretschmer and others.. They are fully up to the standard of 
those in the earlier volumes of the series, to which we have 
called attention. 
The birds will be completed in a third volume. Two additional 
volumes will be devoted to fishes, finishing the series of ten vol- 
umes announced by the publisher, and which will, without doubt, 
be issued during the coming year. 
SMITH’s STALK-EYED CRUSTACEA OF THE ATLANTIC Coast. 
—This paper is based on the collections of the U. S. Fish Com- 
mission, and is of great value. In it are enumerated seventy-nine 
species of decapod Crustacea, which are or have been found in 
the limits named. Many so-called species are here for the first 
time united, a feature which agrees perfectly with the reviewer's 
convictions, These seventy-nine species have been described under 
126 specific names. In relation te the geographical distribution 
of Carcinus moenas we would say that we have found it in the 
collection of Union College, kot ‘Northhanipton county, Eastern 
shore, Atlantic side, Virginia. This is the farthest south that the 
species has been observed on this coast. A new species of Ger- 
yon (G. quinquedens) is described and figured, as is the only other 
known species (G. évidens). It differs from Kroyer's species in 
having the antero-lateral margin five toothed. Cancer borealis is 
figured for the first time. C/ionecetes behringianus Stm., is shown 
to be synonymous with C. o pee (O. Fabr. at The name 
Paguroids. We po ave observed a similar structure in the genus 
arcinus. ond species of the genus Sabinea (S. sarsii) is- 
described and ‘heared, Hippolyte securifrons Norman, is new to 
our coast. Pandalus annulicornis has to give way to the name | 
P. montagui. In regard to Palemonetes vulgaris we would say 
that besides the specimens from Salem Mill-pond (C. Cooke) we 
have seen specimens in the museum of the Peabody Academy at 
1 The Stal k-eyed Crustaceans of the Atlantic Coast of North America, north © of 
oe Cod. By S. I. SmirH. (Trans. of the ey Academy of Arts and Sci- 
mon, y ol. e Pp. 7 pls. Teen; May, 18 
