358 Recent Literature. [June, 
illustrates the honorable capacity of the amateur naturalist (we use the 
term in its best sense, implying high credit, without a shade of the re- 
verse) to supplement museum-acquired learning with other information 
of equal scientific importance, of greater practical utility, and much more 
general interest. This is exactly what the present work very conspicu- 
ously accomplishes. It will, we make no doubt, meet with a hearty wel- 
gaged as we are upon a general history of North American Mammals, 
we would thank the author personally for a contribution so timely and 
so exactly to our hand; we are selfishly pleased to find so generous a 
slice of the work already cut and dried for our own use. 
As already intimated, we do not here propose any elaborate review of 
the work in detail, and we close with allusion to a few leading points: 
the prongbuck is very fully treated in the first sixty-five pages; then 
follow the eight “distinct and well-defined ” North American species of 
Cervide, namely, the moose, the wapiti or American elk, the two spe- 
cies of reindeer, woodland and barren-ground, the common or Vir- 
ginian deer, the mule deer (commonly called black-tail in the West), 
' the Columbian or true black-tailed deer of the Pacific slopes, and a cu- 
rious little species, lately described by the Judge as new, under the name 
of Cervus Acapulcensis. We are not opisi with the latter; the 
recognition of the other seven agrees with our previous impressions on 
the subject, and with the now generally accepted views of the best au- 
thorities. These species occupy pp. 66-322. The work very properly 
continues with a comparison of the several European species. Sroa 
are frequently puzzled by the reverse use of the terms “moose” and 
“elk.” The author makes it perfectly aen that the American moose 
is the analogue of the palmate-horned animal called “ elk” in Europe; 
and that the American elk is the tous of the stag or red deer of 
Europe. From among the many characteristic wood-cuts which illus- 
trate the volume, we have selected as most useful to reproduce for our 
readers the four pictures which show up this — E. Coves. 
Brehm’s Thierleben. Band 9, Heft 1-7. Lipie 1877. For sale by Wester- 
mann & Co., 524 Broadway, New York. 40 cents a Heft. 
Revisio critica Capsinarum, eaii il et Fenniæ. Ab Odo M: Reuter. 
Helsingfors. 1875. 8vo, 
South Kensington faiva fela Handbooks. Branch Museum, Bethnal Ciroen. 
_ Economic Entomology. By Andrew Murray, F. L. S. Aptera. Chapman and Hall, 
193 Picadilly, London. 12mo, pp- 433, with numerous cuts. 
Capsinæ ex America boreali in Museo Holmiensi asservatæ, descriptæ ab O. M. 
Reuter. Stockholm. 1875. 8vo, pp. 33 
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