1895.] Recent Literature. 917 
Hovey, and Methods of Analysis pursued in the determination of min- 
ute quantities of metals in crystalline and clastic rocks, by James R. 
Robertson. A third appendix gives a list of the works referred to in 
the Report. 
Forty-one page plates and 250 diagrams, sections, etc. illustrate the 
text. 
Minot’s Land-Birds and Game-Birds of New England.’ 
—For nearly twenty years this remarkable and interesting book has 
ranked among the authorities on the subject of which it treats, and in 
editing this second edition, Mr. Brewster has not attempted a revision 
in the sense of adding fresh material, or of altering the text except 
where it seemed necessary in order to use it in connection with more 
modern works. It is practically reprinted nearly in it original form. 
The biographies which form the feature of the book were written from 
the author’s personal observation and comprise descriptions of the 
mature bird, of their nests and eggs, of their habits, and of their notes. 
Mr. Brewster has placed in foot notes the latest views as to nomen- 
clature, etc. and in a few instances corrects some of the authors’s views. 
The illustrations are wood-cuts in outline, drawn by the author from 
nature. 
Birds of Eastern North America.‘—In this handy pocket vol- 
ume Mr. Chapman aims to give the student a work, free from the 
technicalities that require a glossary for interpretation. He presents 
the subject in a comprehensive but simple way. Three introductory 
chapters contain suggestions as to methods of study, and the problems 
to be investigated by the student of ornithology—how, when and where 
to find birds—directions for collecting and preserving specimens in- 
cluding nests and eggs. The remaining pages, some 400 in number, 
contain the analytical keys, and descriptions of the species. The de- 
scriptions are very full, comprising the bird’s general range, manner of 
occurrence, comparative numbers, times of migration at several specific 
points, its nest and eggs, and finally a brief sketch of its haunts, notes 
and disposition. 
The illustrations are varied and include a charming colored frontis- 
piece, several full-page half-tone plates and upward of one hundred and 
fifty cuts in the text. 
3The Land-Birds and Game-Birds of New England. By H. D. Minot. Second 
Edition edited by William Brewster, Boston, 1895. Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 
Publishers 
1 Hand-Book of Birds of Eastern North America. By Frank M. Chapman, 
New York, 1895, D. Appleton & Co., Publishers. 
