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497. Howe's 'Every Bird.' <Auk, XIII, p. 247, July, 1896. 



Review of Reginald Heber Howe, Jr's., work of this title (sm. 8vo, Boston, 1896). 



498. Winchell's 'Evolution of Bird Song.' <Auk, XIII, pp. 249-250, July, 1896. 



Review of Charles A. Winchell's work of this title (8vo, London and New York). 



499. Harvey-Brown and Buckley's 'A Vertebrate Fauna of the Moray Basin.' < 



Auk, XIII, pp. 251-252, July, 1896. 



Review of the work (sm. 4to, Edinburgh, 1895). 



500. The Origin and Relations of the Floras and Faunas of the Antarctic and adja- 



cent Regions. Vertebrata of the Land; Birds and Mammals. < Science (2), 

 III, No. 61, pp. 317-319, Feb. 28, 1896. 



Rirds offer no satisfactory evidence of a former "Antarctic Continent." 



501. Alleged Changes of Color in the Feathers of Birds without Molting. <BulU 



Amer Mus. Nat. Hist., VIII, pp. 13-44, March 18, 1896. 



"It is a summary and criticism of the work of some of the more important writers upon 

 the subject of color changes in feathers without moult, and it deals unsparingly with those 

 who have asserted as possible the complete rejuvenation of an abraded feather. . . ." — J. 

 Dwight, Jr., in Auk, XIII, pp. 166-167, April, 1896. 



502. Schwann's Handbook of British Birds. <Auk, XIII, pp. 328-329, Oct., 1896. 



Review of H. Kirke Schwann's 'Concise Handbook of Rritish Birds' (16mo, London, 

 1896). 



503. Ridgway and Lucas on a New Family [Procniatidse] of Birds. <Auk, XIII, 



pp. 334-335, Oct., 1896. 



Review of two papers on this subject by R. Ridgway and F. A. Lucas, in Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., XVIII, pp. 450, and 505-507. 



504. Montgomery on Migration as a Check upon Geographic Variation. <Auk, 



XIII, p. 335, Oct., 1896. 



Review of a paper by Thomas H. Montgomery, Jr., in Amer. Nat., 1896, pp. 458-464. 



505. Contributions to Economic Ornithology. <Auk, XIII, pp. 335-338, Oct., 1896. 



Notice of papers by S. D. Judd, F. E. L. Beal, E. H. Forbush, and Miss F. A. Merriam. 



1897. 



506. Sharpe's Catalogue of the Limicoke. <Auk, XIV, pp. 102-104, Jan., 1897. 



Review of Vol. XXIV of the British Museum Catalogue of Birds, 1896. 



507. Bendire's 'Life Histories of North American Birds.' <Auk, XIV, pp. 104-106, 



Jan., 1897. 



Review of Part II of Capt. Charles E. Rendire's important work. (See supra, No. 405). 



508. Miss Merriam's ' A-Birding on a Bronco.' <Auk, XIV, pp. 107-108, Jan., 1897. 



Review of Miss Florence A. Merriam's work of this title (16mo, Boston and New York, 

 1896). 



509. 'Papers Presented to the World's Congress of Ornithology.' <Auk } XIV, p. 



108, Jan., 1897. 



Review of a volume thus entitled, and edited by Mrs. E. Irene Rood (8vo, Chicago, 1896) . 



