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839. The Generic Names Mycteria and Tantalus of Linnaeus, 1758, <Auk, XXV, 

 . pp. 37-38, Jan., 1908. 



Tantalus, a synonym of Mycteria, is replaced by Jabiru Hellmayr, 1906. 



840. Widmann's 'Birds of Missouri.' <Auk, XXV, pp. 89-90, Jan., 1908. 



Review of Otto Widmann's 'A Preliminary Catalogue of the Rirds of Missouri' (Trans. 

 Acad. Sci. St. Louis, XVII, No. 1, pp. 1-288, Nov., 1907). 



841. Jones on 'The Development of Nestling Feathers.' <Auk, XXV, p. 90, Jan., 



1908. 



Review of Dr. Lynds Jones's paper of this title (Laboratory Bull. No. 13, Oberlin College, 

 Ohio, 1907). 



842. Beebe on Geographic Variation in Birds. <Auk, XXV, pp. 90-93, Jan., 1908. 



Review of C. William Beebe's ' Geographic Variation in Birds with especial reference to the 

 Effects of Humidity' (in Zoologica, I, No. 1, 1907, pp. 1-41, with 5 half-tone pll.). 



843. Braislin's Birds of Long Island, New York. <Auk, XXV, p. 93, Jan., 1908. 



Review of Dr. Wm. C. Braislin's 'A List of the Birds of Long Island, New York' (in Absl. 

 Proc. Linnsean Soc. New York for 1907, pp. 31-123). 



844. Finley's 'American Birds.' <Auk, XXV, pp. 93-94, Jan., 1908. 



Review of William Lovell Finley's work of this title (8vo, New York, 1907). 



845. Ihering's Birds of Brazil. <Auk, XXV, pp. 94-95, Jan., 1908. 



Review of Dr. Hermann von Ihering's 'As Aves do Brazil' (8vo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1907). 



846. Beal on 'Birds as Conservators of the Forest,' and on 'Birds of California in 



Relation to the Fruit Industry.' <Auk, XXV, pp. 95-97, Jan., 1908. 



Beview of two papers on these subjects by Prof. F. E. L. Beal, the first in Bep. New York 

 Forest, Fish and Game Comm., 1902-03; the other in Bull. Biolog. Survey, No. 30, 1907). 



847. Riddle's 'A Study of Fundamental Bars in Feathers.' <Auk, XXV, p. 98, 



Jan., 1908. 



Review of Oscar Riddle's paper of this title (Biol. Bull., XII, No. 3, 1907, pp. 165-174). 



848. Riddle on the Cause of Production of 'Down' and other Down-like Structures 



in the Plumages of Birds. <Amer. Nat., XLII, pp. 693-696, Oct., 1908. 



Review of paper by Oscar Riddle (in Biolog. Bull., XIV, pp. 163-176, Feb., 1908). 



849. Hopkins on the Bony Semicircular Canals of Birds. <Auk, XXV, pp. 98-99, 



Jan., 1908. 



Review of Miss May Agnes Hopkins's paper on this subject (Biol. Bull., XI, No. 5, 1906, 

 pp. 253-265). 



850. A Twenty-five Year Index to 'The Auk' and 'Nuttall Bulletin.' <Auk, XXV, 



pp. 99-100, Jan., 1908. 



Review of Dr. J. Dwight's 'Index,' etc., as above (8vo> Amer. Orn. Union, 1907). 



851. Annual Report of the National Association of Audubon Societies for 1907. 



<Auk, XXV, pp. 101-102, Jan., 1908. 



Review of President William Dutcher's Report as above (Bird-Lore, IX, pp. 285-372). 



