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BOOKS RECEIVED. 



The Auk — a quarterly journal of Ornithology — April, 1886. [The Am. O. U. 

 The A. O. U. List of American Birds and Code of Nomenclature. [The A. O. U. 

 Midland Naturalist for April 1886. [The Editors. 



The Young Naturalist for April 1886. [J. E. Robson, Editor. 



Tne Naturalist's World for April 1886. [P. Lund, Editor. 



Illustrated Science Monthly for April 1886. [Bogue, Publisher. 



Science Gossip for April 1886. [Chatto and Windus, Publishers. 



Natural History Journal for April 1886. [J. E. Clarke, Editor. 



Hertfordshire Nat. Hist. Society. — Transactions, vol. iii, parts 8 and 9, February 



and March 1886. [The Society. 



The Native States of India. — By the Marquis of Ripon. 8vo, 30 pages, 1886. 

 Journal of Microscopy and Natural Science — April 1886. [Alfred Allen, Editor. 

 New York Microscopical Society — Journal, January 1886. [The Society. 



A Short Trip to Eastern Iceland. — By James Backhouse, jun. 8vo reprint, 1885, 



1 5 pages. [The Author. 



•On the Bones of the Lynx from Teesdale. — -By Wm. Davies, F.G.S. 8vo reprint, 



1880, 4 pages and 2 plates. [J. Backhouse. 



Workmen and Museums. — By 'R. M.' 8vo reprint, 1886, 28 pages. 



[Mr. J. L. Denson. 



History of Botany. — By John Clayton. 8vo, 16 pages. [Bradford Nat. Society. 

 A Tourist's View of Ireland. 8vo, 55 pages. [H. Speight. 



The Birds of Cumberland.— By Macpherson and Duckworth. 8vo, 206 pages, 

 with map and plate. [The Authors. 



THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



Information is desired at once on the Warblers, their distribution, nidification, 

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