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Pipilo alleni — leucopsis of Maynard — is a different one. The author here 
re-names a bird admitted by him to have before been properly introduced 
into ornithological circles. But he of course did so without any expectation 
that the second name would stand. Viewed simply as an expression of his 
claim to the discovery of the form — a perfectly valid one, it may be 
remarked — it can do no special harm ; it simply adds one more to the list 
of synonyms. 
The general typographical features of the book are extremely pleasing, 
and excellent judgment is shown in the selection of the type, so that the 
printed page not only looks fair to the eye, but makes good reading. We 
notice here and there evidences of careless proof-reading, but in the main 
the “ get up” of the book is all that is to be desired. 
It is evident that the “ Birds of Eastern North America” was written 
more with a view of striking the popular taste than as a hand-book for 
the systematic ornithologist, and that it is from the former stand-point 
that its chief success must come. The reader will find that the author’s 
rambles among the Florida Keys, in the Everglades, and in the forests 
from Maine to Florida, have given him a wide experience from which to 
cull his facts, and that from it he has drawn much interesting matter, both 
in the way of personal incident and of bird histories. 
In conclusion, we may be permitted to express the feeling that the por- 
tions of the work now before us do not by any means represent the author’s 
best efforts, and that in certain particulars, but especially as regards the 
plates, he is capable of placing the work on a far higher plane than can at 
present be accorded it. — H. W. H. 
Gregg’s Birds of Chemung County, N. Y.* — In Dr. Gregg's 
“ Revised Catalogue ” we have a list of the birds of a locality to which little 
attention has been paid by ornithologists. The list of which this is a 
revision was issued ten years ago, and contained many errors. These 
have been corrected — notably that about the Creeper’s nest and the 
case of “ Collyrio chemungensis ” — and considerable additions made, some, 
perhaps, upon doubtful authority. In all, 217 species are enumerated, 
excluding the record of Parus carolinensis , which we are bidden to ex- 
punge. A few. lines of notes accompany each name, but the only general 
fact of particular interest is the absence, or extreme rarity, of some 
Southern birds that might be expected to occur. The immediate locality 
of observation is Elmira, to which the often-written “here ” refers, although 
there is nothing to show that this is the case. — E. I. 
Freke on Birds common to Europe and North America. — 
Mr. Freke’s Catalogue f of Birds found in Europe and North America 
* Revised Catalogue of the Birds of Chemung County, New York. By W. 
H. Gregg, M. D. Elmira, N. Y. : 0. H. Wheeler. 1880. 
t A Comparative Catalogue of Birds found in Europe apd North America. 
By Percy Evans Freke. Dublin, 1880. 8vo, pp. 44. “From the Scientific 
Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society.” 
