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already fully noticed in this Bulletin. Its utility no working ornitholo- 
gist can fail to highly appreciate, while it will form an enduring monu- 
ment to the author’s patience, industry, and thoroughness of research. — 
J. A. A. 
Coues’s Fourth Instalment of Ornithological Bibliography.* 
— This “Fourth Instalment ” is of the same character as the first two, and 
attempts to do for British Birds what those did for American Birds. ' It 
accordingly is intended to include “the titles of all publications treating 
of British Birds as such, exclusively, or indiscriminately and collectively.” 
“ In order to fall within the scope of this fourth instalment,” says the 
author, “ a publication must relate to British Birds as such. Secondly, 
it must relate to British Birds exclusively. Thirdly, it must relate to birds 
of more than one species, genus, or family.” “This instalment,” the 
author further states, “ like those which have preceded it, is to be con- 
sidered in the light of published proof-sheets, to be cancelled on the final 
appearance of the. whole work.” The titles here given fill upward of a 
hundred pages, yet the author believes that they include not more than 
one-half of the number reallj' belonging here, and urges that defects and 
omissions be kindly brought to his notice. As it is, being accurate as far 
as it goes, it will prove of great usefulness, and is entitled to the cordial 
welcome it will doubtless receive. — J. A. A. 
Harvie-Brown on the Capercaillie in Scotland.! — As already 
noticed in the pages of the Bulletin, (Vol. V, pp. no, iii). Mr. Harvie- 
Brown published last year an exhaustive little work on the Capercaillie 
in Scotland, giving a history of its extinction and subsequent introduction 
and dispersion. The present paper is a continuation of the Appendix of 
that work, giving an account of its extension in 1879, with a few additional 
references to early records of its presence in Scotland and Wales. — J. A. A. 
Steere on the Birds of Ann Arbor, Michigan. :£ — This briefly 
annotated list of 111 species is good as far as it goes, but is obviously very 
imperfect, including less than half of the species that undoubtedly occur 
there. The author himself thus speaks of it: “This does not pretend to 
be a complete list of the birds found about Ann Arbor; but, with the excep- 
tion of a few, given upon the authority of labeled specimens in the 
Museum, it is the result of about three years’ collecting and observation 
in this vicinity” (p. 7). — J. A. A. 
* Fourth Instalment of Ornithological Bibliography : being a list of Faunal Publica- 
tions relating to British Birds. By Dr. Elliott Coues, U. S. A. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
Vol. II, pp. 359-476. Published “ May 31, 1880.” 
f The Capercaillie in Scotland. By J. A. Harvie-Brown, F. R. S. Scottish Natu- 
ralist, July, 1880. Author’s reprint, pp. 1-7. 
J A List of the Mammals and Birds of Ann Arbor and Vicinity. By Professor J. B. 
Steere. 8vo, 8 pp. 1880. 
