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menclature of the several classes of animals to which the work is devoted. 
With respect to the Mammals and Fishes^ the author’s plan of excluding the 
marine forms was doubtless, for various reasons, a wise one, especially in 
the case of the Cetaceans, concerning which our knowledge is still lament- 
ably deficient. In respect to Birds, however, the desire for uniformity is 
the only obvious reason for not including the few strictly marine species, 
— a reason we deem quite insufficient for marring the otherwise praise- 
worthy completeness of the portion of the work devoted to this class. 
We notice, however, the absence of Helminthophaga leucohronchialis, while 
such species as Euspiza townsendi and JEgiothus flavirostris var. hrewsteri, 
are included. A few species not yet recorded as found east of the Mis- 
souri are also included, though the western boundary of the district located 
is assumed to be the Mississippi River. But these are points that in no 
way seriously detract from the merits of the book. Several of the analyti- 
cal tables of different groups of birds are based on or taken directly from 
Coues’s key, and the latest and best authorities are followed for the other 
classes. Cope is closely followed for the Reptiles and Batrachians, while 
the Fishes show much original work. The Mammals are brought dowm to 
the literature of six months since, but several papers now in press or that 
have recently appeared will necessitate^a few changes in nomenclature in 
future editions. In all cases the author gives liberal credit to the sources 
from which he has gathered his materials, as well as for aid more directly 
furnished. 
On the whole, the author is to be congratulated on the success he has 
achieved in this difficult undertaking, combining in a work of convenient 
size and moderate cost a text-book of the Vertebrate Animals of the North- 
eastern States, reliable in character and sufficiently extended to guide the 
student with tolerable ease to the name of any species he may chance to 
have in hand. — J. A. A, 
(Settersl 
Captuee of the Orange-crowned Warbler in Massachusetts, — 
The Orange-crowned Warbler (Helminthophaga celata) must be regarded, 
so far as our present knowledge warrants, as a rare visitor to New England. 
Two only have been previously reported in Massachusetts,* and these, with 
a third shot in New Hampshire, t fill the list of New England quota- 
tions. 
* One was taken at Springfield, May 16, 1863, by Mr. J. A. Allen (see Proc. 
Essex Institute, Vol. IV, p. 60), and the other at Lynn, Jan., 1875 (see Brewer, 
in Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. XVII, p. 439). 
t At Hollis, May 16, 1876, by Mr. W. H. Fox (Forest and Stream, Vol. VI, 
p. 354). 
