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Recent Literature. 
fail to appreciate the good office Mr. Bailey has rendered us all ; and every 
one upon whom the bibliographical blight has descended knows what an 
immense amount of industry that curse entails. The author has our hearty 
sympathy in the latter, and our best thanks for the former. His work is 
more than a mere alphabetical list of names, followed by reference figures; 
for it includes, as the title says, a summary of each article indexed — often 
giving just the points wanted, thus rendering it unnecessary to look up 
the reference. The Index also includes authors 5 names, and among these 
the authorship of many pseudonyms and initial-signatures are for the first 
time properly exposed. The summation of the bird-matters seems to be 
quite complete, and is certainly extensive, in the cases of some common 
game birds occupying several pages. We presume the work is not free 
from faults and errors of all' sorts, because nothing of the kind can be; 
but we have found it more reliable than its mechanical execution would 
lead one to expect. Considering how great a favor Mr. Bailey has conferred 
upon the publishers, and how much good his Index will do the paper, by 
“ setting it up” in the estimation of workings ornithologists higher even 
than it was before, his work might have been better dressed. — E. C. 
Chamberlain’s Catalogue of the Birds of New Brunswick.* — 
As many of our readers are doubtless aware, Mr. Montague Chamberlain 
has been engaged, for some time past, in investigating the bird fauna of 
New Brunswick, and an interesting result of his labors is now before us in 
the form of a catalogue of the birds of that Province. This paper, which 
forms by far the most important one in the publication of which it is 
a part, comprises some forty-three pages which are divided into two sec- 
tions; “Section A” being restricted to species which occur in St.John 
and King’s Counties”; while “Section B” embraces “species which have 
not been observed in Saint John or King’s Counties but which occur in 
other parts of the Province.” 
The former division treats of a region to which the author has evidently 
paid special attention, and the text, being mainly based on his personal 
observations or investigations, includes many interesting and several im- 
portant notes and records. From these we gather that the rather marked 
Alleghanian tinge which is known to pervade the bird-fauna of the entire 
coast region of Maine, as far as Eastport and Calais, extends still further 
eastward. Thus the Catbird, White-eyed Vireo, Towhee Bunting, Cow- 
bird, Meadow Lark, Baltimore Oriole, Carolina Dove, Least Bittern, 
Florida Gallinule, and a few others scarcely less characteristic of the more 
southern fauna, have been found within the area treated by the present 
paper, but all are marked as rare, and the greater number as merely 
accidental visitors. Many of the more important records have already 
been published elsewhere. 
* A Catalogue of the Birds of New Brunswick, with brief notes relating to their mi- 
grations, breeding, relative abundance, etc. By Montague Chamberlain. Bulletin of 
the Natural History Society of New Brunswick. No. 1, pp. 23-68. Published by the. 
Society. Saint John, N. B., 1882. 
