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Recent Literature. 
Ingersoli/s Nests and Eggs of American Birds. — Part I of 
Mr. Ingersoll’s long-promised work on North American oology,* which is 
now before us, treats of ten species of Thrushes, and gives illustrations of 
their eggs. The text includes, not only descriptions of the nests and eggs 
of the species treated, but a full and pleasantly written account of their 
habits and breeding range. The author shows himself thoroughly familiar 
with the literature of the subject, and his quotations respecting the species 
he has not himself had opportunity of studying in the field are in the main 
selected with commendable judgment. For a popular work on American 
birds, Mr. Ingersoll could not have chosen a more attractive department 
of the subject, or one of greater interest to the mass of bird-lovers, 
and especially to juvenile collectors, whose interest in ornithology begins 
so frequently with the formation of an egg-cabinet. The text of the Part 
before us gives promise that the subject will be creditably handled. We 
wish that we could speak in terms of equal commendation of the chromo- 
lithographic plates, which are sadly defective in point of faithfulness to 
nature and in artistic execution. We understand, however, that better 
results may be expected in future numbers. 
The work is announced to appear in monthly parts, the whole to form 
probably three volumes of twelve parts each. The work is printed on 
heavy tinted paper, and in point of typography is everything that need be 
desired. The nomenclature' and arrangement are apparently strictly that 
of Dr. Coues’s “ Check-List,” the eggs being perhaps numbered to corre- 
spond with the “ Check-List. ” ; but as there is no direct reference in the 
text to the figures, some explanation in this regard would have been ac- 
ceptable, or, better still, the names of the species illustrated might have 
been placed at the bottom of the plates, in place of the needless legend 
there borne. — J. A. A. 
A Revised List of Birds of Central New York.| — This 
is the title of a very neatly gotten-up pamphlet of forty- seven pages, 
“ collated and prepared for publication by Frank R. Rathbun.” The 
original “ Rathbun-Fowler List ” was published in the “ Auburn Daily 
Advertiser” of August 14, 1877, and has twice been noticed in this 
Bulletin (Vol. Ill, No. 1, p. 35; and No. 2, p. 85). It was in part a 
reprint of a list published by Mr. H. Gilbert FoAvler in “ Forest and 
* Nests and Eggs of American Birds. By Ernest Ingersoll. S. E. Cassino, 
Naturalists’ Agency, Salem, Mass. (No date.) Large 8vo. Pt. I, pp. 1-24. 
Pll. i, ii. March, 1879. 
t A Revised List of Birds of Central New York. Based on the Observations 
of Frank R. Rathbun, H. Gilbert Fowler, Frank S. Wright, Samuel F. Rath- 
bun, in the Counties of Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca, Wayne, and Yates. 
Collated and prepared for Publication by Frank R. Rathbun. Auburn, N. Y. : 
Daily Advertiser and Weekly Journal Book and Job Printing House. April 
17, 1879. 
