Recently published Ornithological Works. 381 
done well in preparing the two works mentioned above. The 
first is an index to the eleventh and last volume of f Stray 
Feathers' (unfortunately incomplete); the second is a 
systematic and alphabetical index to the whole series of 
eleven volumes of the same work. Mr. Chubb could hardly 
have spent his ic leisure time during the past two years 99 in 
a manner more useful to ornithologists, who, we are sure, 
will be grateful to him for the facilities thus afforded for 
reference to this important work. 
f Stray Feathers ' is a mine of wealth to those who seek 
information on Indian birds, though somewhat difficult of 
access, and Mr. Chubb has now provided a much-needed 
spade for digging into what was hard to penetrate without it. 
Dr. Bowdler Sharpe has helped Mr. Chubb with encourage¬ 
ment and advice, and Mr. Quaritch has aided by publishing 
the results of his labours. 
36. Cory on the Birds of Eastern North America. 
[The Birds of Eastern North America. Pt. I. Water-birds ; Pt. II. 
Land-birds; Key to the Families and Species. By Charles B. Cory. 
Field Columbian Museum, Chicago : 1899, 8vo.] 
This excellent compendium is on the lines of the author's 
useful booklets, f How to know the Shore-birds 9 and f How 
to know the Ducks, Swans, and Geese of North America/ 
noticed in f The Ibis/ 1898, p. 3C0. It is profusely illus¬ 
trated, the descriptions are remarkably concise, and a more 
valuable hand-book can scarcely be imagined. We are con¬ 
fronted by our old enemy Podicipidse 99 for Podicipedidse ; 
but then, according to the A. O. U. creed (canon xxxi.), a 
name employed by some one “ with little Latin and less 
Greek" must not be rejected, nor—as it would seem— 
amended. Mr. Cory naturally follows the Code. 
37. Dubois 9 c Synopsis Avium 9 
[Synopsis Avium. Nouveau Manuel d’Ornithologie par Alphonse 
Dubois. Fasc. I., Psittaci, Scansores, Pici. Bruxelles, 1899. 8vo, pp. 80.] 
The completion of the ‘ Catalogue of Birds in the British 
Museum' has rendered the compilation of new Synopses 
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