550 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
its excellence, and is even more interesting than usual, as it 
contains the critical races of Creepers, Tits, and so forth. 
An instance in point is the difference of habits between the 
Marsh- and Willow-Tits, where we quite agree with the 
author that the latter in all probability excavates its own 
nesting-hole and utters a peculiar note. 
The plates are very good and the impressions clear, the 
figures of the eggs of Molothrus cabanisi, Cisticola cisticola 
Sylvia melanocephala, Acrocephalus schoenobcenus, A. arun- 
dinaceus, Tutanus fuscus , and Numenius phceopus being 
admirable. The larger eggs are the least successful and 
come out rather flat-looking. The variety of the egg of 
the Goldcrest with a white ground is not included, and the 
colour in the case of the Grasshopper Warbler is scarcely 
pink enough. But our only real objection is to the number 
of very similar eggs figured of the Redshank, Black-tailed 
God wit, Noddy, and Adriatic Gull, or—in a lesser degree— 
to the absence of a representation of a boldly marked specimen 
of the Stone-Curlew, such as is not uncommon. 
66. Knight on the Birds of Maine. 
[The Birds of Maine, with Key to and Description of the various 
Species known to occur or to have occurred in the State, an Account of 
their Distribution and Migration, showing their relative abundance in 
the various Counties of the State as well as other regions, and Contribu¬ 
tions to their Life-histories. By Ora Willis Knight, M.S. Bangor, 
Maine : 1908. 1 vol. 8vo. 693 pp.] 
The love of birds is far spread in America, and most of 
the enlightened States of the East and West have Manuals 
of their native species. Here we find a good solid volume 
on the Birds of Maine, which will be also serviceable for the 
dwellers in Lower Canada, which the State of Maine so 
closely adjoins. A List of the Birds of Maine was published 
some years ago, and, as will be seen by the ‘ Bibliography 5 
in the present volume, a large number of books and memoirs 
refer more or less to the subject. But the present publica¬ 
tion is much more than a List. It is, in fact, a complete 
treatise on the Ornis of the State, containing descriptions 
of all the species, keys to assist in their identification, and 
