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     A work of far wider interest than the title implies. Colonel Goss 
     
     studied birds in many lands, and his pages testify to the keenness of 
     
     his observation. 
     
    
   
   
    
     LANGILLE, J. HlBBERT. Our Birds in their Haunts: A Popular 
     
     Treatise on the Birds of Eastern North America. Boston: S. E. Cas- 
     
     sino & Co., 1884. 12mo, pp. 1—624. 
     
    
   
   
    
     MAYNARD, C. J. The Birds of Eastern North America. With 
     
     Original Descriptions of all the Species which occur East of the 
     
     Mississippi River between the Arctic Circle and the Gulf of Mexico, 
     
     with Full Notes on their Habits, etc. Containing thirty-two plates 
     
     drawn on stone by the author. Newtonville, Mass: C. J. Maynard 
     
     & Co. 4to, pp. 1—532. 
     
    

    
     This is the final title-page; the first three parts (i—iii, 1872—”74) 
     
     were issued as The Birds of Florida, etc.; the next six (iv—ix, 1878) as 
     
     The Birds of Florida with the Water and Game Birds of Eastern North 
     
     America; and the concluding seven (x—xvi, 1879—’82) With the title as 
     
     quoted in full above. 
     
    
   
   
    
     MINOT, H. D. The Land Birds and Game Birds of New England, 
     
     with Descriptions of the Birds, their Nests and Eggs, their Habits and 
     
     Notes. With Illustrations. Salem, Mass, Naturalists’ Agency. Bos- 
     
     ton: Estes & Lauriat, 1877. 8vo, pp. i—xvi, 1—456. 
     
    

    
     A second edition, edited by William Brewster, published by Hough- 
     
     ton, Miffiin & 00., of which I have seen advance sheets of the Editor’s 
     
     Appendix, is issued as these pages go to press. 
     
    
   
   
    
     NELSON, EDWARD W. Report upon Natural History Collections 
     
     made in Alaska between the Years 1877 and 1881. . . . Edited by 
     
     Henry W. Henshaw. . . . No. III. Arctic Series of Publications, issued 
     
     in Connection with the Signal Service, United States Army. With 
     
     twenty-one Plates. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887. 
     
     4to. Birds, pp. 35—226, twelve colored plates. 
     
    
   
   
    
     RIDGWAY, ROBERT. A Manual of North American Birds. Illus- 
     
     trated by Four Hundred and Sixty—four Drawings of the Generic Char- 
     
     acters. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1887. Royal 8vo, 
     
     pp. i—xi, 1—631. One hundred and twenty-four plates. 
     
    

    
     Our standard systematic work. 
     
    
   
   
    
     RIDGWAY,'ROBERT. The Ornithologyof Illinois. Part 1. De- 
     
     scriptive Catalogue. Vol. I [Land Birds exclusive of the Gamma]. 
     
     Published by authority of the State Legislature. Springfield, 111.: 
     
     H. W. Rokker, Printer and Binder, 1889. Royal 8vo, pp. i—viii, 
     
    
   
   
    
     1—520. Colored frontispiece. Thirty-two plates. 
     
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