. The Oist . hological work ; and asa hand-book of the birds of the ColoradoValley, it holds a high position in ourbird literature. In addition to the ornith-ological portion, is a Bibliographical Index,giving a skeleton of the ornithological lit-erature of North America up to the presenttime. There is much of interest to the sci-entifically inclined, the synonymy of thespecies, especially, being very complete ;while the fresh morsels in the life-historyof the birds, which are so numerously dis-persed throughout work, will remindany bird-naturalist of happy days spent a-mong them. While i
. The Oist . hological work ; and asa hand-book of the birds of the ColoradoValley, it holds a high position in ourbird literature. In addition to the ornith-ological portion, is a Bibliographical Index,giving a skeleton of the ornithological lit-erature of North America up to the presenttime. There is much of interest to the sci-entifically inclined, the synonymy of thespecies, especially, being very complete ;while the fresh morsels in the life-historyof the birds, which are so numerously dis-persed throughout work, will remindany bird-naturalist of happy days spent a-mong them. While it is not a work forfor the general reader, it is one in which theornithologist is at home, and by means ofwhich he may and should be incited togreater effoit. Dr. Jaspers woik on the Birds of NorthAmerica is completed, forty numbers hav-ing been issued. The plates are very good,and are pretty accurate, but llie text is main-ly too general to be considered a contribu-tiou to current oruitholoijical • m -i4 ® oioqi
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