In issuing a second and revised edition of Wake-Robin, the author has added a chapter on The Bluebird, and otherwise enlarged and corrected the text here and there. The illustrations are kindly furnished by Prof. Baird, and are taken from the “History of North American Birds,” by himself, Dr. Brewer, and Mr. Ridgeway, and published by Little, Brown, & Co.,—the most complete work on our birds that has yet appeared. The hermit-thrush represented is the Western hermit (Turdus ustulatis), and we have been obliged to substitute the black fly-catcher (Saponis nigricans) for the pewee, and the house finch (Corpodacus frontalis) for the purple finch; but the difference is hardly appreciable in an uncolored engraving.

November, 1876.