RECENT LITERATURE. 
The Occurrence of Cooper's Lemming Mouse (Synaptomys 
coopert) in the Atlantic States. By Dr. C. Hart Merriam. Proc. 
Biol. Soc. Wash. VII,.175-177. Notices of the capture of additional 
specimens of this species, rare in collections, Baird’s type of which 
the author supposes came from New York State, possibly from New 
Jersey. 
The American Naturalist, January, 1893: ‘‘A new Synaptomys 
from New Jersey,” by Samuel N. Rhodes. This new species is 
named Synaptomys stonei. ‘A new Evotomys from Southern New 
Jersey,’’ by Witmer Stone. This new subspecies is named £vo- 
-tomys gappert rhoadsit. 
The January number of 7%é Auk has two half-tone plates, illus- 
trating an article by Charles Slover Allen, on ‘‘The Nesting of the 
Black Duck on Plum Island.’”’ One represents a nest in a thicket, 
the other a group of black ducks, two adult birds with young, from 
the representation so successfully executed by Mr. Richardson for 
the American Museum. ‘‘ Notes on Certain Washington and British 
Columbia Birds,”’ by Samuel N. Rhoads. A preliminary paper with 
a list of additions and critical notes on the status of Corvus ameri- 
canus, C. caurinus, Melospiza lincolni striata, which is considered 
‘less entitled to recognition than certain subspecies once included, 
but now stricken from the check list.’’ One of these ‘‘stricken”’ 
forms is Vireo gilvus swainsonit, for which evidence is offered for 
its re-instatement. Sylvania pusilla pileolata is considered a very 
weak subspecies. One new subspecies is described from the central 
Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Parus hudsonicus columbi- 
anus, Columbian Chickadee, of which the A. O. U. committee will 
take cognizance. ‘‘ Description of a New Junco from California,’’ 
by Leverett M. Loomis, Juco pinosus, Point Pinos Junco, from 
near Monterey. The fifth supplement to the check-list of North 
American birds, which appears in this number, contains important 
additions and changes. The sparrow hawk of California becomes 
Falco sparverius deserticolus Mearns, Desert Sparrow Hawk. Vireo 
vicinior californicus Stephens was ‘“‘considered as not entitled to 
recognition.” Mr. T. S. Palmer proposes Heleodytes Cabanis for 
Campylor hynchus Spix antedated by oe Mergele, a 
genus of coleoptera. 
