RECENT LITERATURE. 



The Occurrence of Cooper s Leiiiming Mouse {Syiiapto77iys 

 cooperi) in the Atlantic States. By Dr. C. Hart Merriam. Proc. 

 Biol. Soc Wash. VII, 175-177. Notices cf 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 Witrner Stone. This new subspecies is named Evo- 

 tomys gapperi rhoadsii. 



The January number of The 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 szvainsotiii, 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, Junco pinosiis, 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 Campylirhyncluis Mergele, a 

 genus of coleoptera. 



