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are casual or rare species, which have only been recorded on very few occa- 

 sions, 28 are winter residents, and 33 are birds which pass through the State 

 on the spring and fall migration. 



A bibliography of 19 pages is Included, together with a list of the various 

 localities mentioned in the work and a complete index. 



The finches and weaver birds of the Sudan, being notes on the group con- 

 taining' the birds injurious to grain crops, A. L. Butler (Ri)t. WcUcome 

 Research Lahs. Gordon Mem. Col. Khartoum, -i (1911), B. Gen. Sci., pp. 157-177, 

 pis. 2). — It is stated that this paper includes all the finches known to occur in 

 the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, although it is thought that only a small proportion 

 of them will be found to be appreciably destructive to agriculture. So far as 

 known the damage is done entirely by sparrows and the extremely abundant 

 weaver birds of the genera Hyphantornis, Xanthophilus, Quelea, and, in a 

 smaller degree, Pyromelana. 



The starling (Sturnus vulgaris) at Springfield, Mass., R. O. Morris (Auk. 

 29 (1912), No. 2, p. 2'f3). — Since 1908, when the presence of a single starling 

 was observed in the vicinity of Springfield, the species has rapidly increased 

 until in the winter of 1912 flocks of 100 individuals were frequently seen, oc- 

 casionally coming into the very center of the city, and frequenting the spires 

 and cupolas of the churches and public buildings. 



The composition of taxononiic papers, R. A. Muttkowski (Ann. Ent. Hoc. 

 Amer., Jf (1911), No. 2, pp. 19-'f-217). — The author discusses standards for 

 descriptions, colors, nomenclature, keys, indexes, titles, and reprints. 



A bibliography of the principal writings of Daniel William Coquillett 

 (Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., 13 (1911), No. 4, pp. 199-210).— This bibhography, 

 which is arranged in chronological order, includes publications Issued from 

 1876 to 1911. 



Eleventh report of the state entomologist of Connecticut for the year 1911, 

 W. E. Britton (Connecticut Sta. Rpt. 1911, pt. J,, pp. IV+259-3>i6, pis. 16, figs. 

 10). — A brief financial statement and reiwrt of the chief lines of work, ento- 

 mological features of 1911, and inspection of nurseries, including a list of 

 nursery firms in Connecticut receiving certificates in 1911, is first presented. 

 This is followed by an account of Inspection of Imported Nursery Stock (pp. 

 271-275), by W. E. Britton and B. H. Walden, of the inspection of apiaries in 

 1911 (pp. 275-277), of Progress in Controlling the Gipsy Moth in Connecticut 

 in 1911 (pp. 277-280) and Checking the Spread of the Brown-Tail Moth in 

 Connecticut in 1911 (pp. 281-286), the last two by W. E. Britton and D. J. 

 Caffrey. 



During the year but 3 gipsy-moth egg masses were discovered at Stonington, 

 and but 23 egg masses, 1,551 cateiTillars, 15 cocoons, and 2 adults, at Walling- 

 ford. The result of the work with the brown-tail moth shows that this pest, in 

 the course of its natural spread from the adjoining infested area in Massa- 

 chusetts and Rhode Island, has established itself in the towns of Thompson, 

 Woodstock, Putnam, Pomfret, and part of Killingly in Connecticut. 



An account of the onion maggot (Phorhia ceparum), including the character 

 of its damage, life history, description, natural enemies, control methods, pre- 

 ventives, remedies, and literature, is presented by D. J. Caffrey (pp. 286-292). 

 Under the heading The Pyralid (Omphalocera dentosa), a Pest of Barberry 

 Hedges, the author describes the feeding habits of this moth. The caterpillars 

 were found feeding not only uix)n the common barberry, Berheris -vulgaris and 

 its purple-leaved form, but also on the Japanese barberry, B. thunhergii, which 

 is used rather extensively for hedges, and on other species of barberry. 



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