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1878. Allen, J. A. Description of a Fossil Passerine Bird from the Insect- 

 bearing Shales of Colorado. <^ Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Ten:, 

 iv, No. 2, May 3, 1878, art. xix, pp. 443-445, pi. 1, figg. 1, 2. 



Palceospiza hella, g. sp. n., Y). H":} — the iirst fossil Passeri le discovered in N. A. 

 It bears distinct impressions of feathers. N. B.— A few copies of this No. of the 

 Btill. were in private circulation from abont April 14, and some electros, of the 

 plate ■were sent ont during tliis month. Thus, the cut .appeared in a Californian 

 newspaper, with a compiled account of the bird, April 27. The article was im- 

 mediately reprinted in the Am. Jcurn. Sci. for May, 1878. 



1878. [Anon.] A Remarkable Fossil Bird [Palseospiza bella, Allen J. 



< Pacific Rural Press (newspaper), vol. xv, No. 17, April 27, 1878, 

 p. 257, fig. 



Anonymous, but contributed to the paper by the IT. S. Geological Survey. It 

 is an abstract of the original account, accompanied by an electro., and .actually 

 antedates the regular publication of the article by six days. 



1878. [Anon.] Ridgway's Ornithology of the Fortieth Parallel. < Amer. 

 Nat, xii, No. 7, July, 1878, p. 469. 

 Short notice cf the work. 



1878. [Anon.] American Ornithology, [etc.] <^Forest and Stream, x, Feb. 

 7, 1878, p. 12. 



Notice of reissue of an ed. of Wilson and Bonaparte, 3 vols. 8vo, New York, 

 J. "W. Bouton. 



1878. [Anon.] [Notice of A. Pope's] Upland Game Birds and Water-fowl of 

 the United States, [etc.] <^ Forest and Stream, x. May 9, 1878, p. 266 ; 

 2d notice, title modified. May 30, 1878, p. 325. 



1878. AtJGHEY, S. Department of the Interior. | United States Geological 

 Survey. | F. V. Hayden,U. S. Geologist-in-charge. | — | First Annual 

 Report I of the | United States | Entomological Commission | for | 

 The Year 1877 | relating to the | Rocky Mountain Locust | and | the 

 best methods of preventing its injuries and of guarding against its 

 invasions, in pursuance of an appropria- | tion made by Congress for 

 this purpose. | With maps and illustrations. | — | Washington : | 

 Government Printing Office. 1878. 1 vol, 8vo. pp. i-xvi, 1-477, 

 [l]-[294], 6 11., pU. i-v, maps, cuts. ]> Appendix II. Notes on the 

 Nature of the Food of the Birds of Nebraska. By Prof. Samuel 

 Aughey. pp. [13]-[62]. 



A considerable paper, giving a nearly complete list of the birds of the State, 

 fully annot.ated from the special perspective implied in the title of the book, and 

 including tabular exhibits of contents of stotoachs in a thou.sand cases or more. 

 Other remarks are those ordinarily making part of a local list. It would seem 

 that nearly all birds eat grasshoppers under some circumstance, if not habit- 

 ually. The nomenclature of the paper is revised by E. Coues. 



1878. Ballou, W. H. The Natural History of the Islands of Lake Erie. 



< Field and Forest, iii. No. 9, Mar., 1878, pp. 135-137. 



Chiefly ornithological, and includes a nominal list of birds; the breeders 

 marked with an asterisk. 



1878. Barber, E. A. Ornithological Notes. < Amer. Nat., xii, No. 7, July, 

 1878, pp. 477, 478. 

 On peculiarities in oviposition of Molothms pecoris and Stumella magna. 



1878. Benner, F. Bird Notes from Long Island. < Forest and Stream, x, 

 1878, pp. 174, 215. 



