RECENT LITERATURE OF VIRGINIA ORNITHOLOGY. 



Local catalogues of Virginia birds or other special papers re- 

 lating to its ornithology are of modern date. In the following 

 list of the more important publications are included the very 

 valuable papers on the birds of the District of Columbia, which 

 are practically the same as the birds of the north-eastern part of 

 the State. These writings contain also many special references 

 to the neighboring parts of Virginia. Many short notes or 

 articles are also to be found in the pages of "The Auk," 

 " Forest and Stream," '• The American Field" and other period- 

 icals while frequent allusions to Virginia are contained in several 

 of the more general works on birds such as Audubon, Baird 

 Brewer and Ridgway, and Trumbull's ^ Names and Portraits of 

 Birds." 



1862 (i) Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 

 1861, pp. 399-421. List of Birds ascertained to inhabit the 

 District of Columbia, with the times of arrival and depart- 

 ure of such as are non-resident, and brief notices of habits, 

 etc. By Elliott Coues and D. Webster Prentiss. 

 1870 (2) Observations on the Fauna of the Southern AUe- 

 ghanies. By E. D. Cope. American Naturalist, Vol. IV. 



PP- 395-399' 1S70. 

 1873 (3) Partial List of the Summer Birds of Kanawha 

 County West Virginia, with Annotations. By W. D. 

 Scott. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. Vol. XV, pp. 219-230, 

 Oct. 1872. [A list of eighty-six species with notes.] 



1875 (4) The Vacation of an Ornithologist, being observations 

 in spring on birds at Petroleum, Ritchie Co., West Virginia. 

 By Ernest Ingersoll. Forest and Stream, Vol. IV, p. 358, 



1876 (5) Some observations on the Birds of Ritchie County, 

 West Virginia. By Wm. Brewster. Ann. Lyceum. Nat. 

 Hist. N. Y., Vol. XI, pp. 129-146, June 1875. [An an- 

 notated list of one hundred species.] 



1876 (6) Notes on birds found breeding on Cobb's Island, Va., 

 between May 25th and May 29th 1875. By H. B. Bailey. 



