1SS5.3 Recent Literature. IOI 



758. Clarke's Crow in Southern Dakota. By G. Ayersborg [ = Agers- 

 borg]. Ibid., p. 84. 



759. The Hawks of '83. By J. M. W[liipple]. Ibid., p. 85. 



760. Downy Woodpecker. By John M. Howe v. Ibid., p. 85. 



761. Baltimore Oriole [as a Cage Bird]. Bv W. L. Scott. Ibid.. 

 p. 86. 



762. {Nest of tke~\ least Hittem. By Charles H. Neff. Ibid., p. 86. 



763. "Monkey-Faced Owls" By W. P. Tarrant. /bid., p. 87, with 

 cut. — Obviously the Barn Owl. 



764. Interesting Notes. By Charles D. Gibson. Ibid., pp. 87, 88. 



765. .4 Surprised Blue Jay. By S. H. L. /<W.. p. 88. (From 

 the Germantown 'Telegraph.') 



766. Change of Ownership. Editorial. Ibid., p. 92. — Valedictory, 

 and announcement of the transfer of the 'O. and O.' to Mr. Frank B. 

 Webster of Pawtucket, R. I. 



767. Notes from Manhattan. Kan. By 1). E. Lantz. Ibid., p. 92. — 

 On the nesting of a few species. 



768. Screech Owls Breeding in Confinement. By F. II. Carpenter. 

 Ibid., pp. 93, 94. 



769. Snow Buntings and Pileated Woodpeckers. By Charles I). Gib- 

 son. Ibid., p. 94. 



770. Be/ Is Vireo — ( Vireo belli. By D. E. Lantz. Ibid., pp. 94, 95. 



771. Red-headed Woodpeckers. By Moses B. Griffing. Ibid., p. 95. 

 —At Shelter Island, N. V. 



772. Tellow-breasted Chat. By F. H. Carpenter. Ibid., p. 96. — Breed- 

 ing at Rehoboth, Mass. — J. A. A. 



Publications Received. — Barrows, W. B. Birds of the Lower Uru- 

 guay. (Bull. N. O. C., VIII. and Auk, I.) 



Cory, C. B. The Birds of Haiti and San Domingo. Part III, 18S4, 4to. 

 pp. 1 12-160, pll. 6. 



Garman, S. On the Use of Polynomials as Names in Zoology. (Proc. 

 Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.. 1S84, pp. 7 [repaged].) 



Gurney, J. H..Jr. (1) Catalogue of the Birds of Norfolk. London, 

 18S4. Svo. pp. 47. (2) On the 'Hairy' Variety of the Moorhen (Gallinula 

 chloropus). (Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Sot.. Ill, pp. 581- 

 5S7O (3) O n the Occurrence of a Flock of the Arctic Blue-throated 

 Warbler (Erithacus suecica) in Norfolk. (Ibid., pp. 597-601.) 



Ingersoll, Ernest. Country Cousins : Short Studies in the Natural 

 History of the United States. New York. 1S84, Svo. pp. 252. Illus- 

 trated. 



Sharpe, R. Bowdler. (1) Notes on Timeliidae. (Notes from the Ley- 

 den Mus., VI, pp. 167-178.) (2) On an Apparently Undescribed Genus 

 [Orthnocichla] of Wrens from Timor. (Ibid., pp. 179, 180.) 



Shufeldt, R. W. Osteology of Numenius longirostris, with Notes upon 

 the Skeletons of other American Limicohe. (Journ. Anat. and Phys., 

 XIX. pp. 51-S2. pll. iv, v. 



