iSSs-j Recent Literature. 211 



Hydrochelidon lariformis and Alle nigricans. The Cormorant and 

 Short-tailed Terns mentioned, and perhaps some of the other instances, 

 appear to have been previously recorded. (See below, No. 801, where H. 

 celata and R. americana are expunged from the list.) 



798. Stones placed in pine-trees by birds. By C. R. Orcutt. Ibid., p. 

 305. — Stones substituted in some cases for acorns by the acorn-storing 

 Woodpeckers in California. 



799. Osteology of the Cormorant By Theodore Gill. Ibid., p. 404. — 

 Refers to a special paper by Yarrell on the subject, in which the 'occi- 

 pital style' of Shufeldt and Jeffries is called the 'xiphoid bone.' 



Soo. Osteology of the Cormorant. By J. Amory Jeffries and R. W. 

 Shufeldt. Ibid., p. 274. — Comment on Dr. Gill's note. (See last title.) 



Soi. Rare Vermont birds. By Francis H. Herrick. Ibid., p. 303. — 

 States that Recurvirostra americana and Helminlhophaga celata were 

 given in his former note (see above No. 797) on this subject "on mistaken 

 evidence." 



Soj. Cones s Key to North American birds. [By J. A. Allen.] Ibid.. 

 Vol. IV, pp. 86, 87.— Notice of the work. 



803. Increase in grozvth of young robins. By Charles S. Plumb. Ibid., 



P- 159- 



804. The American ornithologists' union. Ibid., pp. 374-376. — Report 

 of the meeting of 1884. 



S05. The bird collection of the U. S. national museum. Bv Robert 

 Ridgway. Ibid., pp. 496, 497. — Its history and present status. 



'Science Record.' Vol. II (closing, we are sorry to say, the short-lived 

 career of this excellent journal, 'worthy of a better fate'), contains the 

 following (Nos. 806-811) : 



806. The American Ornithologists' Union. By E[lIiott]. C[oues]. 

 Science Record, II, pp. 13, 14. — Account of the founding of the A. O. U. 



807. The Blue Grosbeak. By G. E. Manigault, M. D. Ibid., pp. 33, 

 34. — 'Quite abundant' near Charleston, S. C. Short account of its habits, 

 and record of the capture of two specimens of Swainson's Warbler in 

 'August last' (1S83!) The latter proves to have been based on an erro- 

 neous identification (see Auk, II, p. 105). 



805. Chuck-zvilVs Widow. By Arthur T. Wayne, Ibid. , pp. 82, 83. — 

 Account of its habits as observed at Charleston, S. C 



809. Classification of Birds. By Leonhard Stejneger. Ibid., pp. 154, 



155- 



810. Note on the Bronzed Cow-Bird. By Geo. F. Gaumer. Ibid., 

 pp. 262, 263. — Description of Molothrns atneus, and account of its habits 

 as observed in Yucatan. 



811. The English Sparrow. Ibid., pp.264, 2f >5- —A reproduction of 

 a humorous, erroneous, and unfair newspaper report of the Report of the 

 A. O. U. Committee on the European House Sparrow. 



812. Ornithological Field Notes, with one Addition to the Cincinnati 

 Avian Fauna. By William Hubbell Fisher. Journ. Cincinnati Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., VII, No. i* April, 1884, pp. 10-13.— The species added is 



