iSSs-] Recent Literature. 'hi 7) 



glaucium. Various other species are mentioned more briefly, the paper 

 altogether forming an important review of the Anatidse of Ottawa. 



973. Report of the Ornithological and Oological Branch [of the Otta- 

 wa Field Naturalists,' 1 Club']. By George R. White and W. L. Scott. 

 Ibid., pp. 81-87. — Thirteen species are added to the List of the Birds of 

 Ottawa by Messrs. White and Scott published in No. 3 of the 'Transac- 

 tions' of the Club (see Bull. N. O. C, VIII, pp. 55 and 115), and there are 

 notes on a few species previously recorded, with dates of the arrival of 

 birds in tbe spring of 1882. Also a list of errata for the 'List' previously 

 published. 



974. Report of the Ornithological and Oological Branch [of the Ottawa 

 Field-Naturalists' Club] for the season of 1883. By John Macoun, Geo. 

 R. White, and W. L. Scott. Ibid.. II. No. 1, 18S4, pp. 141-147.— Besides 

 interesting notes on several species of birds previously recorded, 17 species 

 are added. There is also a list of arrivals for the spring of 1883. 



975. Washington Crows. Anon. Atlantic Monthly, Vol. LIU, No. 

 318, April, 1884, pp. 580, 581. — A graphic account of their flight in the 

 morning from their roosting-place to their feeding grounds, and their 

 return at night. 



976. [The Sense of Taste in Birds.] By G. F. Waters. Proc. Boston 

 Soc. Nat. Hist.. XXII, 1883 (1884), pp. 433, 434. — In the common fowl 

 and some young Hawks. 



977. On the Migration of Birds in the Spring and Autumn of 1884. 

 By J. A. Harvie Browne. F. R. S., F. Z. S. Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., V, 

 No. 14. Aug. 7, 18S5, pp. 221-224. — On the influencing causes of the ex- 

 tensive migration of Gulls to the British coast in iSS4-'S5. 



978. Our Home Feathered Tribe. By B. H. Warren. West Chester , 

 Pa., Local News (newspaper). Sept. 3, 1SS5. — A briefly annotated list of 

 the summer birds of Chester County, Pennsylvania. (See also an adden- 

 dum to the list in the same newspaper of Sept. 10. 1885. ) 



■The Zoologist' (London). Vols. VI-IX ( 1S82 to Sept. 1885), contains 

 the following (Nos. 979-1002) relating especially to North American 

 bird 6. 



979. European Birds observed in North America. — By Percy E. Freke. 

 Zoologist, 3d Series, VI, Jan. 1SS2, p. 21. — Corrections to his article on 

 this subject in the ' Zoologist' for Sept. 1881 (cf Bull. N. O. C, VIII, p. 

 [15) Phvlloscopus borealis and Pa rus ductus found breeding in Alaska, 

 and Mareca peuelope in the Aleutian Islands; the Iceland Falcon obtained 

 from Labrador. 



980. Supposed Occurrence of the Hairy Woodpecker [Picus villosus] 

 in Oxfordshire. By Oliver V. Aplin. Ibid., Feb. 18S2, p. 69. — A speci- 

 men is mentioned alleged to have been killed about five years previously 

 near Chipping Norton, but doubt exists as to whether the skin examined 

 was not of foreign origin. 



981. Rusty Crackle and /',/l/t/s's Gray Shrike in Wales. By Henry 

 Seebobm. Ibid.. March, 1882. p. 109.— A specimen of Scolecofhagus fer- 

 rugiueus killed at Cardiff, Oct. 4, 1881. recorded, forming the first British 

 record of the species. 



