1887. 1 Recent Literature. 2 C I 



Of most of the species he has given very full and interesting notes of 

 (heir habits. Mr. Wells has proved himself to be a most diligent collector 

 and careful investigator, the result being, besides the greatly increased 

 number of birds added to the fauna of Grenada, the discovery of three 

 species new to science and of eleven species not before noted from the 

 Lesser Antilles." 



Mr. Wells's very full and interesting biographical notes are often supple- 

 mented by technical remarks by Mr. Lawrence, including the description 

 of one new species {Blacicus flaviventris) , and of the male of Engyptila 

 zvellsi. Mr. Lawrence has since described a fourth species (Margarops ul- 

 biventris),* making twelve species described by Mr. Lawrence from collec- 

 tions made by Messrs. Ober and Wells in the Island of Grenada. — J. A. A. 



Ridgway Ornithological Club. — Bulletin No. 2 of this Club, which seems 

 to be in a prosperous state, contains a short history of the Club, by the 

 editor, Geo. L. Toppan, the Constitution and By-Laws, and the following 

 papers: "Notes and Observations on the Ornithology of Corpus Christi 

 and Vicinity, Texas,' by Josiah L. Hancock; an annotated list of 91 species 

 observed from March 16 to April 1, 1884. 'Geographical Variations 

 between Ckondestes grammacus (Say) and Chondestes grammacus strigatus 

 (Swains.)', by II. K. Coale, in which the distinctness of the two forms is 

 maintained. 'List of the Birds found breeding within the corporate limits 

 of Mt. Carmel, Illinois,' by Robert Ridgway, noting 85 species, and con- 

 cluding with a comparison of the breeding birds of that locality and of 

 Washington City. The number of breeders in the vicinity of Mt. Carmel 

 is stated to be 122; of Washington, 106. 'Notes on the Birds of Southern 

 California and Southwestern Arizona,' by G. Frean Morcom ; 139 spp., 

 with extended observations on certain Hummingbirds. ' Ammodramus 

 beldingi Ridgw. (Belding's Marsh Sparrow),' by B. T. Gault, descriptive 

 and biographical. 'A Contribution to our knowledge of Albinism,' by 

 Geo. L. Toppan; discussion of this affection and list of upwards of 150 

 species in which it has been observed. 'Dryobates nuttallii (Gamb.) 

 Nuttall's Woodpecker,' by B. T. Gault; biographical. 'Description of a 

 new species and subspecies of the genus Dendroica,' by H. K. Coale. 

 The latter is D. cestiva morcomi, p. 82, from the western province of 

 North America; the former is D. dugest, p. 83, from Guanajuato, Mexico. 

 — A list of officers, etc., closes this interesting Bulletin. — E. C. 



Publications Received. — Blasius, Rudolf. (1) Der Wanderzug der 

 Tannenheher durch Europa im Herbste 1885 und Winter 1885-86. Eine 

 monographische Studie. (Ornis, Jahr. II, 4 Heft.) 



Carpenter, F. H. A record of the breeding of Vireo solitarius, Spiza 

 americana, and Dendroica cserulescens in Bristol County, Mass. (Publ. 

 Bristol Co. Orn. Club, No. 3, 1887.) 



Clark, Hubert L. The Birds of Amherst and Vicinity, including nearly 

 the whole of Hampshire County, Mass. Amherst, Mass., 1S87, Svo. pp. 56. 



*Description of a New Species of Thrush from the Island of Grenada, West Indies 

 By George N. Lawrence. Ann. New York Acad. Sci., Vol. IV, 1886, pp. 23, 24. 



