iSS6.1 Recent Literature. 477 



1059. Diurnal Rapacious Birch. ( With special reference to Chester 

 County, Pa.) By B. Harry Warren, M.D. Agricidture of Pennsylvania, 

 1883 (18S4), pp. 96-112. — A very important paper on the food of various 

 species of Hawks, with report of numerous examinations of the contents 

 of stomachs. 



1060. Blackbirds' Food. Facts from the Diary of a Field- Working 

 Naturalist, Shoxving the Piscivorous Habit of tzvo Species of the Genus 

 .^uiscalus. By B. H. Warren, M.D., Ornithologist of the Board [of Agri- 

 culture]. Ibid., Rep. for 1885 (1886), pp. 157-159. — Statistics of examina- 

 tions of stomachs of numerous specimens of ^uiscalus purpurcus and 

 «^. major. 



1061. Birds' Food. By B. H. Warren, M.D. Ibid., pp. 150-156. — On 

 the food of the Turdus migratorius and Mimus carolinctisis. 



1062. The Co?nmon Croiv Blackbird — Purple Grackle. ^uiscalus pur- 

 pureus {Bartr.). By B. Harry Warren, M.D. Ibid., 1883 (1884), pp. 

 214-217. — On its habits and food. 



1063. Die Purpurschxualbe {Progne subis Baird, Purple Martin). 

 By H. Nehrling. Der Zoologische Garten, Jahrg. XXVI, No. i, 18S5, pp. 

 22-27. — History of tlie species. 



1064. Der Griinsdnger (^Dendroica virens Baird. Black-throated 

 Green Warbler). By H. Nehrling. Ibid., No. 3, pp. 82-85. 



1065. Der Heckensdnger, Dendroica pensylvanica Baird, Chestnut- 

 sided Warbler. By H. Nehrling. Ibid., No. 6, pp. 185, 186. 



1066. Der Wurmsdnger, Helmitherus Termivorus Bonap., Worm- 

 eating Warbler. By H. Nehrling. Ibid., No. 7, pp. 214-215. 



1067. Der Blaufliigelige Buschsdnger, Helminthophaga pinus Baird. 

 Blue-ivinged Telloxv Warbler. By H. Nehrling. Ibid., No. 12, pp. 364-366. 



lo6S. Ein kalifornischer Charaktervogel. Von H. Nehrling. Ibid., 

 Jahrg. XXVn, No. 3, 1886, pp. 87-90. — An account of the Phainopepla 

 (P. nitetts). 



The present index to minor papers and notes on North American birds 

 was begun in January, iSSo, in the first number of the fifth volume of the 

 'Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club,' with the heading 'Minor Or- 

 nithological Papers,' with the purpose of giving short notices or abstracts 

 of the more important papers and notes relating to American birds, 

 appearing in publications not usually conveniently accessible to working 

 ornithologists, in continuation of Dr. Coues's 'List of Faunal Publications 

 relating to North American Ornithology,' published in his 'Birds of the 

 Colorado Valley' in 1878. The scope of the index was at first limited to 

 notes or papers of special value, particularly those having the character of 

 local lists, or bearing upon the migration or distribution of species, ex- 

 cluding, however, such as were anonymous, or pseudonymous. Later the 

 scope was enlarged to include everything worth citing relating to North 

 American birds, wherever published, unless appearing in journals strictly 

 devoted to ornithology. The compiler is aware that the record must be 

 far from complete, particularly as regards newspapers, but it is believed 



