^"ig.^^^] Recent Literature. 4OI 



Rhoads on the Extinction of the Dickcissel East of the Alleghanies.i — 

 The Black-throated Bunting, or Dickcissel {Etispiza ainericana), for- 

 merly ranged along the Atlantic coast, at least in small numbers, from 

 South Carolina to Maine, and at many points within the area was locally 

 common. Mr. Rhoads here gives good reason for now proclaiming it 

 "a bird of the past," throughout this extensive area. Altogether there 

 is little or nothing to suggest a satisfactory explanation of this decadence. 

 Mr. Rhoads inclines to the belief that the birds have been induced to 

 change their range and join the Mississippi Valley stock, and that they 

 were not exterminated in their former haunts. Whatever the cause, they 

 have certainly gradually and almost wholly disappeared in the East within 

 the last fifty years, — from Massachusetts, Connecticut and eastern New 

 York prior to or soon after 1880, and there appears to be no record of 

 their occurrence in New Jersey or eastern Pennsylvania since 1890. Mr. 

 Rhoads has thus done well to gather up and place collectively on record 

 the history of its decline and disappearance from the Atlantic seaboard, 

 especially as much of the evidence he has here presented was previously 

 unpublished. — J. A. A. 



Silloway's Additional Notes on the Summer Birds of Flathead Lake.'- 

 — As stated in the introduction, the present notes relate to the birds 

 observed at SVvan Lake during the first three weeks of June, 1902, and 

 serve as a supplement to his former paper entitled ' The Summer Birds 

 of Flathead Lake' (see Auk, XIX, 1902, p. 216). The paper is divided 

 into three parts, entitled, respectively, ' Oological Notes' (pp. 295-300), 

 ' Notes on New Birds ' (pp. 301-333), and ' List of Birds ' (pp. 304-308). 

 Under the first heading interesting notes are given on the breeding 

 habits of about twenty species ; under the second about a dozen species 

 are added to the previous list ; the third division is a briefly annotated 

 list of the summer birds of the Flathead Lake region, numbering one 

 hundred and thirty-seven species, and including all the species thus far 

 noted. The five half-tone plates illustrate the physical features sur- 

 rounding Swan Lake. — J. A. A. 



Swarth on the Birds of the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona.^ — The 



1 Exit the Dickcissel — a remarkable Case of Local Extinction. By 

 Samuel N. Rhoads. Svo. pp 12. Reprinted from Cassinia, 1903, pp. 17-28, 

 repaged, and without indication of its original place of publication. 



2 Additional Notes to Summer Birds of Flathead Lake, with special ref- 

 erence to Swan Lake. By Perley Milton Silloway. With introduction by 

 Morton J. Elrod. Bulletin University of Montana, Biol. Series No. 6, Svo, pp. 

 289-308, pll. liii-lvii, 1903. 



^ Birds of the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona. By Harry S. Swarth. Pacific 

 Coast Avifauna No. 4. Cooper Ornithological Club of California. Los 

 Angeles, California. Published by the Club, April 15, 1904. — Large Svo, 

 pp. 70. 



