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May 22. Black-poll Warblers, very abundant from this date till June 2. 
« «Connecticut Warbler ( Geothlypfis agil’s), 1 male taken. 
ot Phen tH ee Ms ag 1 male taken. 
“24. Tennessee Warbler (Helminthophila peregrina), 1 female taken. 
«Connecticut Warbler (Geothlypis agilis), 1 male taken. 
‘ 26. Black-poll Warbler (Dexdroica striata), 1 female taken. 
“* 27. Connecticut Warbler (Geothlypis agilis), 2 males seen. 
PAS es as es ‘¢ 1 female taken. 
331340) s ue st ‘¢ 1 female seen. 
“© «Mourning Warbler (Geothlypis philadelphia), 1 male seen. 
June 1. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (Emfidonax flaviventris), 1 temale 
taken. 
June 2. Orchard Oriole (/cterws spurzus), 1 male seen. 
oe Tas as a uO a 1 male taken and another 
male seen. 
June 9. Orchard Oriole (Jcterus spurius), 2 males seen. 
July 5. o us as i a pair nesting. 
Respecting the above, the records for Dendrozca discolor and D. 
kirtland? are the first, so far as I can ascertain, for this locality; and 
Icterus spurius, while recorded once or twice before from as far east as 
this in Canada, I believe this to be the first record of its nesting. — 
I. HuGHES SAMUEL, Center Island, Toronto, Canada. 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Beyer’s ‘ The Avifauna of Louisiana.’ } — This is the first attempt at an 
enumeration of the birds of the State of Louisiana, and is therefore a 
most welcome contribution to our knowledge of the distribution of the 
birds of the Gulf Coast. It is the result, the author tells us, ‘‘ of personal 
observation and collecting during fully sixteen years within the limits 
of our State. In the pursuit of the study of ornithology I have visited 
nearly every section of the State at different seasons of the year, and in 
this way learned to understand the variation of bird-life effected by the 
} Louisiana Herpetology, with a Check-list of the Batrachians and Reptiles 
of the State, and the Avifauna of Louisiana, with an Annotated List of the 
Birds of the State. By George E. Beyer, Tulane University. Reprinted 
from the Proceedings of the Louisiana Society of Naturalists, 1897-1899. 
New Orleans, La., 1900. (Birds, pp. 1-45 of reprint.) 
