212 Recent Ldterature. [April 



Poliopiila, Sporophila, Catamenia, Phrygilus, Cyanerpes, Iridosornis, and 

 Cacicus. The northern races of Phrygilus unicolor are considered at 

 length.— W. S. 



Coale on the Birds of Lake County, lU.i — The separate before us 

 constitutes Chai)ter XIV of a history of Lake County pubHshed in 1912, 

 pp. 353-370, although this fact does not appear on the cover. It consists 

 of a list of 269 species with brief annotations and records of rare occurrences 

 and forms a very satisfactory county list. — W. S. 



Roberts' 'The Winter Bird -Life of Minnesota.' ^ — This brochure 

 is Dr. Roberts' first publication since occupying the position of ornitholo- 

 gist in the department of animal biology in the University of Minnesota 

 and of the Natural History Survey. It is an excellent summary of the winter 

 bird life of Minnesota, illustrated by a number of half-tones from photo- 

 graphs and a colored plate of the Evening Grosbeak. The species are 

 grouped under the following heads. Permanent Residents 35; Winter Visi- 

 tants 17; "Half Hardy" 12; Accidental 27, while in a summary at the end 

 they are all arranged systematically in one nominal list. It would seem 

 that the reverse of this method would render the list more easy of consulta- 

 tion, as it is much easier to find a species in a single list than to hunt for it 

 in four, while nominal lists under the above headings could be better con- 

 trasted. However this may be a matter of opinion and in no way detracts 

 from the excellence of Dr. Roberts' work. He has brought together a mass 

 of valuable data and his list should be of much assistance to the ornithol- 

 ogist, the Audubon Society and the conservationist. The same paper 

 without the summary and colored plate appeared a few weeks earlier in 

 ' Fins, Feathers and Fur, ' the official bulletin of the Minnesota Game and 

 Fish Department, for December, 1915. — W. S. 



Kellogg's Report upon Mammals and Birds of Trinity, Siskiyou 

 and Shasta Cos., Cal.^ — This report deals with the results of two trips 

 into the Trinity, Salmon and Scott Mountains of northern California 

 undertaken during February-March, and June-August, 1911, by Misses 

 Annie M. Alexander and Louise Kellogg. A collection of 449 birds and 976 

 mammals was obtained which has been presented by Miss Alexander to the 

 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the University of California. The 

 greater part of the report treats of the mammals, but there is a briefly 

 annotated list of the birds, with dates and localities where they were 

 observed. This comprises 95 species. 



1 Birds of Lake County. By Henry Kelso Coale. [1912]. 



- The Winter Bird-Life of Minnesota. Being an annotated list of birds that have been 

 found within the State of Minnesota during the winter months. By Thomas S. Roberta, 

 M. D. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey of Minn. Zool. Div. Occasional Papers: Number 1, 

 pp. 1-20, pi. r February, 1916. 



' Report upon Mammals and Birds found in Portions of Trinity, Siskiyou and Shasta 

 Counties, California. By Louise Kellogg. Univ. of Cal. Publ. in Zool., Vol. 12, No. 13, 

 pp. 335-398, plates 15-18. January 27, 1916 



