118 Recent Literature. L.Jau. 



Kellogg on Winter Birds from Trinity and Shasta Counties, 

 California. 1 — Miss Kellogg accompanied Miss Alexander on a Februarj' 

 collecting trip into the mountains of Trinity County in the interests of the 

 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the University of California, and in 

 this paper presents field notes upon the thirty-eight species observed. 

 Flocks of Bohemian Waxwings were encountered at Tower House and 

 Helena, while Song Sparrows collected at the former station indicate, 

 according to Miss Kellogg, that the race Melospiza melodia morphna is 

 identical with rufina; while " there is intergradation between montana and 

 rufina, the name merrilli having been applied to some such intergradient 

 form."— W. S. 



Wood on Birds of the Charity Islands, Michigan.^ — Mr. Wood had 

 charge of the vertebrate zoology on an expedition to the Charity Islands, 

 Lake Huron, in the interests of the University of Michigan; which was 

 made possible by the generosity of Hon. W. B. Mershon. The present 

 paper gives an annotated fist of the birds observed. Notes on 162 species 

 are included, but as field work did not begin until August 16, satisfactory 

 data upon the breeding species was not obtained and the annotations relate 

 largely to the fall migration. — W. S. 



Swarth on a New Hairy Woodpecker from Southeastern Alaska.^ — 



Mr. Oberholser's recent revision of the Hairy Woodpeckers does not seem 

 to have exhausted the possible races of this bird, in spite of the abundant 

 material at his command. A series of skins from " the islands of the 

 Alexander Archipelago and a narrow strip of mainland coast lying west of 

 the coast range and south of the Taku River," represent, according to 

 Mr. Swarth, a race differing from both Dryobates villosus picoideus and 

 D. IK harrisii, which he names D. v. sitkensis. — W. S. 



Report of the Meriden Bird Club.^ — This attractive brochure is well 

 calculated to arouse interest in practical protection and study of wild 

 birds, and illustrates what a local Bird Club, or branch of the Audubon 

 Society, may accomplish under efficient direction. Various methods of 

 attracting birds by establishing feeding places, shelters, bird boxes, etc., 

 are considered and illustrated, as well as the history and activities of the 

 Club.— W. S. 



1 A Collection of Winter Birds from Trinity and Shasta Counties. California. 

 The Condor, XIII, pp. 118-121, July, 1911. 



2 The Results of the Mershon E.xpedition to the Charity Islands, Lake Huron. 

 Birds. By N. A. Wood. Wilson Bulletin, .luly, 1911, pp. 78-112, with map. 



3 Description of a new Hairy Woodpecker from southeastern Alaska. By H. S. 

 Swarth. University of Californi.i Publications in Zoology, Vol. 7, No. 9, pp. 313- 

 318. Published October 9, 1911. 



4 First Report of the Meriden Bird Club, 1911. Boston, Mass. [published by the 

 Ckib, Meriden, N. H.] 8vo., pp. 67. IS half-tone plates. 



