1 91 8.] Recently published Ornithological Works. 515 



subject which has received much more attention in America 

 than in Europe, and deserves further study. The second 

 contribution deals with the singing o£ birds in their 

 winter quarters, and on migration as observed in central 

 Italy. 



Finally, Capt. Hugh S. Gladstone presents us with a 

 copious biographical and bibliographical study of John 

 Hunt (1777-1842), a Norwich ornithologist as well as 

 stationer, schoolmaster, engineer, and taxidermist, who 

 migrated to America, where he died. He was the author 

 of ' British Ornithology,' an unfinished work and now one 

 of tlie rarest of bird-books, only five copies of which are 

 known to Mr. Mullens. 



Cassinia. 



[Cassinia. A Bird Annual. Proceedings of the Delaware Valley 

 Ornithological Club. No. xxi. for 1917. Philadelphia, 1918.] 



The last number of ' Cassinia ' has as a frontispiece a 

 portrait of the late Mr. Samuel Wright and a eulogistic 

 biography of this promising young Pliiladelphian ornitho- 

 logist, who died after an attack of pneumonia early last 

 year, at the age of 41, by Mr. Witmer Stone. During the 

 earlier part of his life he worked with Mr. Stone at the 

 valuable collection of birds belonging to the National 

 Academy of Sciences ; later on he entered business, but 

 always kept up his love of birds, and contributed several 

 articles to 'Cassinia.' 



An article by Mr. T. D. Carter deals with the summer 

 birds of the attractive Pocono Lake region up the Delaware 

 River, where many birds not found in the plains country 

 round Philadelphia breed. 



It is a remarkable fact that the Evening Grosbeak 

 (Hesperiphona v. vespei'tina), which breeds in the pine- 

 forests of the central parts of the North American con- 

 tinent, has of late years extended its winter wandering to 

 the Eastern sea-board States, where formerly it was prac- 

 tically unknown, and Mr. S. Scorville contributes a pleasant 

 account of his meetings with this bird in the winter months 



