446 



Nolcs and JVezus. [October 



A nearly complete list of" Mr. Beckham's ornithological papers is sub- 

 joined herewith : 



Short Notes on the Birds of Bayou Sara, Louisiana. Ihdl. \iiif. Orn. 

 Club, Vol. VII, 18S2, pp. i59-i^\v 



The Black-throated Bunting in Florida. Bull. Niiii. Urn. Club. Vol. 

 VII, 1882, p. 250. 



A List of the Birds of Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky, yoiaii. 

 Ciiicinnaii Soc. Nat. Hist.. Vol. VI, pp. 136-147. July. 1SS3. 



List of the Birds of Nelson County [Kentucky]. Kentucky Geologiral 

 Survey. Sept., 1S85. 



Notes on Some of the Birds of Pueblo, Colorado. T/ic Auk. Vol. II. 



1885, pp. 139-144- 



A White-winged Junco in Maryland. The Auk, Vol. II. 1SS5, p. 306. 

 Remarks on the Plumage of Regulus calendula. Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mua., Vol. VIII, No. 40, Dec. 7. 1885, pp. 625-62S. 



Changes in the Plumage of Geothlypis tric/tas. The Auk, Vol. III. 



1886. pp. 279-281. 



First Plumage of the Summer Tanager. The Auk. Vol. III. 1SS6. p. 

 487. [Here described for the first time.] 



The Red-breasted Nuthatch in Kentucky in Summer. The Auk. Vol. 

 Ill, 1886, p. 4S9. 



Scarcity of Adult Birds in Autumn. The Auk, Vol. IV. 1887, pp. 79-So. 



Additional Notes on the Birds of Pueblo County, Colorado. The Auk, 

 Vol. IV, 1887, pp. 120-125. [The list published in a previous number 

 (Vol. II, pp. 139-144) increased from 91 to 112, and " additional notes' 

 given on 29 species mentioned in the first list. J 



Additions to the Avifauna of Bayou Sara, La. The Auk. Vol. IV, 1S87. 

 pp. 299-306. [Very interesting remarks on the birds of that locality, 

 including 27 additions to an earlier list (Bull. Nuti. Oru. Club, Vol. VII, 

 1882, pp. 159-165-] 



Occurrence of the Florida Blue Jay {Cya/iocitta cristata Jiurincola) in 

 Southwestern Texas. The Auk, Vol. V, 1888. p. 112. 



A Philadelphia Vireo and a Cobweb. The Auk, Vol. \'. 1888, p. 115. 

 [The Vireo entangled in and held fast by the cobweb.]— R. R. 



Philip Henry Gosse, F. R. S., well known as an English naturalist of 

 note, died in London, August 27, at the age of seventy-eight years. He 

 spent much of his early life in America, visiting Newtbundland when 

 seventeen years of age, and spending many subsequent years here, in 

 Lower Canada, and the United States, and later in Jamaica. Besides 

 publishing many standard works and papers on British marine zoology, 

 he was the author of several works of travel rehiting to the natural history 

 of the countries he visited, including his ' Canadian Naturalist' (1840), 

 'Letters from Alabama on Natural History' (1859), and ' A Naturalist's 

 Sojourn in Jamaica' (1851). He was also the author of 'The Birds of 

 Jamaica' (1847), ^"'^ ' IHu^^trations of the Birds of Jamaica' (1S49), works 

 giving him an established position as an ornithologist, besides various 



