112 Recent Literature. 



Minot's Diary of a Bird* — This entertaining and pleasantly Avrit- 

 ten piece of bird-gossip is represented to be a translation of a " Diary " 

 of a " Black-throated Green AVarbler," and recounts, among other things, 

 the doings of " a grand mass meeting " of the birds to discuss " The 

 Destruction and Extermination of Birds ; how caused, and how to be 

 prevented," in which various members of the great bird convention relate 

 their grievances. At this point of the narrative the " translator " takes 

 the opportunity to interpolate statistics relating to the destruction of 

 Game Birds and Water Fowl for the market, and to suggest more strin- 

 gent legislation for the protection of these and other classes of birds. 

 The object of this attractive little brochure is to awaken popular interest 

 in the genei-al subject of the better protection of our birds, not only 

 against the professional market gunner, but from their wholesale destruc- 

 tion to meet the demands of the milliner. — J. A. A. 



Minor Ornithological Papers.! — Volume III of "Field and 

 Forest " (July, 1877 -June, 1878), — the last volume to be issued, we regret 

 to say, of this vahiable journal, — contains the following : — 



19. Mrs. Maxwell's Colorado Museum. — Additional Notes. By Robert 

 Ridgway. Field and Forest, Vol. Ill, p. 11. — On specimens of /wnco 

 caniceps and /. a?inec?ens, exhibiting unusual variations of plumage. 



20. Arricals of Birds. By W. L. Jones. Ihid., pp. 17, 18. — Records 

 the arrival in spring of various species of birds at Lebanon, 111. 



21. [^Hibernalion of Swallows.'] Ibid., pp. 35, 36. — Communication by 

 Robert R. McLeod covering statements hy John F. Goss and A. S. Free- 

 man regarding the discovery of Bank Swallows hibernating in mud and 

 in a hollow tree. 



22. Field Notes on some of the Birds of the District of Columhia. By P. 

 L. Jouy. Ibid., pp. 51,52. — Nofes on six species, among them Dendrozca 

 ccerulea (a specimen seen), Chondestes grammica (two seen and a third 

 shot), and Pipilo erythrophthalmus (two specimens with white spots on the 

 scapulars, thus approaching var. arcticus). 



23. Notes on the Habits of the Green-backed California Humming-Bird, 

 Selasphorus ulleni, Ilensh. By H. W. Henshaw. Ibid., pp. 95-98. — A 

 detailed account of the htibits of this species, based on information re- 

 ceived from C. A. Allen, of Nicasio, Cal. 



24. Natural History of the Islands of Lake Erie. By H. H. Ballou. 

 Ibid., pp. 135 - 1 37. — Enumerates about thirty-eight species of birds, most 

 of them marked as breeding. 



25. Additions to the List of District Birds. By V/. F. Roberts. Ibid., 

 p. 172. — Adds Macrorhamphus griseus, and states the whole number of 

 species known from the District of Columbia to be 242. 



* The Diary of a Bird. By H. D. Minot. Boston : A. Williams & Co. 

 1880. Svo, pp. 38, cuts. 



t Continued from Vol. V, p. 46. 



