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a supplement to the same author's excellent " Revised List of Cincinnati 

 Birds," publishedin 1879 (cf. this Bulletin, Vol. IV, pp. 112, 113j. They 

 add five species to the number there given, and bring the total thus far iden- 

 tified to 263. They relate to 40 species, giving records of further captures 

 of many of the rarer ones, and of the nesting, etc. of others. Among the 

 points of special interest are the capture of two specimens (male and female) 

 of Kirtland's Warbler (Dendroeca kirtlandi) near Cleveland, May 4 and 

 12, 1880, and the replacement of a colony of several hundred Rough- 

 winged and Cliff Swallows, formerly nesting about the piers and under the 

 floors of a bridge, by " that much to be regretted addition to our fauna," 

 the House Sparrow. The paper is preceded by Dr. Langdon's description 

 of a new species of Helminthopharja, which, through the author's kindness, 

 is reproduced, with the accompanying plate, in the present number of this 

 Bulletin. — J. A. A. 



Stearns's List of the Birds of Fishkill, New York. * — This is 

 a briefly annotated list of about 130 species, based on ten months' observa- 

 tions by the author in the vicinity of Fishkill, supplemented by information 

 received from Messrs. Peter de Nottbeck and John Lynch. As the author 

 has judiciously endeavored to give only what he " knows," without attempt- 

 ing to " theorize," the list, though very incomplete, is doubtless trust- 

 worthy so far as it goes, although its raison d'etre is not obvious. — J. A. A. 



Harvie-Brown on the Effects of an unusually severe Win- 

 ter UPON Scottish Birds. — In the last number of the Bulletin (Vol. V, 

 pp. 175-177) we had the pleasure of directing attention to the systematic 

 way in which certain British ornithologists, especially Messrs. Harvie- 

 Brown and Cordeaux, are gathering data respecting the migratory move- 

 ments of European birds. But it appears by the paper f now under no- 

 tice that Scottish birds are subject to a close surveillance at other than the 

 migratory periods. The winter of 1878- 79 proved of unusual severity, 

 and its effect upon animal life, and especially upon bird life, attracted the 

 attention of many careful observers, Mr. Harvie-Brown giving a list of 

 more than a dozen published papers relating to the subject. These, with 

 his own observations and the collected notes of his many correspondents, 

 form the basis of the paper above cited, which gives first a general and 

 statistical resume of the weather, followed by a detailed report upon its 

 effects on animal life, nearly fifty pages being devoted to birds. It 



* List of Birds of Fishkill on Hudson, N. Y. By Winfred A. Stearns. Svo. 

 pp. 16, without date or publisher's impress. Eeceived July, 1880. 



t Ornithological Journal of the Winter of 1878-79, with Collected Notes 

 regarding its Eli'ects upon Animal Life, including Remarks on tlie Migration of 

 Birds in the Autumn of 1878 and the Spring of 1879. By Mr. John A. 

 Harvie-Brown, F. Z. S., M. B. 0. U. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, 1879, 

 pp. 123 - 190. 



