Il6 Rrcent Literature. 



7^/^., XVI, March 13. iSSi, p. b6. — The former '-quite common" ; small 

 flocks of the latter frequent the spruce woods every winter, in Point 

 Pleasant Park, Halifax peninsula. 



167. The ''Crane's Back" By J. C. Merrill. Ibid., XVI, March 10, 

 1S81, p. 105. — A Cree Indian account of the napite-shu-utle. a bird said to 

 migrate by taking passage on the backs of Cranes. The bird is believed 

 to be a Grebe. 



168. A Hawk new to the United States. By Robert Ridgway. Ibid., 



XVI, Apr. 14, 18S1, 206.— From Oyster Bay, Fla., provisionally referred 

 to Biiteo fuliginosits. (See this Bull., VI, Oct. 1881, p. 207.) 



169. Ttie Pine Grosbeak. By Chas. E. Ingalls. Ibid., XVI. Apr. 14, 

 1881, pp. 206, 207. — Observations on its habits in winter in Massachusetts. 



170. Our utiigue- Spoon-billed Sa?idpiJ>er, EurinorJiynchiis pygmcetis 

 (Linn.). By Tarleton H. Bean. Ibid., XVI, Apr. 21. 1881, p. 225.— 

 Brief general history of the species, with record of its capture at Plover 

 Bay, Eastern Siberia, and Point Barrow, Alaska. 



171. Domesticated ^uail. By Henry Benbrook. Ibid., XVI, May 5, 

 18S1, p. 266. — Ortyx virginianus successfully reared in captivity to the 

 third generation. Believes that under favorable circumstances they could 

 be bred "as easily as Turkeys." 



172. Great Carolina Wren. By William Dutcher. Ibid., XVI, July 

 14, 1881, p. 473. — Record of its capture at Greenville, N. J., within four 

 miles of New Yoi'k City. 



173. The Rail we shoot. [By George B Grinnell.] Ibid.. XVII, Sept. 

 22, 1881, pp. 146, 147. — Classification, diagnoses and habitats of the Ral- 

 lidcE of the United States. 



174. Range and Rotary Mo-oeme7tts of LimicolcE. By W. Hapgood. Ibid., 

 XVII, Oct. 20, 1S81, pp. 225-228. — An important and suggestive paper on 



the migrations and range of American Limicolce. The greater part of the 

 species of this group are noticed at length. The paper relates especially 

 to the winter haunts of these birds, and the conclusion is pretty fairly 

 sustained that many of them pass beyond the tropics to winter in the 

 Southern Hemisphere. 



175. Migration of Shore Birds. By M. H. Simons. Ibid., XVII, 

 Nov. 10, 1881, p. 288. — Apropos of Mr. Hapgood's paper (see No. 174). 

 the writer calls attention to the fact that many kinds of Shore Birds win- 

 ter in Florida and the other Gulf States. "Didymus." under the same 

 caption, has some pertinent suggestions in reference to Mr. Hapgood's 

 paper. 



176. The Herring Gull and the Ring-bill on Georgian Bay. By Rev. 

 J. A. Langille. Ibid., XVII, Nov. 17, 1S81, p. 307.— On the habits, etc., 

 of these species at their breeding haunts in Georgian Bay. 



177. Beechnuts and Woodpeckers. By C. Hart Merriam, M. D. Ibid., 



XVII, Dec. I. 1881, p. 347. — A reply to several pseudonymous articles in 

 previous numbers of this journal {Forest and Stream) in reference to the 

 Red-headed Woodpecker's habit of eating beechnuts. Other notes on 

 the same subject, by various contributors, follow in this and succeeding 

 numbers. 



