540 REPORT OF STATE GEOLOGIST. 



EVERMANN, BARTON W. Birds of Carroll County, Indiana. The Auk, 

 Vol. V, 1888, pp. 344-351; continued in Vol. VI, 1889, pp. 22-30. 



BUTLER, AMOS W. Notes concerning albinism among birds. Journ. 

 Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., Jan. 1, 1888, pp. 214-216. 



NOE, FLETCHER M. Do English Sparrows protect trees from insect rav- 

 ages? Indianapolis News, June 15, 1888. 



BLATCHLEY, W. S. "A Gnatcatcher's Strategy." Audubon Magazine, 

 March, 1888. Describes a two-story nest of the Blue-gray Gnat- 

 catcher, Polioptila ccendea (Linn.), taken near Bloomington. A 

 Cowbird had deposited an egg in the nest proper and the second 

 story was built over the egg. 



WEST, F. M. A Cross-billed Woodpecker. Ornithologist and Oologist, 

 Vol. XIII, p. 95, June, 1888. Specimen of Melanerpes carolinensis 

 noted from Greensburg, Indiana. 



TROLLER, JAS. S. Correspondence from (Greensburg) Indiana. The 

 Bay State Oologist, Vol. I, No. 6, June, 1888, p. 52. Account of 

 nesting of a pair of Bluebirds in the sand pump of a well-driller's 

 outfit. Reprinted in the Ornithologist and Oologist Annual, Vol. 

 I, No. 1, January, 1889, p. 29. 



HANGER, O. P. Black Vulture (Catharista atrata) in Orange County, 

 Indiana. The Curlew, Orleans, Indiana, Vol. I, No. 3, December, 



1888, p. 35. 



1889. 



LANGDON, F. W. , M. D. On the occurrence of large numbers ef six- 

 teen species of birds. Journ. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. XII, 



1889, pp. 57-63. Notes the unusual abundance of the Rose-breasted 

 Grosbeak at Brookville, Indiana, in the spring of 1885. 



EVERMANN, B. W. The Wood Ibis of Indiana. The Auk, Vol. VI, 

 1889, pp. 186-187. 



RIDGWAY, ROBERT. The Ornithology of Illinois. Natural History Sur- 

 vey of Illinois. State Laboratory of Natural History, S. A. Forbes, 

 Director. Part I, Descriptive Catalogue, by Robert Ridgway, Vol. 

 ^ I, Springfield, 111., 1889, pp. 520+ VIII, pis. XXXII. The present 

 volume ends with Columbae. Contains many references to Indiana 

 birds. 



BARROWS, WALTER B. The English Sparrow (Passer domesticm) in 

 North America, especially in its relation to agriculture. Prepared 

 under the directions of Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Ornithologist, by 

 Walter B. Barrows, Assistant Ornithologist. Bulletin No. 1, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, Division of Economic Onithology and 

 Mammalogy, Washington, 1889, pp. 405 and map. A number of 

 Indiana observations noted. 



