Recently published Ornithological JVorks. 563 



records from the writings of the Jesuit Fatliers and others 

 referring to many of the United States and to Canada; the 

 second records the failure of the attempts to discover living 

 examples of tlie bird by the offer of prizes ; the third repeats 

 Thoreau's information from his 'Notes on New England 

 Birds/ A translation by S. M. Gronbcrger of a paper from 

 the Swedish by Pehr Kalm, on the " Wdd Pigeons which 

 visit the Southern English Colonies in North America," may 

 be taken in connexion with the others ; for this we are in- 

 debted to Dr. T. Gill, w)io unearthed the Swedish original. 

 These articles lead to several notes in the April number 

 (pp. 259-202). 



Mr. W. Brewster has a most interesting account in the 

 January number of the manner in which tlie nuptial plumes 

 of certain Bitterns are displayed ; while in that of October 

 Dr. J. A. Allen reviews the Third Edition of the A.O.U. 

 Check-list, and in that of January Mr. F. M. Chapman 

 describes and figures in colour a new species of American 

 Hang-nest [Icterus fuertesi) from the Tamesi River in 

 Mexico. 



Of distributional papers there is no lack, that of Mr. J. H. 

 Bowles being of the most general interest, as it deals with 

 the extension of range of certain species on the whole Pacific 

 slope. Others are by Mr. A. H. Howell on the birds of the 

 "sunken lands" of S.E. Missouri ; by Mr. S. S. Visher on 

 those of Harding County, S. Dakota; by Mr. A. A. Saunders 

 on those of Gallatin County, Montana ; by Mr. H. Lacey 

 on those of Kirsville, Texas; by Mr. A. W. Honywill on 

 those of the Lake Region of Minnesota ; and by Mr. J. C. 

 Phillips on those of the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico. The 

 last-named describes as new Strix virgata tamaulipensis, 

 Heleodytes narinosus, and Dendrceca cBstiva inedita. 



Several papers are contributed by ladies : Mrs. C. J. Stan- 

 wood writing on nests of Dendrceca magnolia, Mrs. F. M. 

 Bailey on the wild life of an alkaline lake and the Mogollon 

 Mountains in New Mexico, and Mrs. A. R. Sherman on the 

 breeding of Brewster's Warbler in Massachusetts. 



Finally, Mr. W. E. C. Todd discusses fully the Baliaman 



