3 26 Recent Literature. [October 
Stelgidopteryx serripennis. ROUGH-WINGED SwALLow.—Not very 
common in April, 1887, in the vicinity of Tarpon Springs, which is the 
only point where I have observed the species. 
Ampelis cedrorum. CEDAR WAxWwING.—Observed in flocks feeding on 
mulberries in early April, 1887, at Tarpon Springs. At Hog Island, five 
miles south of Anclote Keys and four miles, from the main land, I took 
four from a large flock that were feeding among the mangroves on May 2, 
1888. Mr. Atkins has no records of the species at Punta Rassa or at Key 
West. 
( Zo be continued.) 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Barrows’s Report on the English Sparrow in North America.*—This 
‘Report,’ of about 400 pages, exhaustively treats the subject under consid- 
eration, presenting the evidence, pro and con, at great length, and with 
evident fairness. The work is based primarily on the replies of over 
three thousand observers to circulars of inquiry sent out by the Division 
of Economic Ornithology of the Department of Agriculture, and second- 
arily on previously published evidence, the whole carefully elaborated and 
thoroughly systematized. Part I, entitled ‘Summaries of Evidence — 
Recommendations—Special Reports,’ occupies pp. 17-194, and treats (1) 
of the importation, spread, and increase of the species, and the checks 
upon its increase; (2) of the injuries it inflicts in various ways upon 
fruits, grains, and garden vegetables; (3) its relation to other birds; (4) 
its relation to insects; and contains (5) recommendations for legislation, 
and suggestions to the people at large; (6) a paper by Dr. A. K. 
Fisher, Assistant Ornithologist of the Division, on the destruction of the 
Sparrow by poisons; (7) a paper on trapping Sparrows (illustrated), by 
Mr. W. T. Hill; and (8) a history of the English Sparrow and European 
Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) at Saint Louis, Mo., by Mr. Otto Wid- 
mann. This Part also includes a paper of 20 pages by Prof. C. V. Riley, 
Entomologist of the Department of Agriculture, on the ‘Relation of the 
Sparrow to Insects,’ based on the examination of the contents of over 500 
Sparrow stomachs, followed by tabular statements of food, as shown by 
dissection of Sparrows’ stomachs made at the Department of Agriculture. 
* U.S. Department of Agriculture. | Division of Economic Ornithology and Mam- 
malogy. | Bulletin I. | — | The | English Sparrow | (Passer domesticus) |in North 
America, | especially in its Relation to Agriculture. | — | Prepared under the direction 
of | Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Ornithologist, | by | Walter B. Barrows, | Assistant Orni- 
thologist. | — | Washington: | Government Printing Office. | 1889.—8vo, pp. 405, with 
map. 
