1SS4.I Recent Literature. 8q 



515. Sitta canadensis. Ry Harold Gill)ert. Thid.. IT. p. 138. — On its 

 nesting and northern winter limit. 



516. 'iWhippoorivill\ Bv W. L. Scott. /A/V/. . 1 1, 138, 139. — Its nest- 

 ing and range in Canada. 



517. The Birds of Prey of Nova Scotia. \\y J. Bernard Gilpin. A. B., 

 M. D., M. R. C. S. Ibid., II, pp. r39, 140, 153-155- 



51S. [ Whistling Stxiaii (^Cygnus atnericatm.s), etc.^. By Harold Gilbert. 

 /did., II, p. 144. — Its capture near St. John, N. B., and notes on several 

 winter birds. 



519. Tit Lark {Anthtis ludovician/ts). By Chas. J. G. Fraser. Ibid., 

 II, p. 152. — Nesting near Gaits, Ont. Thought to be the ''Shore Lark 

 (yEremophila cornutay by W. E. Saunders {Ibid., p 163). 



520. Rare Birds in Ontario. By John A. Morden. Ibid., II, pp. 162, 

 163. — Relates chiefly to the Lapland Longspur, at Mitchel's Bay, Ont. 



521. List of the Birds of Western Ontario. By J. A. Morden and 

 W. E. Saunders. Ibid., II. pp. 1S3-187, 192-194. — An annotated list of 

 236 species. (Already noticed antea, p. 85.) 



522. Cattadian Oology. By VVm. L. Kells. Ibid., II, pp. 195, 196. — 

 Brief informal reference to various species. 



Publications Received. — Shufeldt, R. W. Observations upon the Os- 

 teology of Podasocys montanus. (Journ. Anat. and Phys., Vol. XVIII.) 



Coues, E. A Hearing of Birds' Ears. (Science, Vol. II, Nos. 34, 38, 39.) 



Morden and Saunders, List of the Birds of Western Ontario. (Canad. 

 Sports, and Nat., 1S82, Nos. 11, 12.) 



Mcllwraith, T. [Birds of Western Ontario.] (Ibid., 1883, No. i.) 



Stearns, W. A. Notes on the Natural History of Labrador. (Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883.) 



Stejneger, L. On the Systematic Arrangement of the American Tur- 

 dida^. {Ibid., 1882.) 



Collett, R. Ardetta minuta, Sterna cantiaca, og Larus minutus, nye for 

 Norges Fauna. (Vid.-Selsk. Forh., 1S83.) 



Nelson, E. W. The Birds of Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean. (^^Cruise 

 of the 'Corwin,' 1883.) 



Bulletin of the Essex Institute, Vol. XIV^, Nos, 7-12. 



American Naturalist, Vol. XVIII, No. i, Jan. 1884. 



Zoologist, Dec. 1883. 



Ornithologist and Oologist, Jan. 18S4. 



Science Record, Vol. II, No. i. 



Bulletin of the Nat. Hist. Soc. of New Brunswick, No. 2, 1883. 



Ann. Rep. Mus. Comp. Zoology, 1882-3. 



