1SS4.I l\ccciil I^i/erutiire. lO'J 



Goose, Curlews, White Owls, and Egrets," at the foot of Lake Erie and 

 on Niagara River (p. 35). 



Each nuniberof the Bulletin has a departmentof 'Ornithological Notes,' 

 which, with one exception, are from the pen of Mr. Fish. (For further 

 reference to these see 'Minor Ornithological Publications' in this number 

 of 'The Auk,' Nos. 595-607.) 



Minor Ornithological Publications. — Volume III* of the 'Canadian 

 Sportsman and Naturalist' contains the following (Nos. 523-543) : — 



523. {^Birds of Western Ontai-io.'\ By T. Mcllwraith. Ibid., Ill, pp. 

 198-200, 207. — Remarks on various species, with a comparison of the 

 Hamilton and London lists. In all 260 species have been observed. (See 

 also a 11 tea, p. 85). 



524. Ornithological Notes. By Ernest D. Wintle. Ibid.., Ill, p. 200. 

 — A pair of White-bellied Sw^allows lay 13 eggs; Catbirds laying spotted 

 eggs; "two species of Crow Blackbird in Canada," but the supposed 

 occurrence of ^iiiscalus major is doubtless erroneous, as stated bv Everett 

 Smith {Ibid., Ill, p. 207). (See below. No. 526.) 



525. TIic Wood-tlirnsJies (^H\locicJila) of JVezv Bruftszuick. By M. 

 Chamberlain, St. John, N. B. Ibid., Ill, pp. 201-203. — (Previously pub. 

 lished in the 'Ornithologist and Oologist,' VII, pp. 185-187.) 



526. Crozv Blackbird. By Everett Smith. Ibid., Ill, p. 207. — ^The 

 Boat-tailed Grackle not yet taken in Canada. (See antea. No. 524.) On 

 page 208 W. E. Saunders and W. W. Dunlop. under the same caption, 

 write to the same effect. 



527. List of Birds ascertained to occur xuithin ten miles from Point 

 de Monts. Province of .Quebec, Canada ; based cJiiefly upon 9iotes of 

 Napoleon A. Comeaii. By C. Hart Merriam, M. D. Ibid., Ill, pp. 208- 

 212.— (From Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club. VH, Oct. 1882.) 



528. T//C Hudsonian C/iickadee. {Pariis /i/idsonictis.) By Montague 

 Chamberlain. Ibid.. Ill, pp. 215-217. — Biograph}' of the species. 



529. Birds of Western Ontario. By John M. Morden. /<^/(f.. Ill, p. 216. 

 — On Lanins borealis, Regnlus caletidiila, and Circus /ludsonius. Supposed 

 young of former, taken near Hyde Park, doubtless were L. ludovicianits. 



530. Notes on the breeding of the Red-Jieaded Duck at I^ake St. 

 Clair. By John M. Morden. /^/c/., Ill, pp. 218, 219. 



531. Notes on the Natural History of Mattitoba. By W. G. A. Brodie. 

 Ibid., Ill, pp. 221-224. — Contains notes on about 80 species of birds. 



532. Netv Brunszvick Notes. Poon. {^Colvmbus torquatus.) Bv Mon- 

 tague Chamberlain. Ibid., Ill, p. 231. 



S?)?>- The Wild or Passenger Pigeon. Ectopistes migratorius. ^y 

 J. M. LeMoine. Ibid.. Ill, p. 231. — Notes on its abundance prior to 1850, 

 about Qj.iebec and Montreal. 



* Volume III, as here indexed, is incomplete, the number for September, 1883, being 

 the last that has reached us, or that we have heard of as published up to the present 

 writing (March i, 1884). 



[Since writing the foregoing other numbers have come to hand. Respecting this 

 publication see 'Notes and News' in this number of The Auk.'] 



