'^^3-] Recent Literature. j (7 o 



265. The Moa at Home. By E. E. H[owell]. Ibid., l\, ^o. i, Jan. 

 1883, PP- 4> 5> 7> 8.— On the first discovery of bones of the Moa, when 

 and howMoas became extinct, their classification, etc., with cuts of four 

 Moa skeletons recently sent to the Cambridge Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, and of skin from neck and of a feather of a Moa. 



266. Taxidermy at Ho7ne. By "One of the Taxidermists." Ibid., pp. 

 13, 14.— Taxidermy and taxidermists at Ward's Natural Science Establish- 

 ment, Rochester, N. Y., with cut of the taxidermists' workroom, and some ' 

 sensible observations on the general subject of taxidermy. 



266 bis. The Century Article. Editorial. /5/<f., p. 2. — Corrections of 

 article on "The Taxidermal Art" in "Century" magazine for Dec. 1882. 

 (See next title.) 



267. The Taxidermal Art. By Franklin H. North. Century Maga- 

 zine, XXV, Dec. 1882, pp. 230-239, 10 figg.— Contains references to the 

 work of such noted taxidermists as Waterton, the Verreaux brothers, etc., 

 the work carried on at Prof. Ward's establishment at Rochester, N. Y., 



♦with some account of the difficulties of the art and how they are over- 

 come. Of the 10 illustrations 8 relate to birds, and represent pieces by 

 F. S. Webster, W. T. Hornaday, J. W. Fraine, and W. E. D. Scott. 

 (Mistakes in giving credit for some of the pieces figui-ed are corrected in 

 the following No. of the Magazine, XXV, p. 462.) 



268. With the Birds on Boston Common. By Bradford Torrey. At- 

 lantic Monthly, LI, Feb. 1883, pp. 203-208. — Contains notes on Sphyro- 

 fictis varius and Lattitis borealis, and briefer notices of many other 

 species. 



The "Ornithologist and Oologist,"* volume VI (March 1881-March 

 1882), contains, besides brief notes about common spe;cies. too numerous 

 and not of sufficient importance for enumeration -vf^ithin our limited 

 space, the following (Nos. 269-363) : — 



269. The Oologist. Its History from the Commencemefit. By the 

 Associate Editor [S. L. Willard]. Ornithologist and Oologist, VI, 



PP- 1-3- 



270. '■^That Woodcock''' \ivith the stick through its breast~\. By H. 

 Merrill. Ibid., VI, p. 3, cut. 



271. Sparrozv Hawk. By Jno. H. Sage. Ibid., VI, p. 6. — Breeding 

 at Portland, Conn., in a pigeon-hole in a barn ! • Also notice of capture 

 of Accifiter fusctis in winter (Feb. 4, 1881). 



* Ornithologist and Oologist.' Joseph M. Wade, Editor and Publisher. Norwich, 

 Conn. Large 8vo. Vol. VI, March 1881-March 1882, pp. 1-96. For notice of earlier 

 volumes of the "Oologist" see this Bulletin, Vol. IV, 1881, p. 47, 48. The volume 

 here summarized contains many papers of much interest respecting the breeding 

 habits of species not previously well-known. Each number, however, usually- contains 

 a paragraph of "corrections" of misstatements in previous issues, in addition to cor- 

 rections occasionally made by contributors, which seems to show a lack of care on 

 the part of the editor in the discrimination of matter. Misprints and other typograph- 

 ical infelicities are by no means rare, yet we can but congratulate the editor on the 

 steady improvement in these respects which mark the volume, and the increasing 

 scientific value of its matter, contrasting as it does most favorably with that of the 

 earlier volumes of the series. 



