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1878. 



Allen, J. A. — A List of the Birds of Massachusetts, with Annotations, 

 by J. A. Allen. Bull. Essex Inst., Vol. X., pp. 3-37, April, 1878. 



It is seldom that one meets with a local catologue more thoroughly- 

 satisfactory in all essential respects than the present one .... this list 

 presents the names of three hundred and sixteen species of ascertained 

 occurrence in Massachusetts, not one of which can be challenged. . . . 

 one hundred and thirty-five are marked as breeding within the State 

 . . Thirty-five North American birds have been added to the Massa- 

 chusetts list since 1867.— T. M. B., Bull Null Ornith. Club, Vol. III., pp 

 138-140, July, 1878. 



Aughey, Samuel. — Notes on the Nature of the Food of the Birds of 



Nebraska. By Professor Samuel Aughey, of Lincoln, Neb. 



First Ann. Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm.for the Year 1877. Appendix II., 



pp. 18-62. 1878. 



....The list numbers two hundred and fifty species, and hence 

 includes a pretty large, proportion of the birds that visit the State, and 

 as the list relates ostensibly to only locust-eating species, our first feel- 

 ing i^ one of surprise that it should be so large Although Mr. 

 Aughey's paper bears especially upon the subject of birds as grass- 

 hopper destroyers, it forms at the same time a valuable faunal list of the 

 birds of Southern Nebraska, containing notes relating to the relative 

 abundance and season of most of the species.— J. A. A , Bull Nutt. 

 Ornith. Club, Vol. IV, pp. 110, 111, April, 1879. 



Aughey, Samuel. — Some facts and considerations concerning the 

 beneficial work of birds. By Professor Samuel Aughey, of Lin- 

 coln, Neb. First Ann. Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm. for the Year 1877, 

 pp. 338-350, 1878. 



... .a special communication on the general subject of the useful- 

 ness of birds, with particular regard, however, to the locust question 

 ... .he concludes that even the majority of Raptorial birds should be 

 protected. . . .He believes that sooner or later the protection of useful 

 birds should become not only a national, but an international matter, 

 ....—J. A. A., Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, Vol. IV, pp. Ill, 112, April, 

 1879. 



Brewer, T. M. — Notes on certain Species of New England Birds, 



with Additions to his Catalogue of the Birds of New England. 



By T. M. Brewer. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. XIX., pp. 



301-309, April, 1878. 



This paper adds twenty-one species to the " Catalogue of the Birds 

 of New England," published by this author in 1875, and contains notes 

 on twenty-seven other species of rare occurrence in New England. The 

 whole number of "recognized forms" now admitted by him as having 

 been taken in New England is three hundred and fifty-six . . — J. A. A., 

 Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, Vol. III., p. 185, October, 1878. 



Bureau, Louis. — De la Mue du Bee et des Ornements Palpebraux du 



