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1877. Marsh, 0. C. Introduction and Succession | of | Vertebrate Life in 

 America. | An Address | delivered before the | American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, | at Nashville, Tenn., August 30, 

 1877, I by Professor O. C. Marsh, | "Vice President. 8vo. pp. 57, 

 large-paper copies, separate from Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. SoL, n. p., 

 n.d. [1877.] 



Birds especlaUy at pp. 18-22. — A masterly review of the -whole subject, with 

 especial reference, however, to mammals. 



1877. Marsh, O. C. Recent PalEBontological Discoveries in the West. < Am. 

 Nat, xi. No. 8, 1877, p. 500, lig. 84. 

 Notice and figure of restored Sesperornis regalia. 



1877. "M. E. B." Blue-birds [Sialia sialis] besieged by Martins [Progne 

 subis]. <_Field and Forest, ii, No, 12, June, 1877, pp. 215, 216. 



1877. Mbrriam, C. H. A Review of the Birds of Connecticut, with Remarks 

 on their Habits. < Trans. Conn. Acad., iv, July-Oct., 1877, pp. 1-1(55. 

 Also separate, pamphlet and bound, A Review | of the | Birds of 

 Connecticut. | By | C. Hart Merriam. | — | New Haven : | Tnttle, 

 Morehouse & Taylor, Printers, | 1877. Large 8vo. 1 p. 1., pp. 1-166. 

 An important article, very critical, complete and workmanlike, bringing the 

 subject np to date, from the imperfect condition in which it was left 34 years 

 before by Lisslet, Am. Jomrn. Sm., xliv. No. 2, 1843, pp. 249-374, which paper is 

 carefally analyzed. I hold it for a model of this sort of work. 291 spp., fuUy 

 annotated, with copious references. Summer residents known to breed, 135; 

 permanent residents, 41 ; migrants not known to breed, 90 ; winter residents, 

 regular, 36; irregular, 31; summer visitants, irregular, 30; rare and accidental 

 visitors, 46 ; rare and irregular migrants, 9. 



1877. MmoT, H. D. The | Land-Birds and Game-Birds | of | New England | 

 with I Descriptions of the Birds, their Nests and Eggs, 1 their Hab- 

 its and Notes. | With Illustrations. | — | By | H. D. Minot. | — | 

 [Quotation.] | Salem, Mass. | Naturalists' Agency. | Boston : | Estes 

 & Lauriat. | 1877. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. xvi, 456, with 29 woodcc. on 1 pi. 

 (frontisp.) and 22 in text. 



Published in December, 1876. Cf. Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, ii, 1877, p. 49 ; Forest 

 and Stream, vii, Jan. 25, 1877, p. 391 ; Bod and Own, ix, Jan. 27, 1877, p. 263. 



1877. MiNOT, H. D. Minot's New England Birds ; Additions. <; Am. Nat., 

 xi, No. 3, 1877, p. 175. 



Note of his "careless" {as he calls it) omission of Nauelerus forficatus. Buteo 

 swainsoni, Tyrannus verticalis, and Selminthophaga pinus from his work. 



1877. Minot, H. D. Birds' Nests. < Harper's Ntw Monthly Mag., Iv, 1877, 

 pp. 90-97, 256-259, 9 illustrations. 



Description of various forms of nest-architecture ; illustrated very finely by 

 woodcuts from photographs. 



1877. Nelson, E. W. Birds of Northeastern Illinois. < Ball. Essex Inst., 

 viii, April, 1877, pp. 90-155. 



A thoroughly good list, annotated, of 316 spp. and several vara. Cf. Am. Nat, 

 xi, 1877, p. 615. 



1877. Nelson, E. W. Notes upon Birds observed in Southern Illinois 

 between July 17 and September 4, 1875. < Bull. Essex Inst, ix, 

 June, 1877, pp. 32-65. 

 Notices of about a hundred species. 



