TO Notes on Rhode Island Ornithology. 



a group of pines, a short distance from raj home at South Auburn, so it 

 is inipossible to state when the first arrivals from tlie south reached here. 

 South Auburn, March 15, 1900. H. S. Hathaway. 



SPRING ARRIVAL NOTES 1900. 



Killdeers (^^Sgia litis vocifercC). 



March 7, Pawtuxket, Y. E. Newbury. 

 Killdeers (^^^gialitis vocifera). 



Two, March 19, Newport, Le Roy King. 

 Red-winged Blackbirds {Agelaius ^kcenicetis). 



Seven, March 17, Portsmouth, E. Sturtevant. 

 Phoebe (Sayornis p/iocbe). 



One, March 8, South Auburn, H. S. Hathawa\'. 

 Red-winged Blackbird {Agelaius fhmtiicetcs) . 



One, March 8, Soutli Auburn, H. S. Hathaway. 

 Grackles {^uiscalus quiscula or cBneus}). 



Large flock,. March 12, Auburn, H. S. Hathaway. 

 Grackles {^iiisceilus quiscula or ceneus'^). 



Fifteen, March 7, Bristol Ferry, H. S. Hathawayi 

 Song Sparrows {Melospiza fasciaia). 



Common, March 9, Newport, E. Sturtevant. 

 Robins [Merida niigratorici). 



A few arrivals, March 11, Newport, Austin Sands. 



REVIEWS. 



The Birds of Eastern North America, by Charles B. Cory, Field Co- 

 lumbian Museum, Chicago, 1899. 



This is another of Mr. Cory's Keys. It suggests a sort of " Gray's 

 Botany" of birds, which though giving the most ignorant the power 

 to identify our birds, is so brief in text, and so mechanical in makeup, 

 that its skeleton nature is rather unpleasant to the ornithologists who 

 love birds for their personality. The work is profusely illustrated, and 

 will no doubt prove of great assistance to many whose main desire is 

 to name the birds they see or that fall into their hands. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Bird-Lore, Vol. II, No. i, Feb., 1900. 



Nature Study Leaflet. Our Common Birds, by C. F. Hodge, Ph.D. 

 Bio. Series No. 2 Worcester, Mass., 1899. 



The Condor, Vol. II, No. 1, Jan., Feb., 1900. 



The Journal of the Maine Ornithological Society, Vol.11, No. i, Jan., 

 1900. 



The Osprey, Vol. IV, No. 5, Jan., 1900. 



The Western Ornithologist, Second Series, Vol. V. No. i. Jan. and 

 Feb., iqoo. 



