1014 Recent Literature, [Oc à 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
NOTES ON THE BIRDS OBSERVED DURING A SUMMER CRUISED 
THE GULF oF St. LAwreNce. By WILLIAM Brewster. —Thisi 
the title of an important paper of forty eight pages recently 
issued by the Boston Society of Natural History. By wayd | 
introduction Mr. Brewster states that the expedition was orga 
ized by Professor Hyatt, and that the scientific work accomplished 
was done in the interest of the Boston Society of Natural His 
tory. The party, which consisted of Alpheus Hyatt, William 
Brewster, Samuel Henshaw, E. G. Gardiner, W. H. Kerr and È 
R. Warren, set sail from Annisquam, Mass., on the moring o 
June 17, 1881, “in the Arethusa, a schooner-rigged yacht of ser- 
enteen: tons, belonging to Professor Hyatt.” The gulf waser 
tered on the 24th. The places visited were Gaspé, Perce . 
the Magdalen islands, Anticosti (Fox, Wreck and Ellis bays ai 
West End), and the Mingan island on the north shore. 
Persons familiar with navigation in the Gulf of St. Lawrent | 
will not be surprised at the statement: “ The weather durig 
two, and some of these were more or less interrupted by 
was by no means uncommon to spend several days waiting * 
opportunity to land on some tempting shore, and woe? 
thing like tho 
work.” The time and patience required for the preparati 
preservation of bird skins on a small yacht during 
must be experienced to be fully appreciated, and 
in order to save specimens previously procured, W 
forced to remain on board while the other members © 
were on shore. 
technical character. 
Concerning the song of the fox sparro see 
“ What the mocking-bird is to the South, the mea@ csat 
plains of the West, the robin and song sparrow to nglatt 
and the white-throated sparrow to Northern Nev Calf 0 
fox sparrow is to the bleak regions bordering a 
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1 Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 
PP. 364-412. Not issued till June, 1884. 
