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Recent Literature. 
Minot’s Diary of a Bird.* — This entertaining and pleasantly writ- 
ten piece of bird-gossip is represented to.be a translation of a “Diary” 
of a “Black-throated Green Warbler,” and a recounts, among other things, 
the doings of “a grand mass meeting” of the birds to discuss “The 
Destruction and Extermination of Birds ; how caused, and how to be 
prevented,” in which various members of the great bird convention relate 
their grievances. At this point of the narrative the “ translator ” takes 
the opportunity to interpolate statistics relating to the destruction of 
Game Birds and Water Fowl for the market, and to suggest more strin- 
gent legislation for the protection of these and other classes of birds. 
The object of this attractive little brochure is to awaken popular interest ' 
in the general subject of the better protection of our birds, not only 
against the professional market gunner, but from their wholesale destruc- 
tion to meet the demands of the milliner. — J. A. A. 
Minor Ornithological Papers. j- — Volume III of “Field and 
Forest ” (July, 1877 - June, 1878), — the last volume to be issued, we regret 
to say, of this valuable journal, — contains the following : — 
19. Mrs. Maxwell's Colorado Museum. — Additional Notes. By Robert 
Ridgway. Field and Forest, Vol. Ill, p. 11. — On specimens of Junco 
caniceps and J. annectens, exhibiting unusual variations of plumage. 
20. Arrivals of Birds. By W. L. Jones. Ibid., pp. 17, 18. — Records 
the arrival in spring of various species of birds at Lebanon, 111. 
21. \_I liber nation of Swallows.'] Ibid., pp. 35, 36. — Communication by 
Robert R. McLeod covering statements by John F. Goss and A. S. Free- 
man regarding the discovery of Bank Swallows hibernating in mud and 
in a hollow tree. 
22. Field Notes on some of the Birds of the District of Columbia. By P. 
L. Jouy. Ibid., pp. 51,52. — -Notes on six species, among them Dendrceca 
coerulea (a specimen seen), Choridestes grammica (two seen and a third 
shot), and Pipilo erytlirophthalmus (two specimens with white spots on the 
scapulars, thus approaching var. arcticus). 
23. Notes on the Habits of the Green-backed California Humming-Bird , 
Selasphorus alleni, Ilensh. By FI. W. Henshaw. Ibid., pp. 95-98. — A 
detailed account of the habits of this species, based on information re- 
ceived from C. A. Allen, of Nicasio, Cal. 
24. Natural History of the Islands of Lake Erie. By H. H. Ballou. 
Ibid., pp. 135- 137. - — Enumerates about thirty-eight species of birds, most 
of them marked as breeding. 
25. Additions to the List of District Birds. By VI. F. Roberts. Ibid., 
p. 172. — Adds Macrorliamphus griseus, and states the whole number of 
species known from the District of Columbia to be 242. 
* The Diary of a Bird. By H. D. Minot. Boston : A. Williams & Co. 
1880. 8vo, pp. 38, cuts. 
t Continued from Vol. V, p. 46. 
