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a supplement to the same author’s excellent “ Revised List of Cincinnati 
Birds,” publishedin 1879 (ef. this Bulletin, Vol. IV, pp. 112, 113). They 
add five species to the number there given, and bring the total thus far iden- 
tified to 263. They relate to 40 species, giving records of further captures 
of many of the rarer ones, and of the nesting, etc. of others. Among the 
points of special interest are the capture of two specimens (male and female) 
of Kirtland’s Warbler ( Dendrceca kirtlandi ) near Cleveland, May 4 and 
12, 1880, and the replacement of a colony of several hundred Rough- 
winged and Cliff Swallows, formerly nesting about the piers and under the 
floors of a bridge, by “ that much to be regretted addition to our fauna,” 
the House Sparrow. The paper is preceded by Dr. Langdon’s description 
of a new species of Helminthopliaga , which, through the author’s kindness, 
is reproduced, with the accompanying plate, in the present number of this 
Bulletin. — J. A. A. 
Stearns’s List of the Birds of Fishkill, New York. * — This is 
a briefly annotated list of about 130 species, based on ten months’ observa- 
tions by the author in the vicinity of Fishkill, supplemented by information 
received from Messrs. Peter de Nottbeck and John Lynch. As the author 
has judiciously endeavored to give only what he “ knows,” without attempt- 
ing to “ theorize,” the list, though very incomplete, is doubtless trust- 
worthy so far as it goes, although its raison d'etre is not obvious. — J. A. A. 
Harvie-Brown on the Effects of an unusually severe Win- 
ter upon Scottish Birds. — In the last number of the Bulletin (Vol. V, 
pp. 175- 177) we had the pleasure of directing attention to the systematic 
way in which certain British ornithologists, especially Messrs. Harvie- 
Brown and Cordeaux, are gathering data respecting the migratory move- 
ments of European birds. But it appears by the paper f now under no- 
tice that Scottish birds are subject to a close surveillance at other than the 
migratory periods. The winter of 1878- 79 proved of unusual severity, 
and its effect upon animal life, and especially upon bird life, attracted the 
attention of many careful observers, Mr. Harvie-Brown giving a list of 
more than a dozen published papers relating to the subject. These, with 
his own observations and the collected notes of his many correspondents, 
form the basis of the paper above cited, which gives first a general and 
statistical resume of the weather, followed by a detailed report upon its 
effects on animal life, nearly fifty pages being devoted to birds. It 
* List of Birds of Fishkill on Hudson, N. Y. By Winfred A. Stearns. 8vo. 
pp. 16, without date or publisher’s impress. Received July, 1880. 
t Ornithological Journal of the Winter of 1878 -79, with Collected Notes 
regarding its Effects upon Animal Life, including Remarks on the Migration of 
Birds in the Autumn of 1878 and the Spring of 1879. By Mr. John A. 
Harvie-Brown, F. Z. S., M. B. 0. U. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, 1879, 
pp. 123 - 190. 
