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of birds at the locality named during March, April, and May, 1880, in- 
cluding such collateral phenomena as thermometrical readings, the devel- 
opment of vegetation, etc. It is a model of what such a record should be, 
and too many of its kind cannot be made public. 
88. Unusual Nesting Places \of the Robin and Chipping Sparroiv\. 
By Seym. Ingersoll. Ibid.. XIV, p. 224. 
89. Spring Notes. By Seym. Ingersoll. Ibid., XIV, p. 224. — On the 
arrival of birds at Cleveland, Ohio, February 10 to April 3, 1880. 
90. Nesting Pigeons. By. M. Ibid., XIV, pp. 231, 232. — On the 
nesting and netting of Wild Pigeons at Shelby, Mich. “This roost 
was thirty miles long, varying in width from one to five miles.” 
91. The food of our Thrushes. Editorial [G. B. Grinnell]. Ibid.. XIV, 
p. 244. — Review and abstract of Prof. S. A. Forbes’s very important paper 
on this subject in “Trans. 111 . State Hort. Soc.,” Vol. XIII. 
92. Spring Field Notes. By H. E. Chubb. Ibid., XIV, p. 307. — Record 
of first arrival of birds at Cleveland, Ohio, February 12 to May 4, 1880. 
9 3. \Vernal Migration of birds to Nova Scotia .] By J. Matthew Jones. 
Ibid., XIV, p. 307. — Notes on the arrival of various species in the spring 
of 1880. 
94. Spring notes for April. By Seym. R. Ingersoll. Ibid., XIV, p. 348. 
— Arrival of birds at Cleveland, Ohio. 
95. Woodcock carrying their Toung. By B., with lengthy editorial 
comment. Ibid.. XIV, p. 368. 
96. Cape May Warbler ( D\endroeca ] Tigrina. ) ByJ. N. Ibid., XIV, 
p. 389, — Record of its capture at Quebec, Canada. 
97. Linnean Society. Editorial. Ibid., XIV, pp. 389-390. — Record of 
meeting held May 15, 1880, with abstracts of papers read, including one 
by S. D. Osborne on the Fringillidce which breed on Long Island, and of 
others on birds bv H. B. Bailey, L. S. Foster, Franklin Benner, and 
others. 
98. Woodcock carrying their Toung. Ibid., XIV, p. 468. — Two in- 
teresting communications, one anonymous [i. e. H. W. Henshaw], the 
other by F. C. Fowler. 
99. Breeding of the Shorelark in Winter . By Chas. Linden. Ibid., 
XIV, p. 489. — Eremophila “ cornuta ” with half-fledged voung the middle 
of February at Buffalo, N. Y. 
100. Northern Range of the Blue Grosbeak. By Wm. Couper. Ibid., 
XIV, p. 509, — On its capture at Bic. on the northern shore 1 of the St. Law- 
rence River. 
In addition to the above, these two volumes of “ Forest and Stream ” con- 
tain many ornithological communications of interest which are either 
anonymous, pseudonymous, or signed with initials, which for this reason 
are here omitted. It is merely mistaken modesty, or pure whim, that leads 
contributors of natural history notes to withold their names, especially 
