Recently published Ornithological Works. 563 
records from the writings of the Jesuit Fathers and others 
referring to many of the United States and to Canada; the 
second records the failure of the attempts to discover living 
examples of the bird by the offer of prizes ; tlie third repeats 
Thoreau’s information from his ‘ Notes on New England 
Birds/ A translation by S. M. Gronberger of a paper from 
the Swedish by Pehr Kalm, on the “ Wild Pigeons which 
visit the Southern English Colonies in North America,” may 
be taken in connexion with the others; for this we are in¬ 
debted to Dr. T. Gill, who unearthed the Swedish original. 
These articles lead to several notes in the April number 
(pp. 259-262). 
Mr. W. Brewster has a most interesting account in the 
January number of the manner in which the nuptial plumes 
of certain Bitterns are displayed ; while in that of October 
Dr. J. A. Allen reviews the Third Edition of the A.O.U. 
Check-list, and in that of January Mr. F. M. Chapman 
describes and figures in colour a new species of American 
Hang-nest (Icterus fuertesi) from the Tamesi River in 
Mexico. 
Of distributional papers there is no lack, that of Mr. J. H. 
Bowles being of the most general interest, as it deals with 
the extension of range of certain species on the whole Pacific 
slope. Others are by Mr. A. H. Howell on the birds of the 
“ sunken lands” of S.E. Missouri ; by Mr. S. S. Yisher on 
those of Harding County, S. Dakota; by Mr. A. A. Saunders 
on those of Gallatin County, Montana ; by Mr. H. Lacey 
on those of Kirsville, Texas; by Mr. A. W. Honywill on 
those of the Lake Region of Minnesota ; and by Mr. J. C. 
Phillips on those of the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico. The 
last-named describes as new Stria? virgata tamaulipensis, 
Heleodytes narinosus, and Dendrosca (Estiva inedita. 
Several papers are contributed by ladies : Mrs. C. J. Stan- 
wood writing on nests of Dendrosca magnolia, Mrs. F. M. 
Bailey on the wild life of an alkaline lake and the Mogollon 
Mountains in New Mexico, and Mrs. A. R. Sherman on the 
breeding of Brewster’s Warbler in Massachusetts. 
Finally, Mr. W. E. C. Todd discusses fully the Bahaman 
