322 ABSTRACTS: ORNITHOLOGY 



the Glacier National Park. It comprises all the species heretofore 

 authentically reported from the Park, together with many unpublished 

 data from recent field work in this region. It may be regarded as a 

 prehminary contribution, and contains only brief notes on each species 

 and subspecies, including their manner and place of occurrence in the 

 Park. Harhy C. Oberholser. 



ORNITHOLOGY. — Bones of birds collected by Theodoor de Booy, 

 from kitchen-midden deposits in the islands of St. Thomas and St. 

 Croix. Alexander Wetmore. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 54: 

 513-522, pi. 82. 1918. 



A collection of seventy-three fragments of bird bones from kitchen- 

 midden deposits on the islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix furnishes 

 a number of interesting records. Among these remains thirteen species 

 are represented, including three not identifiable more than genericaUy. 

 Nine species are attributed to the island of St. Thomas, including 

 five not hitherto recorded. These five are Puffinus Iherminieri, Sula 

 leucogastris, Fregata magnificens [rothschildi], Anous stolidus, and an 

 interesting new genus and species of the family Rallidae. The last 

 mentioned is apparently most closely allied to the genera Ar amides 

 and Gallirallus, and is here named Nesotrochis debooyi. From St. 

 Croix six species are recorded, of which Stda piscator [= Sula sula], 

 Nesotrochis debooyi, and Corvus leucognaphalus were previously unknown 

 from this island. The last is of particular interest, since no species 

 of this genus has been recorded in the West Indies farther east than the 

 island of Porto Rico. Harry C. Oberholser. 



ORNITHOLOGY. — Attracting birds to public and semipublic reser- 

 vations. W. L. McAtee. U. S. Dept. Agric. Bull. 715: 1-13. 

 1918. 



Birds exert a steady influence in reducing the numbers of injurious 

 insects and other plant feeders, and should, for this reason, be partic- 

 ularly useful in public reservations. Birds are beneficial as enemies 

 of a great variety of pests, and many observers claim that an abundance 

 of birds on their grounds has kept down all the ordinary enemies of 

 vegetation. They are, therefore, deserving of careful protection; 

 and more attention should be given to attracting them to public and 

 semipublic reservations such as national parks, national forests, national 

 bird reservations, state parks, zoological gardens, the environs of res- 



