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SHUFELDT, Robert W,— Continued. 

 Photographs of living birds : Aiken's 

 Owl, and Wood Pewee. 



Mdiologigt, m, No. 2, New York, Oct., 

 1895, pp. 13-15. 

 Gives experiences in the matter of tiie pho- 

 tography of living birds, the article being 

 illustrated by half-tone pictures of a pair of 

 Aiken's Screech Owls, Megasco2)g a. aikeni, 

 captured by the author at Fort Wingate, N. 

 Mex. It is probable that this is the first pho- 

 tograph of this species ever published. In tlie 

 pliotograph of the young "Wood Pewees, Con- 

 topus virens, both the birds and nest are given 

 natural size, and this print has been very 

 widely copied and repiiblisbed. It has like- 

 wise been adopted as the oiitaide-cover illumi- 

 natiou of the Nidiologist. 



[Reviews of the following papers:] 



On the hyoid bone in certain parrots, 

 by St. George Mivart, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., Mar., 1895, pp. 162-174; Hawks 

 and owls from the standpoint of the 

 farmer, by A. K. Fisher, reprinted from 

 the Yearhook of the U. S. Dept. Agric, 

 1894 (1895), pp. 215-232; a revision of 

 the genus Turdinus and genera allied 

 to it, by J. Buttikofer, 42 pp. ; The 

 Cowbirds, by Charles Bendire, Eep. 

 Smithsonian Inst. ( U. S. Nat. Mus.), 1893 

 (1895), pp. 587-614, pis. 1-3; The tongues 

 of Woodpeckers, by F. A. Lucas, re- 

 printed from Bull. J)iv. Ornithol. and 

 Mamm.,U. S. Dcpt. Agric, No. 7, 1895, 

 pp. 2.5-39, pis. i-iii; The weapons and 

 wings of birds, by F. A. Lucas, Bej). 

 Smithsonian Inst. ( U. S. Nat. Mus.), 1893 

 (1895), pp. 653-663, pi. 1, figs. 1-8. 



Nidiologist, in, No. 2, Now York, Oct., 

 1895, pp. 22, 23. 



Sea Horses. 



Popular Science News (twenty-ninth 

 year), No. ii, New York, Nov., 1895, 

 pp.1, 61, 3 figs. 

 A somewhat full account of various species 

 of Sea Horses from diti'erent parts of the world. 

 Illustrations are given from the works of Dr. 

 G. Brown Goode, Dr. Giinther, and Mr. Lock- 

 wood. 



Photographs of young Skimmers, 



with notes on the breeding habits of 

 theso birds, by Mr. William Palmer. 



Nidiologist, ni. No. 3, New York, Nov., 



1895, pp. 26-29, 2 figs. 



On the 18th of September, 1895, Mr. William 



Palmer, of the United States National Museum, 



loaned the author two living specimens of the 



young of the Black Skimmer, Rhynchops nigra. 



SHUFELDT, Robert W.— Continued. 



These birds had been captured by Mr. Palmer 

 on the sandy islands known as " The Isaacs," 

 which are situated a mile or so to the eastward 

 of Cape Charles, Virginia. 



The article incorporates Mr. Palmer's notes 

 on the habits of the Skimmers on their breed- 

 ing grounds, and is illustrated by two fine half- 

 tone figures of the young of this species at 

 different ages. These latter are from photo- 

 graphs made by Dr. Shufeldt from the living 

 birds captured by Mr. Palmer. 



[Reviews of the following works:] 



Inmates of my house and garden, by 

 Eliza Brightwen, New York and Lon- 

 don, 1895, pp. 1-277; Nature in Acadie, 

 by H. K. Swann, London, 1895, pp. i- 

 viii, 1-74; The skeleton of Lorius faco- 

 palliatus compared with that of Psitta- 

 cus erithacus (part 1), by St. George 

 Mivart, Pioc. Zool. Soc. Lond., Apr. 2, 

 1895, pp. 312-337, 363-399 ; Further notes 

 on Trinidad birds, with a description 

 of a new species of Synallaxis, by F. M. 

 Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 Yii, Art. IX, New York, Oct. 7, 1895, pp. 

 321-326. 



Nidiologist, ni, No. 3, New York, Nov., 

 1895, pp. 33-35. 



Bluebirds near Washington, D. C. 



Forest and Stream, Jiod and Gun, XLV, No. 

 26, New York, Dec. 28, 1895, p. 562. 

 Points out that Sialia sialis is more abun- 

 dant about "Washington than many eastern 

 ornithologists, who have in their writings pre- 

 dicted the complete extinction of the species, 

 would have their readers believe. 



[Reviews of the following works:] 



A naturalist in Mexico, by Frank Col- 

 lins Baker, sm. 8vo, pp. 1-145, Chicago, 

 1895; Vogelschutziu England, by Paul 

 Leverkiihn, Sonderabdruck aus der 

 Ornithol. Monatsschrift des Deutschen 

 Vereins sum Schutzeder Vogelwelt, J ahrg. 

 1894, Nr. I, II, Halle, 1895; Todesanzei- 

 gen, by Paul Leverkiihn, Ibid., viii, ix, 

 Jahrg. 1895 ; Birds from Cocos and Mal- 

 pelo Islands, with notes on Petrels ob- 

 tained at Sea, by C. H. Townseud, Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll..x^\n, 

 No. 3, July, 1895, Art. xvvii, pp. 121- 

 126. 



Mdiologist, ni, Nos. 4 and 5, New York, 

 Dec, 1895, pp. 53-55. 



Facts about squirrels. 



Am. Field, XLV, No. 4, New York and 

 Chicago, Jan. 25, 1896, p. 80. 



