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Bird- Lore 



Last, but not least in historical import- 

 ance, is Mr. J. H. Sage's annual report on 

 the 'Twenty-seventh Stated Meeting of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union.' There 

 are also many notes and reviews of im- 

 portance. — -J. D., Jr. 



The Condor. — Nine articles, all but 

 two brief, and five of them illustrated, 

 make up the varied contents of the No- 

 vember number of 'The Condor.' In 

 'Some Bird Accidents,' Finley gives an 

 account of half a dozen fatalities that 

 have come under his notice, and references 

 to several described by other observers. 

 Willet's 'Bird Notes from the Coast of 

 San Luis Obispo County' (Cal.), contains 

 some interesting facts regarding the breed- 

 ing of sea birds. In speaking of the Brandt 

 Cormorants (Phalacrocorox penicillatus) 

 he says: "We concluded that the moss 

 composing the lining of the nests is all 

 brought up from deep water, as the birds 

 could be seen energetically diving for it 

 in the deeper water, although it was plenti- 

 ful in the shallows and on the rocks." 

 Di.xon's 'Life History of the Northern 

 Bald Eagle,' the principal paper in this 

 number, is illustrated with two photo- 

 graphs of nests and two of young birds 

 found on Hawkins and Admiralty Islands, 

 Alaska. The Hawkins Island nest mea- 

 sured 8 by ID feet outside, with a depth of 

 4 feet and a nest cavity 12 inches across 

 and 4 inches deep. Under the title of 'The 

 Flammulated Screech Owl,' Willard gives 

 an account of two nests found in the Hua- 

 chuca Mountains, Ariz., in May, 1909, and 

 incidentally calls attention to the fact that 

 the iris in this species is dark chocolate- 

 brown, instead of yellow, as in other Owls. 



In 'Further Notes from San Clement e 

 Island,' Linton adds twenty-six species 

 to his list published in March, 1908; and 

 in 'A Collection of Birds from Forty-mile, 

 Yukon' Territory,' Grinnell contributes 

 brief notes on fifty-nine species. Ray 

 gives a short account of 'Some Sierran 

 Nests of the Brewer Blackbird,' illustrated 

 by two photographs of a nest built on a 

 pile in a wharf, at Bijou, on Lake Tahoe. 

 'The Nesting of the Broad-tailed Hum- 



mingbird' on Squaw Creek, Gallatin county, 

 Montana, is briefly described by Saunders 

 from a nest containing two well-incubated 

 eggs, found June 28, 1909. Colorado 

 ornithologists will be interested in Burnett's 

 account of the life and work of 'An Early 

 Colorado Ornithologist, William G. Smith,' 

 1841-1900. The index with which the 

 number concludes shows that volume XI, 

 for 1909, contains 224 pages. — T. S. P. 



Book News 



We have received from the Delaware 

 Valley Ornithological Club, with a request 

 that it be not reviewed, a 'Souvenir' book- 

 let commemorating the Club's twentieth 

 birthday. While this attractive and excep- 

 tionally interesting publication invites a 

 more e.xtended notice than is usually ac- 

 corded more weighty documents, we resist 

 the temptation to violate the confidence of 

 the Club. But at least we may say that 

 the contents of this pamphlet gives evi- 

 dence of a good fellowship, which, in con- 

 nection with the fact that it had the right 

 kind of Stone in its foundation, goes far 

 toward explaining the success of the D. V. 

 O. C. 



In his 'Analysis of Nebraska's Bird 

 Fauna,' (Proc. Neb. Orn. Union, IV, 2, 

 pp. 25-55, ills. i-VI), Dr. R. H. Wolcott 

 shows that the state may be divided into 

 five natural regions; their names, with 

 the number of summer resident birds 

 found in each are as follows: The Mis- 

 souri Region, 144; Prairie Region, 132; 

 Sand- Hill Region, 99; Plains Region, 

 104; Pine Ridge Region, 67. The paper is 

 well illustrated by a colored map, showing 

 the areas of each region and by photo- 

 graphs of characteristic scenery. 



North American Fauna, No. 30, by 

 Wilfred H. Osgood, contains lists of the 

 'Birds of East Central Alaska' (pp. 33-44), 

 of the 'Birds of the Ogilvie Range' (pp. 

 58-65), and of the 'Birds of the Mac- 

 millan region' (pp. 84-92). Aside from 

 remarks on distribution, the annotations 

 contain much of general interest in regard 

 to the habits of the species treated. 



