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as game, ^harc all the benelUs and none of 

 the penalties of oduijving game preserves. 



But L\rn I In- game l)ir(ls themselves 

 benefit 1)\- liu- acts designed for their 

 protection as well as their destruction. 

 We recall a certain ducking club in the 

 South whose members annually kill some 

 2,500 Ducks, chiefly Mallards. The num- 

 ber seems large, but the present head- 

 keeper of the clul) informed the writer 

 thai prior to the formation of the pre- 

 serve, he alone as a market gunner, shot 

 as many birds each season as all the mem- 

 bers and their guests now kill; and he was 

 one among many market gunners, who shot 

 over the what is now preserved ground. 



Dr. Palmer's paper is, therefore, a 

 timely contribution to a subject of in- 

 terest not alone to sportsmen, but to 

 bird-lovers as well.^F. M. C. 



Pl.\nts Useful to Attract Birds .a.nd 

 Protect Fruit. By W. L. McAtee, 

 Assistant, Biological Survey. Yearbook 

 of Department of Agriculture for 1909, 

 pp. 185-190. 



Mr. McAtee's pamphlet gives exactly 

 the information for which bird-lovers fre- 

 quently ask. He tells us not only what 

 plants and trees bear fruit which will at- 

 tract birds, but also what species of plants 

 will thrive best in certain regions. 



The subject has a wide practical bear- 

 ing, for not only may we protect valuable 

 fruits by supplying birds with other kinds 

 of food, but an increased food-supply may, 

 in many cases, mean an increase in the 

 number of birds. — F. M. C. 



Progress of G.\me Protection in 1909. 

 By T. S. Palmer, Henry Oldys and 

 C. E. Brewster, Bureau of Biological 

 Survey. Circular No. 73, May 21, 1910. 

 19 pages. 



This excellent annual summary of in- 

 formation relating to the relative abun- 

 dance of game, parks, refuges and reserva- 

 tions, importation of foreign birds, admin- 

 istration and enforcement of game laws 

 legislation, during the past year shows, 

 on the whole, a most encouraging condi- 

 tion of aft'airs. — F. M. C. 



The Ornithological Magazines 



The Condor. -Of tiie five general 

 articles in the May 'Condor,' .V. P. 

 Smith's Miscellaneous liird Notes from 

 the Lower Rio Grande,' which occupies 

 nearly half of the number, is the longest 

 and most important. Striking changes in 

 the avifauna of this region have occurred 

 in the last 30 years since the publication 

 of the observations of Merrill and Scn- 

 nett, among which are the practical dis- 

 appearance, near Brownsville, of the Cha- 

 chalaca, Wild Turkey, and Fulvous Tree 

 Duck, and the appearance of the Chestnut- 

 bellied Scaled Quail and several of the 

 smaller birds. Pigeons and Doves are 

 represented by six species and Orioles by 

 five. 



Two illustrated papers deal with the 

 nesting habits of species from widely 

 separated regions, viz: 'Notes on the 

 Northwestern Crossbill,' near Spokane, 

 Washington, by J. W. Preston; and 'The 

 Olive Warbler {Dendroica olivacea) in 

 Southern Arizona,' by F. C. Willard. The 

 other two papers are practically local 

 lists. Ray's account of a trip 'From Tahoe 

 to Washoe,' in June, 1909, calls attention 

 to the abundance at Washoe Lake, Nev., 

 of the Killdeer and other birds usually 

 found near marshes. Swarth's 'Miscellan- 

 eous Records from Southern Cahfornia 

 and Arizona' are based on specimens in 

 the collections of F. 0. Johnson and W. B. 

 Judson of Los Angeles, recently acquired 

 by the California Museum of Vertebrate 

 Zoology. Among the 'eastern' birds re- 

 corded are a Blue-winged Teal, obtained 

 in the Los Angeles market, in January, 

 1895, and a White-crowned sparrow 

 (Zonotrichia leucophrys), collected at Palm 

 Springs, Calif., April 26, 1889. Among the 

 brief notes is a record, by F. C. Willard, 

 of a Texas Kingfisher 'Seen on a Day's 

 Outing in Southern Arizona' on the San 

 Pedro river, near Fairbanks, February 13, 

 1910. Although this species was reported 

 by Dr. Coues from the Colorado river in 

 1865, it does not seem to have been ob- 

 served in .\rizona since that time. — T.S.P. 



