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photographs, contains an account of the 

 habits of the bird, and the Indian methods 

 of cooking the Rhea and its eggs. Con- 

 siderable attention is devoted to the birds 

 of the Santa Barbara Islands in 'Spring 

 Notes from Santa Catalina Island,' on 

 twenty-nine species, by C. H. Richardson, 

 Jr., and ' Notes from San Clemenle Island,' 

 by C. B. Linton. The latter paper is an 

 annotated list of fifty-eight species, based 

 on observations made in 1907, and con- 

 tains a record of the Harris Sparrow 

 {Zonotrichia qiicnilii), apparently the 

 second for the state. A third formal paper 

 is that by A. P. Smith, containing some 

 general notes on the birds of the Whet- 

 stone mountains, Arizona. 



Two articles devoted to nesting habits 

 of certain birds also deserve mention, — 

 one on the Phainopepla, by Harriet W. 

 Myers, and the other on the Great Blue 

 Heron, by H. W. Carriger and J. R. Pem- 

 berton. Three text figures in the latter 

 paper illustrate the unusual nesting-site 

 of a colony of Herons near Redwood City, 

 Cal. These birds, driven from their 

 former breeding-place in the tops of some 

 eucalyptus trees, constructed their nests 

 on the ground far out in the marsh. 



' Some Hints on the Preparation of an 

 Oological Collection,' by R. B. Rockwell, 

 may be read with profit by those interested 

 in collecting eggs. In the editorial columns 

 attention is called to the California Mu- 

 seum of Vertebrate Zoology, recently 

 established at the University of California, 

 at Berkeley, through the generosity of 

 Miss Annie M. Alexander; and to the 

 present status of the California .\cademy 

 of Sciences in San Francisco. The col- 

 lection of birds belonging to the .\cademy 

 now numbers more than 11,000 specimens. 



The May number stands out in strong 

 contrast on account of its lack of illus- 

 trations. The only illustration is that of 

 the nest of the Mexican Black Hawk in a 

 brief article by G. B. Thomas, based on 

 observations on this Hawk made in British 

 Honduras. An important paper by J. 

 E. Thayer and Outram Bangs, on the 

 birds of Guadalupe island, indicates that 

 three of the species peculiar to the island — 



the Guadalupe Caracara, the Guadalupe 

 Wren, and the Guadalupe Towhee — are 

 now extinct. Swarth contributes 'Some 

 Fall Migration Notes from [southern] 

 .\rizona,' on one hundred and nine species, 

 and Linton continues his papers on the 

 birds of the Santa Barbara islands, with 

 'Notes from Santa Cruz Island,' contain- 

 ing an annotated list of eighty-eight 

 species. Among the shorter articles are 

 those on 'A Migration Wave of Varied 

 Thrushes,' by Joseph Mailliard, 'The 

 Waltzing Instinct in Ostriches,' by F. W. 

 D'Evelyn, and 'Three Nests of Note from 

 Northern California,' by Harry H. Shel- 

 don.— T. S. P. 



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WiTHERBY & Co. request us to state 

 that 'How to Attract and Protect Wild 

 Birds — A Full Description of Successful 

 Methods,' may be obtained from the 

 National .\ssociation of .\udubon Socie- 

 ties, 141 Broadway, New York City. 



D. Appletox & Co. announce for 

 publication in November, "Camps and 

 Cruises of an Ornithologist,' by Frank 

 M. Chapman. The work is based on its 

 author's eight-seasons' field-work while 

 gathering material and making studies 

 for the " Habitat Groups" in the American 

 Museum of Natural History, and will be 

 illustrated by upward of 250 photographs. 



Recent publications by the Bureau of 

 Biological Survey include ' Directory of 

 Officials and Organizations Concerned 

 With the Protection of Birds and Game, 

 190S,' by T. S. Palmer; a wall chart show- 

 ing the "Close Seasons for Game in the 

 United States and Canada, 1908, com- 

 piled by T. S. Palmer, and Henry Oldys; 

 and ' Game Protection in 1909' by Henry 

 Oldys; 'The Game Resources of Alaska,' 

 by Wilfred H. Osgood; "Does it Pay the 

 Farmer to Protect Birds' (of which we 

 shall write later) by H. W. Henshaw. The 

 three last-named papers are from the 

 'year-book' for 1907. Copies of these 

 publications may be obtained from the 

 Bureau at Washington. 



