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described in 1831, the eggs have remained 

 unknown until discovered by the author 

 on Pyramid Peak, Cal., on June 22, 1910. 

 The nest, composed of dry grass stems 

 and roots, was placed among the boulders, 

 150 feet below the summit of the Peak 

 (10,020 feet), and contained four eggs, 

 which are described as '"pure white, un- 

 marked, ovate-pyriform in shape," and 

 average .90 x .62 inches. Under the title 

 'Rouge et Noir,' Dawson describes a col- 

 lecting trip to Clover Creek, south of 

 Tacoma, Wash., on May 12, 1910, on 

 which were obtained nests and eggs of 

 the Tawny Creeper, Chestnut-backed 

 Chickadee, aiid Sooty Grouse. Willett's 

 account of 'A Summer Trip to the North- 

 ern Santa Barbara Islands' records the 

 nesting of the California Brown Pelican, 

 in June 1910. on Anacapa Island, the only 

 locality where this species is known to 

 breed north of the Mexican boundary. 



Among the articles in the November 

 number, mention should be made of A. B. 

 Howell's 'Notes from Los Coronados 

 Islands,' which contains some important 

 facts on the nesting of Xantus' Murrelet. 

 This bird is supposed to nest twice a year, 

 once about the last of March and again 

 about the middle of June, and as far as 

 known does not now breed at any point 

 north of these islands. The opportunities 

 for studying birds at the Barr Lakes, Colo., 

 are exemplified by Rockwell's 'Nesting 

 Notes on the American Eared Grebe and 

 Pied-billed Grebe' in 1907 and 1908. In 

 'Bird Notes from Southwestern Montana,' 

 Saunders describes the nests of Wilson's 

 Snipe, Pileolated Warbler, Lincoln's Spar- 

 row, Mountain Chickadee, Red-naped and 

 Williamson's Sapsuckers found on a trip 

 made in 1910. An index to volume XII, 

 with which the number closes, shows that 

 this volume contains 218 pages and is a 

 little smaller than the two preceding ones. 

 — T. S. P. 



Book News 



AMERIC.A.N Conservation", a new illus- 

 trated monthly magazine, will be issued 

 b}' the National Conservation Association, 

 as its official bulletin, beginning February 



I, 191 1. It will be of general interest to 

 all, but it should be of special interest to 

 students, speakers, librarians, members 

 of clubs and all others who are studying 

 conservation questions. The annual sub- 

 scription of $2.00 may be sent to the Nat- 

 tional Conservation Association, Colo- 

 rado Building, Washington, D. C. 



In response to a widely felt and urgent 

 need for a periodical in which studies of 

 the behavior and mental life of organisms 

 may satisfactorily be published, 'The 

 Journal of Animal Behavior' has been 

 established under a thoroughly represent- 

 ative Editorial Board. 



The 'Journal' will accept for publication 

 field studies of the habits, instincts, social 

 relations, etc., of animals, as well as labora- 

 tory studies of animal behavior or animal 

 psychology. It is hoped that the organ 

 may serve to bring into more sympathetic 

 and mutually helpful relations the "nat- 

 uralists" and the "experimentalists" of 

 America, that it may encourage the pub- 

 lication of many carefully made naturalis- 

 tic observations which at present are not 

 published, and that it may present to a 

 wide circle of nature-loving readers accu- 

 rate accounts of the lives of animals. 



Beginning with January, 191 1, the 

 Journal will appear bi-monthly in numbers 

 of approximately 75 pages. The subscrip- 

 tion price, $3.00 per volume, may be sent 

 to the Journal at Emerson Hall. Cam- 

 bridge. Mass. 



WiTHERBY & Co. of 326 High Holborn, 

 London, W. C, announce the publication 

 of the first part of Mr. Gregory M.Mathews' 

 elaborate work on the 'Birds of Australia.' 

 The work will be issued in folio parts, at 

 two guineas a part, and will contain hand- 

 colored illustrations of every species of 

 Australian Birds. The author has lived all 

 his life in Australia, and has devoted many 

 years to the preparation of his text. He 

 will have the active assistance of field-orni- 

 thologists throughout Australia, and his 

 undertaking should, when completed, form 

 an adequate monograph of the bird-life of 

 this most interesting part of the world. 



