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Bulletin of the Essex County Orni- 

 thological Club. Vol. i, No. i, Dec, 

 iqiq. Salem, Mass. 55 pages; 1 line- 

 cut. 



The Essex County Ornithological Club, 

 organized April 10, 1916, presents in this, 

 its first bulletin, a history of the Club, 

 a record of its regular and field-meet- 

 ings, together with papers on 'The Identi- 

 fication of Hawks in the Field' by Charles 

 \V. Townsend; 'Cooperative Effort in Bird- 

 Study,' by Arthur A. Osborne; various 

 notes and an account, by Ralph Lawson, 

 of 'Thirteen Ipswich River Bird Trips' in 

 the first of which the Club had its origin. 

 The story of these party trips bespeaks 

 the good fellowship born of community of 

 interests and shows how even an annual 

 function may work its influence throughout 

 the year. 



The membership roll of the Essex 

 County Ornithological (why not Bird?) 

 Club and the record of its activities 

 indicate that it has before it a long and 

 useful life.— F. M. C. 



The Raptorial Birds of Iowa. By Bert 

 Heald Bailey, M.S., M.D. Bulletin 

 Xo. 6, Iowa Geological Survey. Des 

 Moines, 1918. 238 pages; numerous 

 maps and illustrations. 



The economic status, general habits, 

 distribution and bibliography of the forty 

 species and subspecies of Hawks and Owls 

 recorded from Iowa are here presented 

 at length. There are photographs of, for 

 the greater part, excellently mounted 

 specimens in the Coe College Museum, of 

 which Dr. Bailey was curator, and maps 

 recording the distribution in Iowa of the 

 birds treated. The whole forms an admir- 

 able monograph of a group of birds of 

 great economic importance, concerning the 

 value of which the public cannot be told 

 too often. 



Dr. Bailey unfortunately did not live 

 to complete the manuscript of this work, 

 and it was brought to completion and 

 edited by his colleague, Miss Clementina 

 Sinclair Spencer. — F. M. C. 



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Bird-Houses and Nesting-Boxes. By 

 Edward Howe Forbush. Circular Xo. 

 10, Massachusetts Department of Agri- 

 culture. 28 pages; numerous illustra- 

 tions. 



Outdoor Bird-Study. Hints for Be- 

 ginners. By Edward Howe Forbush. 

 Circular Xo. 12. Massachusetts De- 

 partment of Agriculture. 51 pages; 

 numerous illustrations. 



Here are two publications of practical 

 value to students and lovers of birds. 

 Air. Forbush knows his audience by actual 

 contact and has in a marked degree the 

 gift of meeting its wants. We hope that 

 these two bulletins will have a wide cir- 

 culation, not only in the state which we 

 have to thank for them, but throughout 

 the Union.— F. M. C. 



The Birds of Red Deer River, Alberta. 

 By P. A. Taverner. From 'The Auk ; ' 

 xxxvi, iqiq, pages 1-2 1; 248-265; 

 plls. 4. 



The Birds of Shoal Lake, Manitoba. 

 By P. A. Taverner. 'The Ottawa 

 Naturalist,' xxxn, 1919 pages 137-144; 

 157-164; xxxni, iqiq, pages 12-20. 



The first of the above-mentioned papers 

 is based chiefly upon field work between 

 June 25 and September 26, 191 7, when a 

 voyage of nearly 200 miles was made by 

 Mr. Taverner and his assistant, Mr. C. H. 

 Young, down the Red Deer River. Eleven 

 camps were established at different places 

 as bases from which to work the adjoining 

 territory. There is an excellent descrip- 

 tion of the region traversed and a well- 

 annotated list of 194 species. 



Mr. Taverner's studies of Shoal Lake 

 birds were made by himself and Mr. Young 

 for a short period in the spring and fall of 

 191 7 and were supplemented by Mr. 

 Young's observations and collections from 

 April 23 to October 2, 1918. Access to the 

 notes, published and unpublished, of other 

 observers gives a total of 212 species for 

 the district. 



It is difficult for the reviewer to re- 

 cognize in the photograph on page 139 of 

 the far-stretching, boulder-strewn shore 



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