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Bird -Lore 



work which we have long hoped might be 

 done on Gardiner's Island, a locality 

 which offers unique opportunities for 

 ecological investigation. — F. M. C 



A Contribution to the Ornithology 

 OF THE Bahama Islands. By W. E. 

 Clyde Todd and W. W. Worthing- 

 TON. Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 

 VIII., Nos. 3-4, 1911, pp. 388-464, I 

 map. 



From December 24, 1908, to May 13, 

 1909, Mr. Worthington collected birds on 

 New Providence, Great Inaugua, Acklin, 

 Watlings, Andros, and Abaco Islands, in 

 the interests of the Carnegie Museum. In 

 this paper he presents a 'Narrative of 

 the Expedition' and 'Field Notes' on the 

 species observed, while Mr. Todd con- 

 tributes the 'Introduction' and 'Critical 

 Notes' on the specimens; the whole 

 forming an important contribution to our 

 more definite knowledge of distribution 

 and relations of the birds of this interest- 

 ing group of islands. — F. M. C. 



The American Bird-House Journal for 

 191 2. By J. Warren Jacobs, Waynes- 

 burg, Pa. 



Mr. Jacobs proposes to continue his 

 important contributions to the natural 

 history of the Purple Martin, and ways 

 and means of promoting its increase 

 through the erection of nesting-houses, 

 under the above heading. The present 

 publication contains some fifty pages, 

 many illustrations, and much pertinent 

 matter in relation to the habits of Mar- 

 tins, based on the experiences of Mr. 

 Jacobs and his numerous correspondents. 

 — F. M. C. 



The Ornithological Magazines 



The Condor. — Of the five general 

 articles in the January number of 'The 

 Condor,' the first, by Bowles and Howell, 

 on 'The Shore Birds of Santa Barbara' 

 merits special mention. Notes are given 

 on twenty-nine species, attention is 

 called to the economic value of the 

 Plovers, Phalaropes and smaller Sand- 

 pipers, and to the desirability of removing 

 them from the game list. The paper is 



illustrated by one of Dawson's photo- 

 graphs, showing Long-billed Dowitchers 

 feeding, and three photographs of Phala- 

 ropes by Bowles. 



Ray's account of a trip 'Through 

 Tahoean Mountains' in 1909, and Swarth's 

 '\'isit to Nootka Sound" in 1910, both 

 illustrated, are somewhat different from 

 ordinary 'local lists,' and much more 

 interesting to the general reader. The 

 Tahoe trip occupied about two weeks, and 

 during this time observations were reported 

 on ten species of birds, five of which were 

 found nesting. Nootka Sound, on Van- 

 couver Island, has many historical asso- 

 ciations, but its chief interest to the 

 ornithologist lies in the fact that it is the 

 tj'^pe locality, or place where the original 

 specimens were collected, of the Rufous 

 Hummingbird, Red-breasted Sapsucker, 

 Blue-fronted Jay, and Varied Thrush. 

 Swarth succeeded in securing examples of 

 all except the Sapsucker. The paper closes 

 with a nominal list of forty-nine species 

 observed. 



Saunders' 'Birds of Southwestern Mon- 

 tana,' containing notes on one hundred 

 and fifty species found in the most thickly 

 settled part of the state, is a welcome 

 contribution, as little or nothing has here- 

 tofore been published on the avifauna of 

 this region. Chester Lamb's 'Birds of a 

 Mohave Desert Oasis' is likewise a list 

 of more than ordinary interest, from the 

 fact that it comprises twelve months' 

 observation, from August i, 1910, to 

 August I, 191 1, of the birds at a desert 

 water-hole, nine miles east of Daggett, 

 California. Of the one hundred and 

 thirty-three species observed at this 

 apparently unpromising locality, forty- 

 two were water-birds or shore-birds. 



Attention is called to the appointment 

 of F. S. Daggett as Director of the new 

 Museum of History, Science and Art, in 

 Los Angeles. Mr. Daggett's personal col- 

 lection of 8,000 birds, 3,000 species of 

 Coleoptera, thirty-six large drawers of but- 

 terflies, and his ornithological library of 

 1,800 volumes, and about as many pam- 

 phlets, will be deposited in the Museum. 

 — T. S. P. 



