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on Crawfish, other crustaceans, and 

 insects. Terns, also, have been held 

 responsible for the serious reduction of 

 food- fishes in some localities, but a careful 

 stud}' of their food habits demonstrates 

 that only a small proportion of their diet 

 consists of such fishes." 



Among the species treated arc the 

 Prairie Chicken, California Quail, Ruffed 

 Grouse, introduced Pheasants (Phasianus), 

 Upland Plover, Killdeer, Franklin's Gull, 

 Common and Black Terns, Cooper's, 

 Rough-legged, and Sparrow Hawks, 

 Long-cared and Screech Owls. — F. M. C. 



The Birds of the Jefferson Region in 

 THE White Mountains, New Hamp- 

 shire. By Horace W. Wright, Proc. 

 of the Manchester Inst., V, part i, igii. 

 8vo. 126 pages. 



The author states that "the region 

 covered in this paper includes primarily 

 the town of Jefferson, also that of the 

 adjoining towns of Lancaster, Whitefield, 

 Carroll, and Randolph, and the northern 

 and western slopes of the Presidential 

 Range to the Crawford House plateau." 

 In this area he has "carried on active and 

 systematic observation for twelve success- 

 ive seasons, beginning with 1899. The 

 period of my observation, year by year, 

 has extended from late May or the first 

 days of June to the early days or the middle 

 of October." 



For observations on winter birds, Mr. 

 Wright is fortunate in having had the 

 cooperation of F. B. Spalding, long known 

 as an authority on the birds of Lancaster. 

 It is evident, therefore, that he is in a 

 position to speak with authority on the 

 bird-life of the region in question, and to 

 discuss the various faunal changes which 

 have occurred within the period covered 

 by his studies. 



The list proper treats of 188 species 

 and subspecies of birds, the annotations 

 relating mainly to the manner, place, 

 and time of occurence, and to their song 

 periods; and the information here pre- 

 sented makes this paper the starting point 

 for all further bird work in the Jefferson 

 Region. — F. M. C. 



The Ornithological Magazines 



The Condor. — The Ma\' number of 'The 

 Condor' contains only two general articles, 

 'Some North-central Colorado Bird Notes,' 

 by E. R. Warren, and 'An Afternoon's 

 Field Notes,' by Joseph Grinnell. Warren's 

 paper, accompanied by a map and repro- 

 ductions of twelve photographs, is an 

 account of an extended wagon trip made 

 in 1911. Leaving Colorado Springs, May 

 18, he traversed the plains northeastward 

 almost to the northern boundary of the 

 state, then traveled westward to Steam- 

 boat Springs, and thence back to Denver 

 which was reached August 8. Although 

 105 species of birds were observed on the 

 trip, there was a remarkable scarcity of 

 V'ireos and Warblers. No Vireos were 

 seen; Macgillivray's Warbler and the 

 Pileolated Warbler were each seen once, 

 and the Yellow Warbler was found at 

 half a dozen places. 



Grinnell's paper is an excerpt from a 

 field note-book presented as an illustration 

 of rather full notes in narrative style, as 

 they were written on the spot. It is a 

 record of two hours' observation of birds, 

 at Glendora, Cal., during an afternoon 

 in May, 1907. With the author's conten- 

 tion that a card system for field notes is 

 absolutely impracticable we can not 

 agree. Some collectors find it very service- 

 able within certain limits, and the notes 

 here given could easily be recorded on 

 cards if the observer were so inclined. 



Among the short notes, Chambers calls 

 attention to an inexcusable slaughter of 

 Band-tailed Pigeons which occurred during 

 the past winter near Los Olivos in Santa 

 Barbara Countj\ He estimates that 

 about 3,000 were killed in one day. For 

 some reason the Band-tailed Pigeon 

 has never had adequate protection in 

 California, and it should be removed at 

 once from the game list, if it is not soon 

 to suffer the same fate as the Passenger 

 Pigeon. 



Hersey records "Two New Birds of 

 Colorado" — the Lapland Longspur taken 

 December 28, about 18 miles northeast 

 of Denver, and the Sierra Thrush, of 



