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date iiomenclatLire is not needed in editions 

 iilve a daily newspaper, and if 'Supplements' 

 are to appear every few months, bird 

 students will finally come to regard them, 

 right or wrong, only as a sort of nomencla- 

 tural yellow journalism.— J. D., Jr. 



The Osprev. — Three numbers (May, 

 June, and July) of ' I'he Osprey ' recently 

 have appeared, and, as usual, contain mat- 

 ter of considerable interest. The illustrated 

 paper on the 'Osprey or Fish Hawk,' 

 which Doctor Gill commenced in the initial 

 number of the current volume, is still con- 

 tinued, and Paul Bartsch concludes his 

 article on 'The Dismal Swamp.' To his 

 list of fifty-three summer residents, we can 

 add the following species: Night Heron, 

 Spotted Sandpiper, Bob-white, Dove, Bald 

 Eagle, Red - tailed and Broad - winged 

 Hawks, Phoebe, Fish Crow, Red-winged 

 Blackbird, Meadowlark, Goldfinch, Field 

 Sparrow, Barn Swallow, Brown Thrasher, 

 Long-billed Marsh Wren, and Bluebird. 

 Among the other original articles may be 

 mentioned ' William Swainson and His 

 Times' (part ix ) , by Doctor Gill; 'A 

 Canoe Trip Up the San Juan River, Mex- 

 ico,' by Percy Shufeldt ; 'My Story of a 

 Sharp-shinned Hawk,' by P.M. Silloway; 

 ' Stephens' Whippoorwill,' by J. H.Riley; 

 'Blue Grosbeak in Eastern Kansas,' by 

 W. S. Colvin ; 'Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher,' 

 and 'The Malar Stripe of Young Flickers,' 

 by Wm. Palmer; ' Tenants of Uncle Sam,' 

 and 'Camping on the Old Camp Grounds,' 

 by Paul Bartsch, and ' Notes on the Birds 

 of the Bermudas, with Descriptions of Two 

 New Subspecies [Cardinalis cardinalis 

 somersii and Sialia sialis bermudensis),' 

 by A. H. Verrill. Mr. Verrill is unfor- 

 tunate in losing both these subspecies, for 

 in the case of the Bluebird he overlooked 

 the fact that Linnaeus based his descrip- 

 tions on the Bermuda bird, and a de- 

 scription of the Cardinal by Bangs and 

 Bradlee appeared in 'The Auk ' fully two 

 weeks before his paper was issued. 



In the review of Doctor Dwight's paper 

 'On Sequence of Plumages and Moults' 

 there seems to have been some careless 

 proofreading, as 'nuptial,' both in its in- 



dependent and combined forms, is uni- 

 formly misspelled. 



The shorter notes are to be found under 

 the headings of 'Comments and Notes.' 

 —A. K. F. 



Wilson Bulletin No. 35. — This num- 

 ber of the Bulletin contains the following 

 articles: 'On the Occurrence of Two 

 Southern Birds in \'irginia,' and "Spring 

 Horizon, near Lynchburg, Va.,' hv J. W. 

 Daniel, Jr.; ' Helm'inthoph'ila p'liius in 

 Wisconsin,' by N. Hollister; 'The Red- 

 poll in South Carolina,' by W. J. Hoxie; 

 'Cardinal,' by T. D. Keim, and a num- 

 ber of interesting shorter communications 

 imder the heading of ' General Notes.' 



Fwo articles by Professor Lynds Jones 

 and the editor, on ' A Suggestion for 

 Work,' and ' Further Suggestions for Tak- 

 ing a Bird Census,' contain valuable hints 

 which should assist the student in learning 

 more of the life histories of birds. — A. K. F. 



Book News. 



All nature-lovers will learn with pleas- 

 ure of the promised early publication, by 

 Charles Scribner's Sons, of a new work by 

 Ernest Seton-Thompson to be entitled ' The 

 Lives of the Hunted.' 



McClure, Phillips & Co., announce for 

 early publication 'Songs of Nature,' a 

 selection by John Burroughs, of over two 

 hundred and twenty poems relating to 

 birds, flowers, the seasons, and nature. 

 Mr. Burroughs's fine judgment as a critic 

 and knowledge as naturalist will doubtless 

 make this collection one of unusual charm 

 and value. 



' The Birds of Princeton, New Jersey,' 

 by William Arthur Babson, a brochure of 

 some eighty pages, will soon be issued by 

 the Princeton Bird Club, under the editor- 

 ship of W. E. D. Scott, as its first Bulletin. 



We take pleasure in calling especial at- 

 tention to 'Nature Study,' a journal pub- 

 lished with commendable regularity each 

 month by the Manchester (N. H.) Institute 

 of Arts and Sciences. Its articles are all 

 original and, what does not always follow, 

 tiiey are both readable and valuable. 



