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The HoME-LiFt uf the Terns ok Sea 

 Swallows. By W. Hickerton. With- 

 erby & Co., 326 High Holborn, London, 

 W. C, 1912. 4to. 88 pages, 32 plates. 

 Price 6s., net. 



This is the fourth volume in 'The Bird- 

 Lover's Home-Life Series.' Like two of 

 its predecessors (the Golden Eagle b\- 

 Macphcrson and Osprey by Abbott), it is 

 of especial interest fur American readers, 

 since the species of which it treats, or 

 closely allied species, nest also in this 

 country. They are the Sandwich and the 

 Lesser Terns, Old World representatives re- 

 spectively of our Cabot's and Least Terns, 

 the Common, Roseate, and Arctic Terns. 



In Great Britain, the author states, the 

 .\rctic Tern is the most abundant and 

 widely distributed, "the Common Tern 

 is also very numerous, the Lesser Tern 

 less so, while the Sandwich Tern is de- 

 cidedly rare, and the Roseate extremely 

 so. . ." 



The author's observations, without 

 being especially intensive, present a gen- 

 eral and comparative review of the nesting- 

 habits of this subject, while his photo- 

 graphs are admirable representations of 

 birds which make particularly attractive 

 marks for the bird student with a camera. 

 — F. M. C. 



Report on the Immigrations of Summer 

 Residents in the Spring of 1911. 

 .\lso Notes on the Migratory Move- 

 ments and Records Received from 

 Lighthouses and Light-vessels during 

 the Autumn of 19 10. By the Committee 

 appointed by the British Ornitholo- 

 gists' Club. Edited bv W. R. Ogilvie- 

 Grant. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. 

 XXX, November, 1912. London With- 

 erby & Co., 326 High Holborn, 8vo, 

 332 pages, 19 maps. 



This Bulletin, like its predecessors, con- 

 tains reports on the movements of the 

 commoner migrants of England and Wales 

 by a corps of observers acting in coopera- 

 tion with a committee of the British 

 Ornithologists' Club. In addition to 



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details of weather conditions and i hief 

 movements, and comments on rarer 

 species, the report gives at length the data 

 for some 30 species, the migrations of 

 which, in most instances, are summarized 

 graphically on charts. 



Although southern England is ten 

 degrees farther north than New York 

 City, the following paragraph from the 

 Committee's Introduction almost e.xactly 

 describes the rise and fall of bird migra- 

 tion near that city, except that the maxi- 

 mum appears to have been reached in 

 England about one week earlier: 



"The spring migration commenced on 

 the 10th of March, and continued until 

 the 29th of May. During March the 

 influx, though daily increasing, was very 

 slight. The main movement seems to 

 have begun about a month later, and 

 during the latter half of .\pril there were 

 three distinct waves of migration — on the 

 17th and i8th, on the 23d, and on the 

 27th and aSth^each of increasing inten- 

 sity. There was another large influx on 

 the 5th of May, after which, with the 

 exception of two much smaller movements 

 on the 13th and i6th, the migration grad- 

 ually subsided." — F. M. C. 



The Ornithological Magazines 



The Auk. — Readers of the January 

 issue will find an unfamiliar group of 

 birds on the front cover, in place of the 

 old design so long familiar to readers of 

 The Auk. 



Within the covers are many articles 

 and items of interest to bird students and 

 others. In 'Some More Labrador Notes' 

 Dr. C. W. Townsend tells of a trip up the 

 Xatashquan River illustrating it with 

 half-tones of the country. Prof. H. L. 

 Clarke in 'Notes on the Panama Thrush- 

 Warbler' concludes, largely on anatomical 

 grounds, that the bird is a Tanager. Dr. 

 R. W. Shufeldt, in 'Contributions to 

 Avian Palaeontology,' discusses the status 



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