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of fossil Wild Turkeys with a plalc show- 

 ing bone fragments, and also takes up 

 the fossil birds of the Oregon desert. 



As an example of careful observations 

 concentrated on a familiar species, we 

 commend Dr. W. H. Bergtold's 'A study 



of the House Finch." Well-directed 

 efforts of this sort contribute much to our 

 general knowledge, and are within the 

 reach of every bird student. One of the 

 striking facts here brought out is that, 

 in spite of great mortality among the 



COMMU.X TERX AXU NEST 

 from Bicktrton's ' Homc-Liie of the Terns. ' Courtesy of Witherby & Co. 



