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Bird - Lore 



find its way to the library of the nature- 

 lover.— F.M.C. 



The Book of Birds, Common Birds of 

 Town and Country and American 

 Game Birds. By Henry VV. Henshaw. 

 With Chapters on 'Encouraging Birds 

 around the Home' by F. H. Kennard; 

 'The Mysteries of Bird Migration,' by 

 Wells W. Cooke; and 'How Birds Can 

 Take Their Own Portraits,' by George 

 Shiras, 3d. Illustrated in natural colors, 

 with 250 paintings by Louis Agassiz 

 FuERTES. National Geographic Society, 

 Washington, D. C. Royal 8 vo. viii + 

 195 pages; many illustrations in color 

 and black and white. 



The Editor of the National Geographic 

 Magazine has here brought together the 

 various articles on birds which have ap- 

 peared in that publication and with which 

 the readers of Bird-Lore are doubtless 

 familiar. 



It is difficult to overestimate the educa- 

 tional value which these admirable articles 

 have already exerted, and we cannot 

 therefore be too thankful that they should 

 now be presented in a form which makes 

 them readily accessible. — F.M.C. 



How TO Have Bird Neighbors. By 

 S. Louise Patteson. Photographs by 

 the Author. D. C. Heath & Co., Boston, 

 New York, Chicago. i2mo. viii -)- 128 

 pages; numerous illustrations. 



In this book the author recounts her 

 experiences with bird neighbors in a man- 

 ner well designed to hold the attention of 

 the boys and girls to whom it is dedicated 

 and for whom it is written, as well as those 

 children of maturer years who find per- 

 petural youth in association with birds. 

 Numerous photographs from nature add 

 greatly to the value and realism of the 

 text.— F.M.C. 



Ornithological Magazines 



The Condor. — The January number of 

 'The Condor' contains seven general ar- 

 ticles, two of which relate to the nesting 

 habits of waterfowl. Munro describes the 

 habits of 'The Barrow Golden-eye in the 

 Okanagan Valley, B. C.,' with notes on 

 their nests. He attributes the birds' pref- 

 erence for strongly alkaline lakes to the 

 presence of certain small crustaceans which 



form the principal food of this Duck. In 

 a charming account of 'A Return to the 

 Dakota Lake Region,' Mrs. Bailey touches 

 on the various species of waterfowl met 

 with, including the White-winged Scoter, 

 which was found on the Sweetwater chain 

 of lakes. 



Squires and Hanson contribute a com- 

 prehensive review of 'The Destructon of 

 Birds at the Lighthouses on the Coast of 

 California,' based- on reports from thirty- 

 seven stations, only ten of which report any 

 destruction at all, and even here the de- 

 struction is slight and is confined mainly to 

 waterfowl and shore-birds. Wetmore, in 

 'A Note on the Tracheal Air-sac in the 

 Ruddy Duck,' states that further examina- 

 tion of birds in the field shows that this 

 air-sac is a secondary sexual character 

 found only in males, and that the birds 

 habitually keep the sac inflated, even 

 while diving. 



The remaining articles comprise three 

 local lists of rather unusual interest. 

 Mailliard gives an account of 'Early 

 Autumn Birds in Yosemite Valley' with a 

 list of twenty-three species that have 

 apparently not heretofore been recorded 

 from the floor of the valley. He overlooks 

 the fact that Ray collected eggs of Anna's 

 Hummingbird in i8q8, and that Muir 

 reported Lewis' Woodpecker from the 

 valley a number of years ago. In 'Notes on 

 Some Birds from Central Arizona,' 

 Swarth summarizes the results of his ob- 

 servations during a trip along 'The Apache 

 Trail' between Phoenix and Globe in the 

 summer of 191 7. Among other interesting 

 records he was able to add two species, 

 Bendire's Crossbill and the Indigo Bunt- 

 ing, to the state list, making the number of 

 species now known from Arizona 375. 

 The concluding article, by Quillin and 

 HoUeman, contains a list of eighty-two 

 species of 'Breeding Birds of Bexar County, 

 Texas.' In one of the brief notes Grinnell 

 calls attention to the fact that so far as 

 now known the White-rumped Petrel on the 

 California coast is^Beal's Petrel {Occano- 

 droma leucorhoa bcali), and that there is no 

 record of Kaeding's Petrel (0. /. kaedingi) 

 having been taken in the state. — T.S.P. 



