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BOOKS RECEIVED 



Report of the Superiutendent of 

 National Zoological Park, for year 

 ending June 30th, 1922. 



This publication consists of but 

 fourteen pages and is a comprehensive 

 resume of the activities of that insti- 

 tution during the period covered and 

 shows four hundred and eighty-two 

 species on hand June 30th last includ- 

 ed in which are the following: Mam- 

 mals 490, birds 1069, reptiles 122. 

 Something over two hundred people 

 visited this exhibit during those 

 twelve months. The appropriation by 

 Congress being $125,200 for the main- 

 tenance, and should be doubled. — R. 

 M. Barnes. 



"Wild Fowl Lore" 



Volume 29, No. 349 January 1923, 

 American Forestry, contains a splen- 

 did article under the foregoing cap- 

 tion, from the accurate and reliable 

 pen of Dr. R. W. Schufeldt. Many 

 North American Ducks are considered 

 in it. 



It is illustrated by eleven hair-tone 

 cuts ranging from 3i/^ by 3% inches 

 to full page illustrations. It is truly 

 wonderful what an amount of read- 

 able or reliable scientific information 

 is found in Dr. Schufeldt's publi- 

 tion, and we are proud to list him as 

 a friend and contributor to The 

 Oologist.^ — R. M. Barnes. 



The Murrelet, State Museum, Uni- 

 versity of Washington, Seattle, Wash- 

 ington, Volume 3^, No. 3, September 

 1922, of this splendid mimeograph 

 serial, is at hand and there are few 

 if any bird publications that are here 

 which are more welcome. 



This is a fine bird publication filled 

 with fresh notes direct from the ob- 

 servers in the field. To peruse it 

 gives the readers the real thrill from 

 the wilds. It is not over technical. 



but its contributors are men of known 

 scientific ability for writing interest- 

 ingly and accurately all things which 

 interest the average ornithologist, and 

 which the ultra-scientific closet natu- 

 ralist seems to have so little interest 

 in.^ — R. M. Barnes. 



"Transactions of the Academy of 

 Science, St. Louis," XXIV, No. 8. 



This publication of seventy-seven 

 pages consists of "Extracts of the 

 Diary of Otto Widmann," and covers 

 the following subjects: Nesting habits 

 of the Purple Martin, How young birds 

 are fed. Where the Martins roost. 

 The Crows winter roost at St. Louis, 

 Our birds in winter, The Chimney 

 Swift, Birds of the Ozarks, Reminis- 

 cences of a visit to Branson and White 

 River, spring 1906. 



This little publication is typically 

 Widmann in its splendid delineation 

 of the bird subjects treated and ac- 

 curacy of statement. 



It is splendidly gotten up mechan- 

 ically and the contents are up to the 

 best standard. Mr. Widmann and the 

 Society are both entitled to congratu- 

 lations upon this production. — R. M. B. 



"Annals of the Carnegie Museum," 

 XIV October 1922. This exceedingly 

 well prepared publication of 611 pages 

 relates to "The Birds of the Santa Mar- 

 ta Region of Columbia; being a study in 

 altitudinal destruction by W. E. Clyde 

 Todd, and M. A. Carriker, Jr.," and 

 describes among other things the 

 geographical and physiographic — geo- 

 logical history, climate-population, re- 

 sources, echological conditions of the 

 territory covered and a Historical 

 Review of Santa Marta Ornithology. 

 List of species. North American mi- 

 grants; Life Zones of the region, and 

 a review of the various species en- 

 countered. The latter occupying pages 

 131-583. The publication is embellish- 



