Recently published Ornithological Works. 697 



perhaps the Pici and Macrochires, but that this is not always 

 the case in short flights, when it takes a little time to get the 

 legs into position. From Mr. B. S. Bowdish's account o£ 

 the reports from " Andubon Wardens " in protected areas we 

 gather that public opinion in the U.S. is more favourable 

 to bird-preservation than formerly, and that the numbers 

 of birds are increasing in most places, despite a cold and 

 stormy breeding-season, but that gunners are still trouble- 

 some in Florida and minks destructive in Maine. Mr. A. H. 

 Howell writes on tlie summer birds of Northern Georgia, 

 where he acted in connexion with the Biological Survey, and 

 visited the districts round Tate, Ellejay, and Young Harris. 

 The country is described and a list of 7Q species furnished, 

 with short notes. Mr. T. J. Cole discusses '^tagging" as a 

 means of studying the movements of birds, and gives a plan 

 for securing more definite data by the use of aluminium bands 

 on the tarsus and the proper keeping of records. He seems 

 unaware of the work in this direction carried out at Rossitten. 

 Mr. M'Coy furnishes new records and important range- 

 extensions of Colorado birds. Mr. S. S. Visher has a paper 

 on those of Western South Dakota, similar to that of 

 Mr. Howell, with 194 species, but shorter notes. Mr. W. 

 Brewster reports an undoubted Barrow's Golden-eye from 

 Massachusetts and writes at length on former records of that 

 bird. He also discusses the nomenclature of the Black Ducks, 

 and substitutes A. rubripes tristis for A. obscura rubripes. 

 Lastly, Mr. J. A. Allen gives a most interesting account of 

 the " Habitat groups " in the American Museum of Natural 

 History, which must be read to be fully appreciated, while 

 the four plates give a good idea of the excellence of the 

 arrangement. 



A report of the twenty-sixth stated meeting of the A. O. U. 

 is added to the January Number. 



84. ' The Avicultural Magazine.' 



[Avicultural Magazine. The Journal of the Avicultural Society. New 

 Series. Vol. vii. Nos. 6-10 (April- August, 1909).] 



In these numbers perhaps we should first mention 

 Mr. R. I. Pocock's account of the display of the cock Ostrich, 



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