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suit the American avifauna; and Falco tinnunculus is ex- 

 cluded. Several proposed changes of generic and specific 

 names, however, are not accepted. The list as a whole 

 should be consulted by our readers. 



In the October number Mr. S. Trotter conducts an 

 interesting " Inquiry into the history of the current English 

 names of North American land-birds," beginning with a 

 "Nomina Avium of Arch, ^Elfric" (955-1020 a.d.) and 

 descending through eleventh and fifteenth century lists to 

 the days of Catesby, Bartram, Barton, Kulm, Wilson, and 

 later writers. Mr. S. Stansell writes ou the birds of Central 

 Alberta, describing the style of the country and the species 

 found there, and incidentally the nests of Totanus solitarius 

 and Hesperiphona vespertina. Mr. T. S. Roberts gives us a 

 life-study of an American bird (Xanthocephalus xantho- 

 cephahis) in its breeding-colonies, with nine excellent photo- 

 graphs ; Mr. E. Blackwelder furnishes a list of the birds 

 observed in Iron County, Michigan, during a three months' 

 geological survey in summer ; Mr. H. W. Wright notices 

 the nesting of Vermivora pinus in Massachusetts : and 

 Dr. J. Dwight, Junr., retells the extraordinary story of the 

 Black Duck (cf. 'Auk, 5 1909, p. 175), proving that the 

 red-legged form is merely the adult of the brown-legged. 

 Finally, Mr. W. W. Cooke gives his third Supplement to 

 the " Birds of Colorado," with a bibliography of Coloradan 

 ornithology; it extends over 22 pages, and forms a valuable 

 addition to his former publications on the subject. 



4. ' Avicultural Magazine.' 



[Avicultural Magazine. The Journal of the Avicultural Society. 

 New Series. Vol. vii. Nos. 11, 12 (September, October, 1909).] 



These two numbers contain useful articles on the habits 

 of the following species in captivity, with notes on the 

 breeding of most of them: — Phalaropus hyperboreus (received 

 from Iceland, by Mr. C. B. Smith), Monticola saxatilis and 

 Estrilda angolensis (by Mr. K. Phillipps), Myiadestes 

 luwnsendi and Cissopis leveriana (by Mr. H. D. Astley) > 



