336 Rectutly published Ornithological Works. [Ibis^ 



The Condor. 



[The Condor : A Magazine of Western Ornithology. Vols. xsi. & 

 xxii. for 1919 & 1920.] 



[Second ten-year Index to the ' Condor.' Vols, xi.-xx., 1909-1918. 

 By J. R. Pemberton. Hollywood, California, 1919.] 



Readers of the ' Condor ' and Members of Cooper Ornitho- 

 logical Club ought to be very grateful to JMr. Pemberton 

 for his most carefully constructed and ingenious Index to 

 the ten volumes of the 'Condor,' from 1909 to 1918. The 

 preparation of it occupied eighteen months of his time, but 

 the result appears to be extremely satisfactory, and all the 

 information contained in the vokimes can be referred to at 

 once, without any trouble. 



The longest article contained in the two volumes of the 

 'Condor' under review is that of JMrs. IMerriam Bailey on her 

 wanderings in the Dakota Lake region, in which she recounts 

 in a charming style her experiences and observations on the 

 birds of the western prairie region. A new feature of the 

 * Condor ' is a series of autobiographies, the longest and most 

 important of which is that of Mr. H. W. Henshaw, until 

 recently the Chief of the Biological Survey at Washington. 

 In his early days, in the seventies and eighties of the last 

 century, Mr, Henshaw was attached to the United States 

 Geological and Geographical Survey and travelled extensively 

 all over the Western States. It was during these years that 

 he amassed the large collection of American birds which sub- 

 sequently, through the generosity of the late Mr. Godman, 

 found a home in our Natural History Museum at South 

 Kensington. 



The 1919 volume contains, in addition, a number of 

 articles on the nesting-habits of some of the less well-known 

 western birds, generally illustrated by excellent photographs 

 beautifully reproduced. Such are the accounts of the 

 nesting of Townsend^s Solitaire (^Myadestes townsendi) near 

 the snow-line on Mt. Shasta in northern California by 

 Mr. W. L. Dawson, of the Short-eared Owl in Washington 

 State by Mr. E. H. Kitcliiu, and of the Red Crossbill in 

 British Columbia by Mr. J. H. Munro ; Mr. G. Willett, 



