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W. Cooke, and treats of the Routes of Bird-Migration with 

 reference to Mexico and Texas. Florida and Yucatan, and 

 some " inferential " routes. In this subject the author of 

 the ' Report on Bird Migration in the Mississippi Valley ' 

 established a reputation some seventeen years ago. Natu- 

 rally, however, its interest is mainly for American ornitho- 

 logists, whereas students on this side of the water will also 

 be attracted by Mr. Austin F. Clark's investigation (pp. 134- 

 140) of the migration in the western Atlantic of such Waders 

 as the American Golden Plover, Spotted Sandpiper, and 

 Yellowshank, The facts adduced are of great interest and 

 the questions still unsolved merit careful consideration. 

 Mr. Ruthven Deane contributes letters, hitherto unpublished: 

 one from Swainson to Audubon, one from the great ornitho- 

 logist himself, and several to him from John James Abert. De- 

 serving of attention is an article by Dr. Jonathan Dwight, Jr., 

 on plumage- wear in its relation to pallid subspecies ; and one 

 of the author's pertinent remarks, or roasting and bleaching 

 respectively, is that " no one would think of calling a sun- 

 burnt man a subspecies, but the sunburnt plumage of the 

 breeding bird is a fair mark for subspecific description ! " 

 Mrs. Irene C. Wheelock gives her experiences on the regur- 

 gitative feeding of nestlings, and there is no lack of conten- 

 tious matter in the seventeen pages devoted to the subject. 

 Summer Birds in the Bahamas is the title of an interesting 

 paper, accompanied by a map and photogravures, by Mr. 

 Glover M. Allen. A residence in Montana has enabled a 

 member of the B. O. U., Mr. E. S. Cameron, to give an 

 admirable account of the nesting of the Golden Eagle on 

 the scoriaceous rocks in the " bad lands." Photogravures 

 shew the site of the nest, the contents, and the young up to 

 the time that they are able to fly, with many details of the 

 habits of the parent birds ; in fact wc do not remember to 

 have read elsewhere such an attractive life-history of this 

 fine Raptor. The pity is that in Montana the bird has been 

 almost exterminated by poisoned carcases set for wolves and 

 coyotes; and poison, we may remark, has been a very 

 important cause of the approaching extinction of the Golden 

 Eagle in Ireland. — H. S. 



