1917-] lii'ceyitlij publisJted Ornithological Works. 259 



the habits of a number of species not often written about. 

 Tlie author is the Kev. Charles R. Dawson, S.J. 



The Condor. 



[The Condor. A Magazine of -western Ornitholo^vr. Vol. xviii. 

 No9. 1-0, 1910. Cooper Ornithological Club. Hollywood, C^l., 

 U.S.A.] 



As is usually the case, most of the articles in the last 

 completed volume oP the 'Condor' deal witii the birds oc 

 California or the neighbouring western States of the Union. 

 In fact, the only pajjcr on what may be termed exotic 

 ornithology is one by Dr. T. W. Richards, of the U.S. Navy, 

 on birds nesting at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in which he 

 gives a more particular account of the nest of the Grasquit, 

 Tiaris canora, a species which finds a place in the A. O. U. 

 List by virtue of its accidental occurrence on Sombrero Key 

 off the southern extremity of Florida. 



Among faunal papers Mr. S. G. Jewett contributes an 

 account of some new and rare records from Oregon, and 

 Hotes on some birds of Tillamook county in the same State ; 

 Mr. R. H. Palmer sends a description of the bird rookeries 

 in some of the islands of Great Salt Lake in Utah, where the 

 California and Ring-billed Gulls, White Pelicans, and Blue 

 Herons nest in countless numbers ; Mr. N. de W. Betts 

 writes on the birds of Montana, Mr. Pierce on those of the 

 San Barnardino Mountains of California, and Mr. A. B. 

 Howell on those of Arizona during the winter months. 



Mrs. Miriam Bailey continues her very readable series of 

 sketches of bird-life in the western States, dealing succes- 

 sively with the sloughs and marshes of Dakota, the lakes 

 of Dakota, the sea-beaches near Los Angeles in California, 

 and the prairies df southern Texas along the Mexican 

 border. 



Articles on single species, generally illustrated with 

 photographs of nests and eggs, are those by Mr. Huey 

 on Creciscus coturniculus, the Farallon Rail, in southern 

 California, by Mr. Skinner on the Nutcracker oi Ycllow- 



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