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Schmidt, who secured three specimens 

 (one broken) in May and June, 1913, and 

 incidentally substantiated the Eskimo 

 reports that the birds nested in the moun- 

 tains. Possibly the closely related Mar- 

 bled Murrelet may have similar habits, 

 which will explain in part the failure thus 

 far to discover its nesting-place. 



Fayre Kenagy describes the 'Change in 

 Fauna' on the Minidoka Project in South 

 Central Idaho, and gives a table showing 

 the fluctuation in numbers, during the 

 last seven years, of nineteen species of 

 birds, due to irrigation. 



Under the caption 'Resident versus 

 Visitant,' Dawson takes issue with the 

 recent attempt to restrict the term 'resi- 

 dent' to species which remain in a locality 

 throughout the year, declaring that "it 

 is grossly inappropriate to call any breed- 

 ing bird a 'visitant' in its breeding-home." 

 Grinnell, in an editorial note, is equally 

 positive that "Birds are either resident 

 or migratory; if they migrate they can 7iot 

 be resident; hence such an incongruity as 

 winter resident is impossible!" 



In referring to the Annual Directory, 

 which closes the number, it is interesting 

 to remember that the Cooper Club was 

 organized twenty-one years ago. Begin- 

 ning with a membership of four, in June 

 1893, it has steadily increased until it now 

 has six honorary and four hundred and 

 thirty-three active members. — T. S. P. 



Wilson Bulletin. — -The March num- 

 ber of this Quarterly (Vol. XXVI, No. i) 

 opens with an illustrated study of the 

 Woodcock, by Gerard Alan Abbott; R. 

 W. Shufeldt writes a somewhat rambling 

 dissertation on Owls, accompanying it 

 with two photographs and a reproduction 

 of a painting of Snowy Owls by Gerhard 

 Heilmann. Ira N. Gabrielson gives some 

 interesting 'Pied-billed Grebe Notes,' in 

 which he records seeing, on August 19, 

 1913, a flock containing about two hun- 

 dred of these Grebes, which is twice as 

 large a flock as the reviewer has noted. 

 Ernest W. Vickers writes a graphic 

 description of the roll or drumming of 

 the Pileated Woodpecker, and Lynds 



Jones discusses the bird-life of northern 

 Ohio during the winter of 1913-14. 

 Professor Jones also contributes 'A Brief 

 History of the Wilson Ornithological 

 Club,' which was organized on December 

 3, 1888. Elsewhere in this number of the 

 Bulletin appear the minutes of the meet- 

 ing of the Club held in Chicago on Feb- 

 ruary 5 and 6, 1914. Heretofore the work 

 of the Club and communication between 

 its members has been conducted by cor- 

 respondence. Henceforth it is proposed 

 to hold regular meetings, and the evident 

 success of the meeting seems fully to 

 warrant the adoption of this plan. 



Further articles in this number are by 

 Geo. L. Fordyce, who writes on 'Changes 

 in the Avifauna of Youngstown, Ohio,' 

 incident to the building of reservoirs, 

 which have added some 60 species to 

 those observed by him in the preceding 

 ten years, and a detailed review of Reiche- 

 now's 'Handbuch der Systematischen 

 Ornithilogie,' by W. F. Henninger. There 

 are also editorials, field-notes, and reviews. 

 — F. M. C. 



Book News 



The National Geographic Magazine 

 for May, 1914, makes a notable contribu- 

 tion to popular ornithology in an article by 

 Henry W. Henshaw on 'Birds of Town and 

 Country,' with 64 illustrations in color by 

 Louis Agassiz Fuertes. This article, with 

 a similar one by Mr. Henshaw in the issue 

 of the same magazine for June, 1913, with 

 50 colored illustrations by Fuertes, a 

 paper by F. H. Kennard on 'Encouraging 

 Birds around the Home' and a study of 

 certain phases of bird migration by Wells 

 W. Cooke, has been bound in one volume. 

 Copies may be obtained from the National 

 Geographic Society, Washington, D. C, 

 at one dollar each. 



The fourth part of Mr. Fuertes' 'Im- 

 pressions of the Voices of Tropical Birds' 

 will appear in the next issue of Bird-Lore. 

 This magazine has published few articles 

 which have been more warmly commended 

 than these graphic descriptions by Mr. 

 Fuertes. 



