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THE OOLOGIST 



The O. and O. Semi-Annual. 

 The Spy Glass. 

 The Sunny South Oologist. 

 The Taxidermist (Medina, O.) 

 The Wisconsin Naturalist (Madison, 

 Wis.) 

 Zoe. 



Early Solitary Sandpipers. 



In my paper on "Early Sandpipers 

 in Philadelphia County, Pa." in the 

 :November, 1912, Oologist, (p. 370) 

 there occurs this palpable error, — 

 ■"the latest I have ever seen the spe- 

 cies here has been August 10 (two 

 records)." It should have been Octo- 

 ber 10th. 



This year (1912) I have also seen 

 several early transient Solitary Sand- 

 pipers. On July 16, I observed one 

 at the identical place (Frankford) 

 where I saw a bird on July 18 and 25, 

 1911, and it is my next earliest record. 

 While camping in late July on the 

 North Branch of the Pensauken Creek, 

 In Burlington County, New Jersey, on 

 July 27 I saw a lone Solitary Sandpip- 

 er and on the following day three birds 

 were seen together at the same place. 



Richard F'. Miller. 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



Books Received. 



The Breeding Birds of Southern 

 Center County, Pennsylvania, by Rich- 

 ard C. Harlow. 



This is a very excellent treatise 

 in this paper, published in Volume 

 XXIX, pp. 479 of The Auk, and is a 

 cerefully prepared, exhaustive local 

 list. 



Annual Report of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, 1911. 



This report, as previous ones, con- 

 tains many interesting papers on var- 

 ious subjects; those in this volume be- 

 ing: 



"A History of certain Great Horned 

 Owls," by Charles R. Qeyes. 



"The Passenger Pigeon," by Peter 

 Kalm (1759) and John James Audubon 

 (1831). 



"Note on the Iridescent Colors of 

 Birds and Insects," by A. Mallock. 



"On the Positions Assumed by Birds 

 in Flight," by Bethany Beetham. 

 ..A Revision of the Forms of the 

 Great Blue Heron, by Harry C. Ober- 

 hauser, December 12, 1912; a separate 

 from Volume 43, page 531-59, proceed- 

 ings of the U. S. National Museum. 



This revision evidences the same 

 painstaking attention that is shown by 

 all of Oberhauser's papers. It design- 

 ates nine varieties of this bird of 

 which Ardea herodias adoxa, and A. h. 

 hyperonca, and A. h. oligista are new; 

 but of course it is not confined to the 

 territory covered by the A. O. U. 

 check list. 



Albino Meadowlark. 

 Last September a farmer friend 

 brought me a fine specimen of Albino 

 Meadowlark which he captured in his 

 meadow. It had been set upon by other 

 birds until exhausted. The bird was 

 in pure white plumage with exception 

 of the breast which was of the pure 

 cadmium yellow. The pink eyes were 

 especially prominent. As the bird 

 was alive and in good condition T put 

 it in a cage and placed in the front 

 window of my store. A card asked 

 "What is it?" and only Dr. Jessee, our 

 other Bird Man was able to name it. 

 It was my first experience with Al- 

 binos. 



Isaac E. Hess. 

 Philo, Ills. 



Winter Ornithology. 

 In the published diary of the unfor- 

 tunate Captain Scott, who recently 

 perished in the Antarctic, is found 

 some information relative to the breed- 

 ing habits of the Emperor Penguin. 

 He states that on June 27th — mid- 



