Recently published Ornithological Works. 453 



birds is being gradually acquired. la the laboratory of the 

 Biological Survey at Washington 109 stomachs of Coccyzus 

 americanus and 46 of C. erythrophthalmus, from twenty 

 different States, were examined and found to contain, 

 with one exception, only insect-food — beetles, grasshoppers, 

 caterpillars, &c. — of which full particulars are given by 

 Mr. Beal. 



Dr. Judd, who reports on the Shrikes {Lanius ludovicianus 

 and L. borealis), states that, so far as determined from the 

 examination of 155 stomachs of these birds collected during 

 every month of the year all over the United States, their food 

 consists of mice, small birds, and insects, the last beiug 

 mainly grasshoppers. 



There can be no question, therefore, of the beneficial 

 action on agriculture in North America of both of these 

 groups of birds. 



Q7. ' Bird- Lore: 



[Bird -Lore, a Bi-monthly Magazine devoted to the Study and Protec- 

 tion of Birds. Edited by Frank M. Chapman. Vol. i. No. 1. February 

 1899.] 



We have received a copy of the first number of ' Bird- 

 Lore,^ a new popular ornithological magazine edited by 

 Mr. Frank M. Chapman and published at New York by the 

 ]\Iacmillan Company. It is to be the organ of the '' Audubon 

 Societies^' which are now being instituted in many States of 

 the Union for the protection of birds. We are told that 

 every prominent American writer on " birds in nature " has 

 promised to contribute to 'Bird-Lore' during the present 

 year, and we have a good sample of the style of its articles 

 and illustrations in the present number. We need only add 

 that we cordially wish success to the new journal and to the 

 worthy cause it represents. 



68. Butler on the Birds of Perah. 



[Birds Collected and Observed on the L 

 pril 1898. By A. L. Butler, F.Z.S. 8vo 



Mr. A. L. Butler, F.Z.S., Curator of the State Museum 



[Birds Collected and Observed on the Larut Hills, Perak, March and 

 April 1898. By A. L. Butler, F.Z.S. 8vo. Singapore, 1898.] 



