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The Ornithological Magazines. 



The Auk for April, 1908, contains the usual valuable articles 

 and notes. Mr. Ruthven Deane, of Chicago, contributes more 

 interesting Audubon letters and an article on the Passenger Pigeon 

 in Confinement. There are articles on the Bird Colonies of the 

 Olympiades, List of Birds of Louisiana, and Notes on Birds of 

 Colorado and Missouri. 



The Condor for March-April, 1908, has a continuation of the life 

 history of the Condor, and notes from Santa Catalina Island, Whet- 

 stone Mountains in Arizona, San Clemente island, as well as data 

 from field and study. There is an illustrated article on the Rhea. 



Two numbers of Bird-Lo7'e have arrived since the. last issue of 

 the Journal. The articles on the Thrushes have been completed, 

 and in these two issues the Flycatchers are pictured and described. 

 The portraits are excellent, but they are naturall}' so similar that 

 one might be substituted lor the other without attracting criticism. 

 Horsfall's portrait of the Song Sparrow is almost as good as the 

 Tolman photograph recently published in the Journal, and it 

 closel}^ resembles it. 



The Wilson Bulletiji has been much enlarged and improved. 

 The March number has 56 pages and an unusual amount of inter- 

 esting and profitable matter. Prof. Lynds Jones continues to be 

 the President of the Wilson Club and the editor of the magazine. 



The Guide to Nature is a new nature magazine published at 

 Stamford, Conn. It is well printed and finely illustrated, and its 

 design is to cover the whole field of nature stud)^ in a popular and 

 scientific way. If the succeeding numbers are as good as the first, 

 the magazine will be well worth while. 



Cassinia, a bird annual, containing the proceedings of the 

 Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, of Philadelphia, as well as 

 many valuable articles on the birds of that region, has just been 

 published for 1907. 



The Wisconsin Arbor and Bird Day Annual \\z.% been received. 

 It is devoted to good literature on birds and trees. 



The Zoological Bulletin of the Division of Zoology of the Penn- 

 sylvania Department of Agriculture, edited by H. A. Surface, has 

 been received. It has an excellent article on the Purple Martin, 

 written by J. Warren Jacobs, of Waynesburg, Penn., and contains 

 much information concerning the value and methods of preservation 

 of birds. 



The Report of the Work of the Biological Survey tells in detail 

 what that important department has been doing the past year. It is 

 a pleasure to know that the Biological Survey is no longer threatened 

 by economists who have no conception of the service it is doing. 



