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says: "Several of my friends were 

 sure of having seen tliis species in 

 summer, but I am not aware that it 

 has previously been preserved or re- 

 corded as occurring in Maine at this 

 season." The Journal would be 

 pleased to receive notes or observa- 

 tions of this species from its readers. 



Bmong ©ur lEicbangce. 



Birds of Fergus County, Montana, 

 is the title of a neat list put out as 

 "Bulletin No 1, Fergus County High 

 School," and is compiled by the 

 principal. Prof. Perley M. Silloway. 

 In this list the status of each species 

 found in the county is given, together 

 with the distinguishing features of 

 each species or sub-species. The work 

 is profusely illustrated by photographs 

 of birds, nests and eggs from Prof. 

 M. J. Elrod of the University of Mon- 

 tana and E. R. Warren of Colorado, 

 Springs. On the whole, this Bulletin 

 is a very interesting work and a 

 credit to this progressive school and 

 to Prof. Silloway. J. M. S. 



We are glad to note that the Oolo- 

 gist, a little magazine so well known 

 in former years to all of us, is to be 

 revived and improved. We presume 

 its owner and founder, Dr. F. H. Lat- 

 tin, has been too busy in the last year 

 or two with his official business to 

 devote much time to his little maga- 

 zine, but Mr. Ernest H. Short of Chili, 

 N. Y., is to assume full charge of it 

 and we doubt not it will again be 

 brought up to its old standard. 



Bird-lore in its Nov. -Dec. issue, 

 which completes Vol. V, begins a 

 series of articles on "The Migration 

 of the Warblers" by Prof. W. W. 

 Cook of the U. S. Biological Survey, 

 illustrated by colored plates from the 

 drawings of Louis Agassiz, Fuertes 

 and Bruce Horsfall. These plates are 

 works of art and of much value to the 

 bird student and the teacher as well, 

 and will help to make Bird -lore one 

 of the foremost magazines for bird 

 students in America. 



With the January number Ameri- 

 can Ornithology begins its IVth 

 volume. Commencing with the Jan- 

 uary number the publishers will give 

 in addition to the numerous photos 

 of birds, nests and eggs, two or more 



full page color plates of birds. These 

 will show the male and female birds 

 in breeding plumage, also in winter 

 plumage, and the young when the 

 plumage differs from the adult birds. 

 Mr. Reed seems determined to keep 

 us guessing as to what next we may 

 expect in his bright and valuable bird 

 magazine. 



Practically all we eastern bird men 

 know of the bird life on the Farrallone 

 islands off the coast of California has 

 been supplied by the members of the 

 Cooper Ornithological Club of that 

 state. The Condor, their official or- 

 gan, in the Sept. -Oct. number con- 

 tains a valuable contribution entitled 

 "Bird Life on the Farallones," finely 

 illustrated from photographs by the 

 author, Mr. H. B. Kaeding, secretary 

 of the northern division of the club. 

 Other articles of especial interest are 

 "Some Observations on the Nesting 

 Habits of the Prairie Falcon" by D. 

 A. Cohen, and "With the Mearns 

 Quail in Southwestern Texas" by L. 

 A. Fuertes. The Condor continues to 

 keep well to the front as a bright, 

 instructive bird magazine and if our 

 eastern bird students would keep in 

 touch with ornithology on the Pacific 

 coast they must read the Condor. 



The November issue of The Atlantic 

 Slope Naturalist, edited by W. E. 

 Rotzell, M. D., of Narbeth, Penn., 

 reaches our exchange table and is 

 full of interesting material. We note 

 articles from the pen of such popular 

 writers as VVm. L. Kells of Listowell, 

 Ont., and Dr. Morris Gibbs of Kala- 

 mazoo, Mich., and W. J. Hoxie of 

 Savannah, Ga., all of whom the read- 

 ers of the old Boston O. & O. are 

 familiar. 



Two very interesting bulletins pub- 

 lished by the U. S. fish commission, 

 Nos. 531 and 532, by William Converse 

 Kendall, one of our active members, 

 reache us. "Notes on Some Fresh 

 Water Fishes from Maine" and "Hab- 

 its of Some of the Commercial Cat 

 Fishes" are the titles of the above 

 bulletins and are full of interest to 

 the student of nature. 



"The Food and Game Fishes of New 

 York" by Tarleton H. Bean is another 

 interesting work on the fishes that 

 reaches us. It is profusely illustrated 

 with 29 plates and 132 text figures. 



