70 JOURNAL OF MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



These are useful in identification. Methods of transplanting and 

 propagating the plants are considered. 



iqii. Mearns, Edgar A. Descriptions of Seven New 

 African Grass Warblers of the Genus Cisticola. Smith- 

 sonian Miscellaneous Collection, 56, No. 23. 



Two species and five subspecies are here proposed. This is 

 the fifteenth paper based upon the results of the Smithsonian African 

 Expedition, under the direction of Col. Roosevelt. 



191 1. Mearns, Edgar A. Description of a New Species 

 of Sun-bird (Helionynipha raineyt) from British East Africa. 

 Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection, 56, No. 28. 



This is from the first lot of birds sent to the United States 

 National Museum by the Rainey African Expedition. 



191 1. "Wright, Horace W. The Birds of the Jeffer- 

 son Region in the White Mountains, New Hampshire. 

 Proceedings Manchester Institute of Arts and Science, Vol. V, 

 pp. 1-126. 



The author tells us that the region covered by this paper 

 includes primarily the territory of the town of Jefferson, also the 

 adjoining towns of Lancaster, Whitefield, Carroll, and Randolph 

 and the northern and western slopes of the Presidential Range to the 

 Crawford House Plateau. 



Twelve pages are devoted to a description of the region, in its 

 features affecting the bird life thereof, ninety-eight pages to the 

 annotated list of the birds, nearly six pages to additional notes for 

 the season of 191 1, and eight pages to a good index. The annotated 

 list and the additional notes present 188 species and subspecies (or 

 names) of birds that have been found in the region. The annotations 

 are full, sometimes extended, and based almost entirely on the per- 

 sonal observation either of the author, or a number of his corre- 

 spondents, to whom credit is carefully given. 



Published records seem to have been resorted to only where 

 more recent observations are wanting ; while this course may have 

 certain advantages in works of this kind, it eliminates oftentimes 

 interesting data. In the case of this list we might instance the 

 records of the Spruce Partridge for two seasons at Crawfords {Auk, 

 XXVI, pp. 428, 429). 



Probably the White Mountain region, from all points of view, 

 affords the most interesting and important physical and biological 

 features of the State of New Hampshire, and Mr. Wright's con- 

 tribution to the bird life of the section will be deservedly appreciated. 



