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could not be better illustrated than by this mid-winter census taking. It 

 covers the whole country except along the Mexican l)order and for a 

 short distance northward, where just now one might be excused from 

 ranging alone over the plains! The varied articles and notes which 

 appear regularly in " Bird-Lore ' ' make it a valuable magazine. L. J. 



"The Condor." January-February, 1914, Volume VI, Number 1. 

 Some truly astonishing results are portrayed by William Leon Dawson in 

 the opening article on "Direct approach as a method in bird photog- 

 raphy." Among the other articles in this number may be mentioned as 

 particularly worthy of mention that by Henry J. Bust on ' ' Some notes 

 on the nesting of the Sharp-shinned Hawk," with eight excellent half- 

 tone plates. Also Joseph Grinnell 's ' ' Second list of the birds of the 

 Berkeley Campus," where 97 species have been recorded, on the 530 

 acres. Bird classes would hardly need to make long trips to difficult 

 fields with such a bird haven right at hand. L. J. 



