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and entered upon its second decade of usefulness. Such well 

 known ornithologists as Witmer Stone, Samuel N. Rhoads, 

 Thomas H. Montgomery, Jr., Charles J. Pennock, George 

 Spencer Morris, William E. Hughes, and others, are numbered 

 in active membership; and like the esteemed A. O. U. is well 

 balanced by a long list of associates. The Club is doing good 

 work in keeping alive the interest in local ornithology and pre- 

 serving many of the most important Pennsylvania and New 

 Jersey record. No. Ill contains a summary of the proceedings 

 for the years 1898 and 1899. This pamphlet of 28 pages is 

 brimful of Interesting notes and records. Many of the mem- 

 bers have had more than local experience as collectors, which 

 together with the local news and observations, and the almost 

 inexhaustible collections of the Academy to draw upon; serve 

 to make the meetings a great source of pleasure and profit to 

 those of regular attendance. To hear the personal experiences 

 of ornithologists but recently returned from Yucatan, Green- 

 land, Alaska, and other remote places, adds the larger measure 

 of reality so often lacking in a printed page. Edward A. Mc- 

 Ilhenny's account of the nesting of the Snowy Owl at Point 

 Barrovv, Northern Alaska (as many as sixty nests being found in 

 one day) is of peculiar interest. The following papers have been 

 revised and published in full : "Birds of the Blizzard of Feb- 

 ruary 1899." "Migration Data on City Hall Tower." "Summer 

 Birds of the Higher Parts of Sullivan and Wyoming Counties, 

 Pa," No. IV is for the year 1900. We note among the dates 

 and localities of the more important records, the addition of the 

 Chestnut-sided Warbler, Dcndroica pensylvanica, to the list of 

 breeders in Chester County, Penna., by the well known oologist, 

 Samuel B. Lodd. The following papers are given intact: "Some 

 Observations on the Habits of Crossbills {Loxia C. minor) Ob- 

 served at Hanover, N. J., May 4-6, 1900." "Recent Capture 

 of ivory-billed Woodpeckers {Campephiliis principalis') in Flor- 

 ida." "Bird Language an Index of Family Relationship." Out- 

 side of the peculiar medley produced by the careless use and 

 disuse of capitals in the common names of birds, in one of the 

 .articles; this pamphlet is equal to its predecessor in neatness. 



[F. L. B.]. 



