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Frederic H. ICennard. The second article, b.v Francis Harper, is 

 " Oljservations in a Langlilns Gull Colony." in which the author 

 has given some intei'esting bits of the life history of the colony 

 studied on Cobb's Island. Four text photographs accompany the 

 article. The remaining three general articles are of the interest- 

 ing popular sort. There follow the migration records of the three 

 towhees which are figuered on the frontispiece, and "The Massa- 

 chusetts Audubon Society's Bird-Lists."' The department of the 

 Audubon Society contains a colored plate of the Yellow-headed 

 Blackbird and portraits of Captain M. B. Davis and Mr. L. F. 

 Dommerich, both recently deceased and both intei'ested in bird 

 protection. 



L. J. 



The Condor. — The July-August number contains fifteen half- 

 tone plates of unusual interest and excellence, and one map. This 

 magazine holds the record for the excellence of its 'half-tone fig- 

 ures. In the first article Florence Merriam Bailey discusses the 

 " Birds of the Cottonwood Groves " at Glorieta, in an interesting 

 running account, which makes one want to visit the place. Mr. 

 Robert B. Rockwell, in the second article, accompanies an inter- 

 esting discussion of some wading birds of the Barr Lake Region, 

 Colorado, with excellent half-tones of nests and eggs and .young 

 birds. Mr. Harold C. Bryant shows both in a full text treatment 

 and a map of California " The Present and Future Status of the 

 California Valley Quail." Milton S. Ray writes of "A Journey to 

 the Star Lake Country and other notes from the Tahoe Region," 

 with two text figures. Wells W. Cooke discusses "The Present 

 Status of the Colorado Check-List of Birds," from w^hich it appears 

 that seven of the 395 species included in Schlater's book in 1912 

 may be open to question, but that fifteen species are to be added 

 to that list, which makes the Colorado list number 403 species. 



L. J. 



Field Notes 



NOTES FROM THE TRI-RESERVOIR REGION IN OHIO. 



The year 1911 brought a great number of Shovellers up this way 

 in the spring. On March 22 the first one, a female, was shot at 

 a small pond, and later oil 5 (4 males, 1 female) found tJheir way 

 into my collection, shot on April 5th and the 15th, on the Loramie 

 Reservoir. Usually this duck is only seen singly or in pairs in 

 this region as well as in Ohio in general. 



On March 20t1h, 1911, a fine female Marila collarls was taken 

 at the Loramie Reservoir and Is now in my collection. On March 



