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Aeknowleclgement is here made of books, paniiililets and papers 



which have been received, but which must await renewed strength 



for review. Ornithological literature is becoming pleasantly abun- 

 dant : 



The editor hopes to be able to present a full report of the studies 

 of bird movements on Pelee Island, which occupied a class of ten 

 students the whole of August and part of September. It was ex- 

 pected that this report would be ready for this issue, but the un- 

 kindness of the island in presenting to him who was to correlate 

 the facts gathered, with the germs of typhoid, prevented. 



We are glad to announce that the ^March issue of tlie Bulletin will 

 (outain a jiaper based upon careful studies uf the birds in southern 

 Illinois, in their relation to plant associations, by Frederick C. 

 (Jates of the I'niversity of Michigan, besides other papers and notes 

 of ex:*eptional value and interest. We have inside information that 

 an increasing number of persons are conducting summer studies 

 along the line of the relations of the birds to their environment. 

 Such studies should be written and submitted to the Bulletin for 

 publication. 



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DlSTRIBUTIOX A^■I) MIGRATION OF XORTH AMERICAN SHOREBIRDS." 



By Wells W. Cooke, Biol. Survey Bl^ll. No. 13. 

 This pamphlet contains a very thorough and painstaking com- 

 pilation of ornithological data on the Shorebii'ds of North America. 

 Under every species is noted the breeding and winter range, the 

 migration range, the spring and fall migration It is the first 

 pamphlet that has done the lumierous records to be found in the 

 Wilson Bulletin fair justice, in great contrast to Ridgway's Birds 

 of Middle and North America and the new A. O. U. Check List, 

 where records in the Bulletin have been persistently ignored, in 

 the face of the tact that all records and serious articles contain 

 scientific names. Nevertheless, as far as Ohio is concerned, a 

 few errors and omissions can be found, e.g. the earliest Ohio state 

 record in the spring for Toianus mchDiolciiciis is March 14. 1S99, 

 Pisohia ininuUUa. April 19. 1909, for Bartramla loiifiicaiithi. March 

 21. 1902, for Pis'ihia mucnlata:. March 24. 1909. etc. But we do 

 not want to pick Haws, and believe that these little faults do not 



