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has completed its first year ^ and reaches us as a bound volume of 246 pages, 

 well-filled with half-tone illustrations and popular bird matter. Sajs the 

 editor : "Our magazir^e is entirely different from anything hitherto pub- 

 lished, in that we propose to give the life history of four or five birds each 

 month, the illustrations of the birds being of sufficient size to be of value, 

 and the eggs of each bird illustrated /"«//5/2re " (p. 28). The illustrations 

 occupy usually a full page for each species, and are from original and very 

 creditable drawings, mostly by C K. Reed, with generally a page and a 

 half to two pages of text, giving the bird's range, a brief description of 

 its external characters, nest and eggs, and habits. The other matter of 

 each number of the magazine is made up of short contributions from 

 various writers, all of a popular character, well suited to the tastes of the 

 beginner and the general reader, illustrated often with half-tone reproduc- 

 tions of photographs of birds' nests and eggs, and young birds. Many of 

 the bird biographies are contributed articles, signed by the authors, those 

 unsigned being doubtless by the editor. The magazine is well printed 

 and the general make-up pleasing and attractive. It appears to be making 

 its way in the world, and is well-deserving of favorable reception on 

 the part of the public. — J. A. A. 



Silloway's ' Summer Birds of Flathead Lake.' ^ — This is a well anno- 

 tated list of 1 28 species observed in the Flathead Lake region of northern 

 Montana, from June 14 to August 30, 1900, and in June and July, 1901. 

 Of this number 120 species are thought to breed in this region, the other 

 eight being presumably migrants from further north. The list proper is 

 preceded (pp. 3-8) by a description of the topography of the region, which 

 includes Sin-Yale-a-min Lake and McDonald Lake, in the Mission Moun- 

 tains, as well as Flathead Lake ; and also by ' Oological Notes from Flat- 

 head Lake' (pp. 9-36). These relate to 24 species found nesting in 

 greater or less abundance at Flathead Lake, June 14 to July 5, 1900, and 

 in many cases their nesting habits are described at considerable length. 

 Under the heading ' Summary and Conclusions,' the author notes that 

 the range of the long-tailed Chat (^Icteria vtrens loiigicauda) has been 

 traced to "beyond the middle line of the State" of Montana. He also 

 refers to the abundance of the Western Evening Grosbeak in the immedi- 



' American Ornithology. For the Home and School. Edited by C. Albert 

 Reed. Vol. L Worcester, Mass. Chas. K. Reed, publisher. 1901. — 8vo. 

 pp. 246, copiously illustrated with half tone plates and text cuts. 



^ Summer Birds of Flathead Lake. By P. M. Silloway, Fergus County 

 High School, author of ' Some Common Birds.' Prepared at the University 

 of Montana Biological Station, under direction of Morton J. Elrod, University 

 of Montana, Missoula, Montana, 1901. Svo pp. 1-83, pU. i-xvi= Bulletin of 

 the University of Montana, No. 3, Biological Series No. i. 



