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young that had just left the nest. On the same day a young bird of this 

 species was taken for me by Prof. W. E. Rumsey. 



On a long mountain ridge that lies between Big Sugar Creek and Little 

 Sugar Creek, at the head- waters of Klk Hiver, I found the Magnolia Warb- 

 ler to be one of the most abundant speoies on the 14th of August, 1899. 



Dendroica cerulea. — Wonderfully abundant in W'ood County on the 

 hills just back from the Ohio River. Breeds in the open oak woods on 

 top of the hills. 



Dendroica pensylvanica.^ A nest of the Chestnut-sided Warbler was 

 founil in the ghidos of Webster County on July 2. 1907. It was neatly 

 placed in the top of a clammy azalea, about 8 feet from the ground. The 

 azalea was in full bloom. There were two young birds in the nest. Many 

 other birds were .seen, and all were evidently nesting. — Earle A. Brooks, 

 Weston. WcM Virfjinia. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Rothschild's 'Extinct Birds." '- Mr. Rothschild, as is well known, has 

 been for years acti^•ely interested in the subject of vanishing birds, and we 

 expected to find in the present expensive work a complete and final accoinit 

 of the species now known to be extinct, but in this we are di.sappointed. 

 As stated on the title page, this is "an attempt to luiite in one volume a 

 short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times 

 — that is, within the last six or seven hundred years," which means that 

 the author has included in his work the numerous fossil birds of the New 

 Zealand and INIascarene regions. As a matter of fact, the accounts of fossil 

 birds (i. c, those known only from their osseous remains), overbalance 

 those of the recently extinct ones, since some 90 of the former are treated, 

 compared with 76 of the latter, while over 50 pages of the book are perfectly 

 blank. 



Of the fossil birds we shall have little to say here. It may be mentioned, 

 however, that colored figures are given of Mcgaloptcryx huttoni and Dinor- 

 nis ingcns. representing them as they are supposed to have existed in life. 

 If correctly delineated, the Mccjoloptcryx must have been a very extra- 



J Extinct Birds. | An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of | those 

 Birds which have become extinct in historical ! times — that is. within the last six 

 or seven | hundred years. To which are | added a few which still | exist, but are on 

 I the verge of | extinction. | By | The Hon. Walter Rothschild, | Ph. D., F. Z. S.l 

 With 45 coloured Plates, embracing 63 subjects, and | other illustrations. | London.] 

 Hutcliinson & Co., Paternoster Row, E. C. | 1907 — Small folio, pp. i-xxix -t- 1-244, 

 45 colored plates, and 4 plates of outlines. 



