Vol.^xyill j Recent Literature. 2O9 



Migration,' and an annotated list of the 36 species observed (pp. 355-363). 

 He says, " Siibspecific names are omitted; otherwise the nomenclature 

 conforms to the A. O. U- 'Check-List,' second edition and eighth and 

 ninth supplements." So when we read (p. 357) : " I have examined the 

 specimen upon which Dr. Cooper based his California record of Uria 

 lomvia (Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., Vol. V, p. 414; Auk, III, p. 126) and find 

 it is an immature Uria troile" we must understand the reference to U. 

 troile to mean U. troile californica ! There is more or less comment on 

 the transition stages of plumage of various species observed, but no 

 reference to the condition of the specimens as regards moulting, which, 

 in some of the species at least, must have been in progress. The paper 

 is a valuable contribution to a better knowledge of the local movements 

 and spring migration of Pacific Coast water birds.— J. A. A. 



Grinnell on Alaskan Birds. 1 — This paper records 21 species from the 

 Pribilof Islands, based on specimens in the collection of the Leland 

 Stanford Universitv, adding two species, nameh , Totanus melanoleuais 

 and Saxicola cenantha, to the list of previously recorded species, which now 

 number 72. Four are recorded from Amagnak Island, 4 from Belkovski 

 Bav, 3 from Unga Island, 19 from Kadiak Island, and iS from Prince 

 William Sound. A new subspecies of Savanna Sparrow is described 

 from Kadiak Island, under the name Am7nodratnus sand-ivickensis xantho- 

 phrys. The Leucosticte kadiaka McGregor is considered to be a subspe- 

 cies of L. tepkrocotis, and griseonucha is believed to be also merely a 

 subspecies of tefhrocotis, he having specimens in hand which " indicate 

 an almost complete gradation " between them. Of the Barn Swallow he 

 savs : "The Alaska skins I have examined (Kotzebue Sound and Sitka) 

 do not seem to differ on an average in wing measurements and extent 

 of white markings on the tail, from United States specimens," and the 

 specimen recorded from Nutchuk, Prince William Sound, "does not 

 appear to answer to the characters assigned by Palmer {cf. anlea, p. 176) to 

 unalaschejisis. — J. A. A. 



Mrs. Eckstorm's ' The Bird Book.' 2 — This is one of D. C. Heath and 

 Company's ' supplementary reading ' books for schools. To quote from 

 the preface : " The arrangement of the book has two ends in view : to adapt 

 the study to the school year, and to present it so that when the pupil begins 

 field work he shall be able to do it with some general idea of what is 



' Record of Alaskan Birds in the Collection of the Leland Stanford Junior 

 University. By Joseph Grinnell. The Condor, Vol. Ill, No. i, Jan. 15, 1901, 

 pp. 19-23. 



^The Bird Book | By | Fannie Hardy Eckstorm | — | Boston, U. S. A. | 

 D. C. Heath & Co., Publishers. | 1901. — Sm. 8vo., pp. xii + 276, with 26 pU. 

 and 30 text figures. Price, 60 cents. 



