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Recent Literature. q" 



In the July-August issue of ' The Condor ' (pp. 92, 93) he describes a new 

 Song Sparrow as Melospiza melodia sanct(^criicis, with the range: "Along 

 the fresh-water streams heading in the Santa Cruz Mountain region, from 

 San Francisco south to Monterey Bay." He comments at some length on 

 the intricacies of the Song Sparrow problem in California, which he 

 rightly considers is as yet far from settled. — J. A. A. 



Babson's Birds of Princeton, New Jersey. ^ — The area embraced in the 

 present list is included within "an eight mile radius "of Princeton, and com- 

 prises the greater part of Mercer County and the southern portions of 

 Middlesex and Somerset Counties. The introduction defines the bound- 

 aries of the region, describes its physical characteristics, and summarizes 

 its principal ornithological features, including a classification of the spe- 

 cies in accordance with the nature of their occurrence, they being grouped 

 into the following eight categories : Permanent Residents, Summer Resi- 

 dents, Summer Visitants, Winter Residents, Winter Visitants, Regular 

 Transients, Irregular Transients, and Accidental Visitors. There is in 

 addition a list of the species found breeding, with the earliest dates at 

 which nests containing eggs have been found. 



This is followed by the 'Annotated List of Birds,' numbering 230 spe- 

 cies. The arrangement and nomenclature is that of the A. O. U. Check- 

 List. The annotations are satisfactorily full and explicit, the list having 

 been evidently compiled with great care and discrimination. The list is 

 based primarily on the author's own observations, which cover four years, 

 but indebtedness is acknowledged to Dr. Marcus Stultz Farr, Dr. Alexander 

 Hamilton Phillips, and Mr. W. E. D. Scott, all of Princeton University, 

 and to whom frequent reference is made in the annotations. The list is 

 exceptionally free from typographical errors, and is tastefully printed, and 

 forms in every way a most creditable initial number of the ' Bulletin ' of a 

 ' Bird Club' from which much good work may be confidently expected. — 

 J. A. A. 



Selous's ' Bird Watching' ^ — As the author explains, this work, "with 

 one or two insignificant exceptions," is a record of his own observations ; 

 "all that I have seen which I have included in this volume," he says, "was 

 noted down by me either just after it had taken place or whilst it actually 

 was taking place," much of it being transcripts from his note-books. 



1 The Birds of Princeton, New Jersey, and Vicinity. By William Arthur 

 Babson, B. S., Princeton University. Bulletin of the Bird Club of Princeton 

 University, Vol. I, No. i, pp. 7-82, Sept., 1901. 



" Bird Watching | By | Edmund Selous | [Vignette] London | J. M. Dent & 

 Co., Aldine House | 29 & 30 Bedford Street, W. C. | 1901 - — Svo, pp. xii -(- 

 347, 6 photogravure pll. and several text cuts. Price. $3.00. (Macmillan 

 Company, 66 Fifth Ave., New York.) 



