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for the Museum in Nicaragua. In the West Indies, Haiti and San Domingo 

 have been the center of attraction. W. L. Abbott, Rollo H. Beck, and 

 Paul Bartsch visited the island at different times and each secured some 

 remarkable birds or made substantial additions to our knowledge of the 

 local avifauna. In South America Beebe spent some time at the tropical 

 laboratory near Georgetown, British Guiana, and Beck returned from 

 southern Patagonia with rich collections of sea birds. From the Orient the 

 American Museum Expedition to China, Yunnan, and northern India in 

 charge of Roy C. Andrews returned after successfully completing its field 

 work, and from Celebes, H. C. Raven sent some valuable collections of 

 birds to the U. S. National Museum. 



In the United States the work of the Biological Survey has been 

 carried on with the usual activity in a number of States. In the south 

 A. H. Howell continued his field studies of the birds of Alabama and 

 Francis Harper visited the Okefinokee Swamp in Georgia and the everglade 

 region in Florida. In the west H. H. T. Jackson began work on a biological 

 survey of Wisconsin and H. C. Oberholser investigated the breeding ground 

 of waterfowl in North Dakota. In Montana E. A. Preble collected in the 

 southeastern part of the state south of the Northern Pacific Railroad, 

 and Mr. & Mrs. Vernon Bailey spent some weeks studying the birds of the 

 Glacier National Park and collected material for a report to be issued in 

 cooperation with the National Park Service. In the Northwest preliminary 

 work on a biological survey of Washington was begun by W. P. Taylor 

 and in the southwest E. A. Goldman collected in northern Arizona south 

 of the Grand Canyon. 



Economic Ornithology. Studies of the food of birds, especially ducks, and 

 of methods of attracting birds have been continued by W. L. McAtee, a new 

 study of the crow has been made by E. R. Kalmbach and the European 

 Starling has been the subject of an investigation by Kalmbach and 

 Gabrielson. A report on the game birds of California by Grinnell, Bryant 

 and Storer has been completed and is now in press. In the field of experi- 

 mentation much work has been done by H. K. Job at Amston,'Conn., at 

 the Bird Experiment Station of the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies. 



Literature. The publications of the year, while perhaps fewer in number 

 than those for some years immediately preceding the war, include a number 

 of important titles. Among general works should be mentioned the annual 

 volume of the 'Zoological Record' for 1915 containing 934 titles on birds, 

 Ridgway's 'Birds of North and Middle America,' Vol. VIII, devoted to 

 Shorebirds, Gulls and Terns (the manuscript has been completed but not 

 printed), Mathews' great work on the 'Birds of Australia' of which five 

 parts of Vol. VI have recently appeared, the seventh edition of Mrs. 

 Bailey's 'Handbook of the Birds of the Western United States,' and a 

 popular work in three volumes on the 'Birds of America,' edited by T. 

 Gilbert Pearson and published in the Nature Lovers' Library. Of the 

 many faunal publications, Chapman's comprehensive volume on the ' Dis- 



