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A New Feeding Slab. By W. E. Saunders. — A slab that English Spar- 

 rows will not frequent. 



The articles on migration and plumages treat of the Tanagers with a 

 colored plate by Fuertes, in which by the way, the female and winter males 

 of the Scarlet Tanager are altogether too yellow. The usual Christmas 

 lists cover twenty-six pages, while exactly half of the magazine is devoted 

 to reports of Audubon Societies. 



The Condor. XX, No. 1. January-February, 1918. 



The Barrow Golden-eye in the Okanagan Valley, B. C. By J. A. 

 Monroe. 



The Destruction of Birds at the Lighthouses on the Coast of California. 

 By W. A. Squires and H. E. Hanson. 



Early Autumn Birds in Yosemite Valley. By Joseph Mailliard. 



A Note on the Tracheal Air-sac in the Ruddy Duck. By Alexander Wet- 

 more. 



Notes on Some Birds from Central Arizona. By H. S. Swarth. 



A Return to the Dakota Lake Region. By Florence Merriam Bailey. 



Breeding Birds of Bexar County, Texas. By R. W. Quillin and Ridley 

 Holleman. 



Wilson Bulletin. XXIX, No. 4. December, 1917. 



A Day with the Birds of a Hoosier Swamp. By B. W. Evermann. 



Keeping Field Records. By A. F. Gainer. 



The Saving of a Pond and the Resulting Bird List. By Howard C. 

 Brown. 



Winter Birds about Washington, D. C. By W. L. McAtee, E. A. 

 Preble and Alexander Wetmore. — Forty-eight species seen on December 

 30, 1916. 



Another Unusual Laying of the Flicker. By B. R. Bales. — Thirty-nine 

 eggs in the same number of days. 



The Oologist. XXXV, No. 1. January, 1918. 



Ivory-billed Woodpecker not Extinct. By J. B. Ellis. One pair seen 

 at Everglade, Florida in the spring of 1917. 



The Buffle-head in the Okanagan Valley, B. C. By J. A. Monroe. 



The Ibis. X Series, VI, No. 1. January, 1918. 



Notes on Embernagra platensis and its Allies, with the Description of a 

 new Species. By Charles Chubb. — Embernagra gossei (p. 9), Lujan, 

 Mendoza, Argentina. 



Index-List of the Coloured Plates of Birds in ' The Ibis,' 1859 to 1917. 

 By Dr. E. Hopkinson. 



Notes on the Nidification of Some Indian Falconidse. The Genera 

 Ictincetus and Microhierax. By E. C. Stuart Baker. 



Erythrism in Birds' Eggs. By E. C. Stuart Baker. 



On Birds Recently Collected in Siam. Part I. Phasianidse — Eury- 

 lsemidae. By C. Boden Kloss. — Sixteen new species and subspecies are 

 described. 



The Platycercine Parrots of Australia: A Study in Colour-change. By 

 Gregory M. Mathews. 



