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National Parks — contain lists of birds. The list for Glacier Park, Mont., 

 published this year for the first time is by Mrs. Florence Merriam Bailey 

 and consists of brief notes on 184 species. Lack of space made it necessary 

 to condense the statements as much as possible and consequently less than 

 half a dozen lines are devoted to any one species. The list for Sequoia 

 Park, Calif., including also the neighboring General Grant Park was 

 prepared by the Superintendent, Walter Fry, and has been published each 

 year since 1912. It contains 182 species but only about 50 of them are 

 marked with an asterisk to indicate presence in General Grant Park. 

 Evidently much more work remains to be done on the birds of this park. 

 Moreover the notes are less than a line in length and are confined to mere 

 statements of the status of each bird as " common resident ' etc. The list 

 for the Yellowstone Park, Wyo., is the work of M. P. Skinner and appears 

 under his name for the first time, having been published anonymously in 

 1915, 1916 and 1917. It contains 194 species but the notes like those 

 of the Sequoia list state merely whether the species are residents, summer 

 residents, migrants, or occasional visitants. More space should be given 

 such lists so that notes of local interest can be included and exact dates and 

 localities given for species which occur irregularly or only occasionally. 



When it is recalled that Glacier Park is larger than the state of Rhode 

 Island, that the Yellowstone Park is two thirds the size of Connecticut, 

 and that these reservations are visited by thousands of tourists every year, 

 the importance of having complete and accurate lists of the birds can 

 hardly be overestimated. Similar lists should be published at an early date 

 for several of the other parks especially Crater Lake, Mount Rainier, 

 Rocky Mountain and Yosemite. — T. S. P. 



Economic Ornithology in Recent Entomological Publications.— 



A decrease in items includable under this heading is apparent and the 

 present fasciculus of papers noted is the whole fruit of more than six months 

 waiting. The articles relate to: 



The Rhinoceros beetle (Oryctes rhinoceros). This species kills annually 

 something more than one percent of the coconut trees of the Philippine 

 Islands entailing a yearly money loss of nearly three million dollars. The 

 natural enemies are few but among them are two birds, the Philippine 

 Crow (Corone filipina) and the common roller (Eurystomus orientalis). 1 

 Adults of the Rhinoceros beetles are of heavy build and from one and one 

 half to two inches in length and the larvae are even larger. It is to be in- 

 ferred therefore that the large size of the insect is an important factor in 

 limiting the number of its predatory enemies. 



The round-headed apple-tree borer (Saperda Candida). In the Ozark 

 region of Arkansas whole apple orchards have been abandoned because 

 of the destruction of trees by this pest. A single individual of the species 



1 Mackie, D. B. Oryctes rhinoceros in the Philippines. Philippine Agr. Rev. Vol. X, 

 Fourth Quarter 1917, p. 326. 



