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however, is not perfectly proved, and there are indications, on the other 

 hand, that such tendencies may be a family or group habit." 



As Dr. Gill remarks, the subject is one respecting which much more 

 information is required before we can generalize with much degree of 

 certainty. Mr. Gurney has led the way, with his admirable collection of 

 facts, to which, it is to be hoped, many other data of similar character 

 will be soon added. — J. A. A. 



Kellogg and Others on Mallophaga. — The July number of 'The Auk' 

 (pp. 232-236) contained a paper ' On Some Parasites of Birds,' by Prof. 

 Vernon L. Kellogg of the Leland Stanford University. It may interest 

 some of the readers of 'The Auk ' to know that Prof. Kellogg and some 

 of his fellow workers in this field have recently published several papers 

 on the Mallophaga ' of some of our western American birds, forming the 

 third of a series of memoirs on this subject. 2 In this article of over 200 

 pages and sixteen plates, a large number of new species are described 

 and figured, and others listed, with their hosts, which latter number over 

 100 species, representing nearly every family of the North American 

 ornis. — J. A. A. 



Huntington's 'In Brush, Sedge, and Stubble.' — Since our former 

 notice of this work 3 in the January number of this Journal (atitea, p. 89) 

 Parts III to VII have been received, and fully warrant the praise bestowed 

 upon Parts I and II. As the general character of the work has been 

 already stated, it remains to add that Parts III and IV treat of the 

 'Grouse of the Woods and Mountain,' this subject being completed in 

 Part V, which includes also the Turkeys, and some of the Pheasants (the 

 species introduced into North America), the latter running over into 

 Part VI. This part begins (at p. 85) the account of the ' American Par- 

 tridges,' which also occupies the whole of Part VII. The text is a combin- 

 ation of ornithology and hunting experiences, and the illustrations are 

 equally varied. The ornithological part consists of photographs of 

 mounted specimens (often in series to show variations of plumage), of 



' ' New Mallophaga, III. Comprising Mallophaga from Birds of Panama 

 Baja California and Alaska, by Vernon L. Kellogg, Professor of Entomology 

 Leland Stanford Junior University. Mallophaga from Birds of California, 

 by Vernon L. Kellogg and Bertha L. Chapman. The Anatomy of the Mallo- 

 phaga, by Robert E. Snodgrass, Assistant in Entomology, Leland Stanford 

 Junior University. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, 

 Vol. VI, 1889, pp. 1-224, pll. i-xvi.=Contributions to Biology from the Hop- 

 kins Seaside Laboratory of the Leland Stanford Junior University, XIX. 



2 Nos. I and II, by Professor Kellogg, were published in 1S96. 



3 In Brush, Sedge, and Stubble, folio, Pts. III-VII, 1899. The Sportsman 

 Society, Cincinnati. 



