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Proceedings of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club. — The 



present number of ' Cassinia' ^ forins voluine VII of the Proceedings of 

 the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, and consists as usual of papers 

 relating to the ornithology of Pennsylvania and New Jersey and an 

 abstract of the proceedings of the Club, published under the editorship of 

 Mr. Witmer Stone. The first article is an appreciative biographical 

 sketch of John Kirk Towensend, by Mr. Stone, with a portrait. Other 

 papers are : ' The Red-headed Woodpecker as a Pennsylvania and New 

 Jersey Bird,' by Spencer Trotter ; ' Notes on the Summer Birds of Lehigh 

 Gap, Pennsylvania,' by James A. G. Rehn, an annotated list of 50 

 species; ' Exit the Dickcissel — a Remarkable Case of Local Extinction,' 

 by Samuel N. Rhoads (noticed below, p. 401) ; ' Crow Roosts and Flight 

 Lines in Southeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey,' by Herbert L. 

 Coggins (with map) ; ' Water Birds of the Middle Delaware Valley,' by 

 Henry W. Fowler (notes on about 60 species); 'A Remarkable Night 

 Migration at Mt. Pocono, Pa.,' by William L. Baily; ' Repoi't on the 

 Spring Migration of 1903,' compiled by Witmer Stone; also 'Abstract of 

 the Proceedings' of the Club for 1903 ; ' City Ornithology,' ' Bird Club 

 Notes,' and list of officers and members. — J. A. A. 



Oddi's • Manuale d'Ornitologia Italiana.'- — In a compact volume 

 (5X3T in.) of about iioo pages Count Oddi has presented us with a most 

 excellent manual of Italian ornithology, fully up to the modern standard 

 of ornithological handbooks. It is profusely illustrated, some 400 text 

 cuts being from original designs made expressly for the work. About 

 125 pages treat of the generalities of the subject, as the external structure, 

 molt, migration, geographical distribution, nidification, classification, 

 etc., and form Part I; Part II, consisting of about 900 pages, and forming 

 the systematic part, gives descriptions and short biographies of the 473 

 species and subspecies constituting the Italian avifauna. The classifica- 

 tion is not modern, beginning with the ' Accipitres ' and ending with the 

 ' Pygopodes,' but the work aopears to have been prepared with care, and 

 must place Italian bird students under a debt of gratitude to its talented 

 author. — J. A. A. 



1 Cassinia, A Bird Annual. Proceedings of the Delaware Valley Ornitho- 

 logical Club of Philadelphia, 1903. Roy. 8vo. pp. 88, frontispiece, and 

 several half-tone plates and maps. 50 cents. 



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