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than 50,000 birds are there slaughtered as a sacrifice to the cruel goddess 

 of fashion." Their method of prosecuting the work is described in detail. 

 Also, "the story of the Marcus Island colony of Goonies (Diomedea 

 immutabilii) is one of death and extermination." Disappointed in being 

 unable "to find guano by their crude methods," the Japanese developed a 

 scheme to make a marketable commodity of the Goonies, by killing them 

 and boiling them down in great kettles to form a fertilizer which thev 

 shipped to Japan, saving, however, the long wing quills to sell as 'eagle 

 feathers' for the decoration of women's hats, and the breast feathers were 

 "plucked off and sold by the pound." Under this treatment the colony 

 has greatly dwindled, and in 1902 the birds were onlv killed for their 

 feathers. 



Mr. Bryan's extended notes on the habits of a number of the species of 

 birds are of especial interest and value. Besides two species of reptiles, 

 a considerable number of crustaceans, and a large collection of mollusks, 

 he secured some 60 species of fishes, a number of which proved new to 

 science. His brief stay at Marcus Island has thus not onlv for the first 

 time made the island really known to the world, but has given us a fair 

 conception of its fauna and flora. — J. A. A. 



Macoun's Catalogue of Canadian Birds, Part III. 1 — The publication 

 of Part III completes this important work, forming a volume of about 

 770 pages, and constituting the most extensive and valuable single con- 

 tribution to Canadian Ornithology since the publication of the bird vol- 

 ume of the 'Fauna Boreali-Americana,' seventy-five years ago. We have 

 so fully noted the character and scope of this work in our notices of 

 Parts I and II (Pt. I, A.uk, XVII, 1900, pp. 394, 395 ; Pt. II, Auk, XX, 

 1903, p. 441) that there is little new to say of it beyond the announce- 

 ment of its completion. As already said, the work forms a compendium 

 of the previously published information regarding the range and breed- 

 ing areas of all the species and subspecies of birds known to occur in 

 North America north of the United States, including those of Greenland 

 and Alaska as well as those of Canada, supplemented by a large amount 

 of hitherto unpublished material gathered by members of the Canadian 

 Geological Survey, including contributions from a large number of trust- 

 worthy correspondents. The authorities are given for all the statements 

 made respecting the manner of occurrence of all of the forms included 



'Geological Survey of Canada | Robert Bell, M. D., Sc. D., (Cantab.,) 

 LL. 1)., F.R. S. I — I Catalogue | of | Canadian Birds | — | Part III | Spar- 

 rows, Swallows, Vireos, Warblers, | Wrens, Titmice and Thrushes. | Includ- 

 ing the Order: | Passeres after Icteridaj | — | By | John Macoun, M. A., F. R. 

 S. C. I Naturalist to the Geological Survey of Canada. | [Vignette.] Ottawa: | 

 Printed by S. E. Dawson, Printer to the King's Most | Excellent Majesty 

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