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graphs. Similarity of structure in several important features is found 

 to be common to the Owls and Caprimulgi which are not met with in 

 any other groups. Whether or not the author's investigation will aid 

 those interested in aerial navigation, it forms an important contribution 

 to our knowledge of the structure of the flight feathers in birds. — J. A. A. 



Jacobs's West Virginia Bird Notes. — Number IV of Mr. Jacobs's 

 'Gleanings' 1 consists of a briefly annotated list of the summer birds of 

 Monongalia County, West Virginia. As the list, numbering 51 species, 

 is based on observations made June 1, 1895, it is a good record for a 

 single day's work. The list is followed by a few supplementary notes 

 made on June 19 of the same year, and on August 21-23, 1S97, which in- 

 clude a number of species not given in the formal list. — J. A. A. 



Howe's 'Fifty Common Birds of Vermont.' — -This brochure of 92 

 pages 2 "has been written for the purpose of creating among teachers and 

 school children of our State a greater and a deeper love for Vermont 

 birds." It is evidently well adapted to this end. Brief descriptions are 

 given of fifty of the more common species met with in Vermont, with 

 such further comment as should render them easily recognizable, aided 

 by a text figure of each species, usually from photographs of mounted 

 birds. Unfortunately some of them were taken from rather unsightly 

 specimens. An appropriate introduction precedes the general text, 

 which is followed by lists of birds noted by different observers at several 

 localities, the species being given under their common English names. 

 A line to each is sufficient, by use of abbreviations, to indicate the season, 

 relative abundance, and date of earliest arrival. These lists are .■■ Birds of 

 Brattleboro and vicinity, by Mrs. Elizabeth B.Davenport; birds about 

 St. Johnsbury, compiled by Miss Isabel M. Paddock : birds of Benning- 

 ton and vicinity, by Dr. and Mrs. L. H. Ross; birds of Rutland County, 

 by G. II. Ross; migration list of birds for Bristol County and vicinity, 

 by A. C. Dike; also a nominal list of the birds of Vermont, based on 



1 Gleanings IV. | Some notes | on the Summer Birds | of | Monongalia 

 County, I West Virginia. | — | Observations made near | Blacksville and 

 Morgantown and along | the Monongahela River | — | By | J. Warren 

 Jacobs, Waynesburg, Pa. | — | [905 | Independent Printing Co. — Svo, pp. 

 11 and frontispiece. 15 cents. 



2 Fifty Common Birds of Vermont. By Carlton Dexter Howe, Principal 

 of the Essex Junction High School, President of the Aududon Society of 

 Vermont. == Circulars of Educational Information, No. XVIII. Prepared 

 for Teachers and School Officers. Issued by the Department of Education, 

 State of Vermont. Montpelier, 1905. 8vo, pp. 92, with 50 text figures. 



