150 Recent Literature. Ljan. 



borealis, identified by Atkinson from the length of a wing which he saw but 

 the dimensions of which are not given; and Clangula islandica entered on 

 the basis of a specimen reported by Cairns although another specimen ob- 

 tained and identified by the same collector proved to be C. c. americana. 

 There are also a few statements that have evidently been made on very 

 questionable authority and had better have been omitted, as that regarding 

 the breeding of the Bobolink in Louisiana and Florida. 



Mr. Bruce Horsfall has contributed twenty-three of the color plates 

 and some of them are among the best of his ornithological illustrations. 

 Others are poor; the figure of the Yellow-throated Warbler being hopelessly 

 out of proportion to its surroundings while the Fox and White-throated 

 Sparrow are noticeably stiff. The other colored plate, that of the Swallow- 

 tailed Kite, and 275 text figures mostly of the heads of the birds are by 

 Brasher, although the fact is not mentioned anywhere in the volume. The 

 text figures are very useful as a means of identification and are very well 

 done with a few exceptions. In the Herring Gull the color is very mislead- 

 ing the back being no lighter than the lower parts. 



The bibliography is introduced with a rather unfortunate statement to 

 the effect that it includes " all known papers containing records of birds 

 or their eggs from North Carolina." Most bibliographers would be chary 

 of making such a claim and upon turning over a small collection of separata 

 on the birds of the State which happens to be at hand we find one that has 

 escaped the compiler. It is by C. J. Pennock, ' Bird Notes from Pinehurst, 

 North Carolina ' published in the ' Wilson Bulletin,' No. 74, and is an 

 annotated list of 67 species containing some records that might well have 

 been included in the State report. There is also an account of Swans on 

 Currituck sound from ' Forest and Stream ' for April, 18, 1916, which has 

 been overlooked and there are doubtless other North Carolina notes in the 

 same journal. A note on a curious hybrid duck (Mallard and Green-winged 

 Teal) from North Carolina in ' The Auk ' for 1903 would seem worthy of 

 mention but it has apparently also been overlooked by the authors. For 

 the general purposes of such a work however, the bibliography is satis- 

 factory. 



The names of the authors of this volume have so long been identified with 

 North Carolina ornithology that it is a gratification to find the results 

 of their labors preserved for future generations in such satisfactory form — 

 a gratification that they no doubt share equally with the general public. 

 Let us hope that this publication may prove the forerunner and model for 

 State bird reports for some of the other southern commonwealths which 

 have as yet issued no works of this kind. — W. S. 



Hine on Birds of the Katmai Region, Alaska. 1 — In this paper, No. X 

 of the scientific results of the Katmai Expedition of the National Geographic 



1 Birds of the Katmai Region. By James S. Hine. The Ohio Journal of Science, June 

 1919. pp. 475-486. 



