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of which seem worthy of mention, while the recent capture of the Red 

 Phalarope (' Auk,' 1919, p. 419) was of course, too late for inclusion. The 

 omission of the Gray-cheeked Thrush from the main list is surprising as it 

 is far more common in eastern Pennsylvania than the Bicknell's and nearly 

 or quite as abundant as the Olive-back. There are a number of Chester 

 County specimens of the Gray-cheek in the collection of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Mr. Burns' summary of our knowledge of the ornithology of Chester 

 County emphasizes the fact that it is still limited to the southern and 

 eastern portions and that we have no intimate or detailed information on 

 the bird life of the northern townships. It is regrettable that this region 

 could not have been carefully explored and the results of the investigation 

 included in the present volume, thus making an important addition to the 

 historic work of the earlier writers. 



The little book is well printed and attractively gotten up but we regret 

 to say lacks the supervision of a competent editor, with the result that no 

 less than 24 of the scientific names are misspelled, while those given for 

 the Night Heron and Creeper are the names of the European races and not 

 the American. The text also is often somewhat faulty in construction and 

 occasionally ungrammatical. These faults however, do not detract from 

 the ornithological value of the work but are regrettable as they could have 

 been so easily eliminated and the literary character of the book been thus 

 made fully equal to the scientific. — W. S. 



Mailliard's ' Notes on the Avifauna of the Inner Coast Range of 

 California.' 1 — In this paper, Mr. Mailliard describes the results of field 

 work carried on by himself and his assistant, Mr. Luther Little, from Mt. 

 St. Helena, Napa County, to Mt. Sanhedrin, Mendocino County, Cali- 

 fornia, during 1919. The physical features of the various localities are 

 described and lists of the species observed are given, while the details of 

 distribution are considered at length and much information is presented on 

 the habits of several species. 



Many of the localities being nearly upon the dividing line between the 

 humid coast environment and the dry interior, present peculiarly interest- 

 ing conditions, and Mr. Mailliard has made a valuable contribution to the 

 zoogeography of the region. A table at the end of the paper shows at a 

 glance the species seen and taken at each of the nine stations where stops 

 were made. — W. S. 



Bailey's ' The Raptorial Birds cf Iowa.' 2 — At the time of his death 

 the late Dr. Bert Heald Bailey had nearly completed a report on the birds 



1 Notes on the Avifauna of the Inner Coast Range of California. By Joseph Mailliard 

 Proc. Calif. Acad. Sciences. Fourth Series, Vol. IX, No. 10, pp. 273-296. November 

 25, 1919. 



2 The Raptorial Birds of Iowa. Bulletin No. 0, Iowa Geological Survey. By Bert 

 Heald Bailey, M. S., M. D. Des Moines, 1918. pp. 1-238, figs. 93. [Received Novem- 

 ber, 1919.] 



